Identifies the prepared version of the SQL statement specified in the FROM clause. Depending on the type of SQL statement prepared, DESCRIBE, EXECUTE, and dynamic DECLARE CURSOR statements can refer to the statement name assigned in a PREPARE statement. You can supply either a parameter or a compile-time statement name. Specifying a parameter lets SQL supply identifiers to programs at run time. Use an integer parameter to contain the statement identifier returned by SQL, or a character string parameter to contain the name of the statement that you pass to SQL. A single set of dynamic SQL statements (PREPARE, DESCRIBE, EXECUTE, Extended Dynamic DECLARE CURSOR) can handle any number of dynamically executed statements. If you decide to use parameters, statements that refer to the prepared statement (DESCRIBE, EXECUTE, extended dynamic DECLARE CURSOR) must also use a parameter instead of the explicit statement name. See the DECLARE Dynamic_CURSOR statement for an example demonstrating the PREPARE statement used with a dynamic DECLARE CURSOR statement.