Specifies the name of a prepared statement or a statement name assigned in a PREPARE statement. A single set of dynamic SQL statements (PREPARE, DESCRIBE, EXECUTE, dynamic DECLARE CURSOR) can handle any number of dynamically executed statements. You can supply either a parameter or a compile-time statement name to identify the statement to be executed. 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. If you use parameters, statements that refer to the prepared statement (DESCRIBE, EXECUTE, DECLARE CURSOR) must also use those parameters instead of the explicit statement name.