Need help with Stored Procedure

Chris Eaton gave an example of stored procedure transpose columns to rows
Here is an example of a rowtocol stored proc that takes a SQL statement as
the first paramter, a delimiter as the second parameter and the ouput (in the
3rd parameter) is the rows coverted to a column with the delimiter specified
used to separate the row values:

CREATE PROCEDURE rowtocol
(IN p_slct VARCHAR(4000), IN p_dlmtr VARCHAR(4000), OUT lc_str VARCHAR(4000))
LANGUAGE SQL
BEGIN
DECLARE SQLSTATE CHAR(5);
DECLARE lc_colval VARCHAR(4000);
DECLARE c_refcur INT;
DECLARE at_end INT DEFAULT 0;

DECLARE not_found CONDITION FOR SQLSTATE '02000';

DECLARE C1 CURSOR FOR S1;
DECLARE CONTINUE HANDLER FOR not_found SET at_end = 1;

PREPARE S1 FROM p_slct;

SET lc_str = '';
OPEN C1;
fetch_loop:
LOOP
FETCH C1 INTO lc_colval;
IF at_end = 1 THEN LEAVE fetch_loop;
END IF;
SET lc_str = lc_str || p_dlmtr || lc_colval;
END LOOP;
CLOSE C1;
END

When i try to use it
CALL ROWTOCOL('SELECT NAME, DOB FROM FAMILY',',');
i got the following error:
sqlcode: -440
The parameter mode (IN, OUT, or INOUT) is not valid for a parameter in
procedure.

How to fix my call?
Thank's in advance.

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> Chris Eaton gave an example of stored procedure transpose columns to rows
> Here is an example of a rowtocol stored proc that takes a SQL statement as
> the first paramter, a delimiter as the second parameter and the ouput (in
> the
> 3rd parameter) is the rows coverted to a column with the delimiter
> specified
> used to separate the row values:
>
> CREATE PROCEDURE rowtocol
> (IN p_slct VARCHAR(4000), IN p_dlmtr VARCHAR(4000), OUT lc_str
> VARCHAR(4000))
> LANGUAGE SQL
> BEGIN
> DECLARE SQLSTATE CHAR(5);
> DECLARE lc_colval VARCHAR(4000);
> DECLARE c_refcur INT;
> DECLARE at_end INT DEFAULT 0;
>
> DECLARE not_found CONDITION FOR SQLSTATE '02000';
>
> DECLARE C1 CURSOR FOR S1;
> DECLARE CONTINUE HANDLER FOR not_found SET at_end = 1;
>
> PREPARE S1 FROM p_slct;
>
> SET lc_str = '';
> OPEN C1;
> fetch_loop:
> LOOP
> FETCH C1 INTO lc_colval;
> IF at_end = 1 THEN LEAVE fetch_loop;
> END IF;
> SET lc_str = lc_str || p_dlmtr || lc_colval;
> END LOOP;
> CLOSE C1;
> END
>
> When i try to use it
> CALL ROWTOCOL('SELECT NAME, DOB FROM FAMILY',',');
> i got the following error:
> sqlcode: -440
> The parameter mode (IN, OUT, or INOUT) is not valid for a parameter in
> procedure.
>
> How to fix my call?
> Thank's in advance.

Try this:
CALL ROWTOCOL('SELECT NAME, DOB FROM FAMILY',''',?);

or this
CALL ROWTOCOL('SELECT NAME, DOB FROM FAMILY','@',?);