Error creating a procedure

Question

I'm trying to create a procedure where I pass in a cursor. I'm on Oracle 9i and SQL is not my main job, though I do a good bit of complex querying and reading SQL. The code below is simplified, but I am still receiving an error "PLS-00201: identifier 'TYPE' must be declared. I've tried several things and followed online examples of procedures, but I have not been able to make this work.
{code}
CREATE OR REPLACE procedure PERM.no_response_7days_inc
(sponsorship_cursor IN TYPE,
a_result OUT Number) IS
DeadLine_Days Number(3);
Date_Diff Number(3);
a_result Number (3);
begin
--sponsorship_cursor IS a_recordset;
a_result := 0;
-- do work with cursor information;
a_result := 1;
end;
{code}
thank you very much for your assistance.

Answer 1

Hi,
danielk wrote:
... When I do the code above, I am still receiving an error, though a different one, "PLS-00410: duplicate fields in RECORD,TABLE or argument list are not permitted".It sounds like there's a mistake in the calling procedure, where it's doing something like
SELECT  dummy
,       dummy
FROM    dual;which is legal in some contexts, but not in others.
Whenever you have a problem, post a complete test script that people can run to re-create the problem and test their ideas.