...along the embedded SQL path - Question and Comment

First I would like to thank everyone for the helpful suggestions, books, 
url's, etc.  They were all appreciated and certainly have helped answer some 
questions.

however I am having one slight problem, I figured I would try a simple count 
test and see what happens, but whenever I enter the /Exec SQL or /End-Exec I 
keep getting a compiler directive not recognized, ignored error.

Here is how I coded the lines:

0043.01 C/Exec SQL                                
0043.02 + SELECT COUNT(*) INTO :DEMO FROM IMPITN00
0043.03 C/End-Exec                                
0043.04 C                   EVAL      FLD01 = DEMO
0043.05 C                   EXFMT     MAIN        
0043.06 C                   EVAL      *INLR = *ON 
0043.07 C                   RETURN                

Any help would be appreciatd.

Douglas