VMS Help CC, Messages, QUALFUNCRET  *Conan The Librarian (sorry for the slow response - running on an old VAX)

 Message        The return type of "<name>" is a qualified type.
                Type qualifiers have no meaning for function return
                values.

 Description    A type qualifier has been used as part of the type of
                a function return value.  The type qualifiers have no
                meaning for function return values.

 User Action    Remove the type qualifier.