You've tripped over one of the limitations of for loops nested within parfor. This is described in the doc. The requirement is:
You must define the range of a for-loop nested in a parfor-loop by constant numbers or broadcast variables.
Unfortunately, even indexing a broadcast variable for the range of the for loop is not permitted, so what you need to do is pull out the elements of the size vector outside the loop like this:
function b = fixed(a)
[m,n] = size(a);
b=a;
parfor x=1:m
for y=1:n
b(x,y) = 5;
end
end
