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See Comment below from Mark Anderson -- he provides details about how to push the result to IFS.
Aaron, you can easily accomplish this by using a file reference variable.
A file reference variable lets you point to an IFS file.
There are examples of its use in the Knowledge Center, but here is a trivial example using your query:
EXEC SQL BEGIN DECLARE SECTION;
SQL TYPE IS BLOB_FILE h1;
short lobind;
EXEC SQL END DECLARE SECTION;
EXEC SQL INCLUDE SQLCA;
main(int argc)
{
lobind = 0;
h1.name_length= 6;
h1.file_options= SQL_FILE_OVERWRITE;
strcpy(h1.name,"/tmp/bootstrap.tar");
EXEC SQL SELECT SYSTOOLS.HTTPGETBLOB('http://ibm.domain.com/boostrap.tar', '')
INTO :h1:lobind
FROM SYSIBM.SYSDUMMY1;
}
You could create an external procedure that input the HTTPBLOB and file name to make it more generic then you would only need to CALL the procedure when you wanted to move the results of HTTPBLOB into IFS.