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You are correct. Changing the Path Variable to varchar caused my program to execute successfully. Thanks for the information.
Db2 for i development team
IBM Power Systems Development
Does this not work for you?
**free
ctl-opt dftactgrp(*no);
ctl-opt main(main);
dcl-proc main;
dcl-s path varchar(50) inz('/tmp/test.txt');
dcl-s line varchar(50);
exec sql
select line
into :line
from table(qsys2.ifs_read(path_name => :path))
fetch first row only;
dsply line;
end-proc;