release-v.0.0.2

The Red Hat Ansible Certified Content for IBM Z core collection ibm_zos_core includes connection plugins, action plugins, modules, sample playbooks, and ansible-doc to automate tasks on Z.

Action

• normal: A fork of Ansible normal.py action plugin that is modified to allow a conditional shebang line in REXX modules.
• zos_job_submit: Used to submit a job from the controller and optionally monitor for completion.

Connection

• zos_ssh: Enables the Ansible controller to communicate to a Z target machine by using ssh with the added support to transfer ASCII as EBCDIC when transferring REXX modules. The connection plugin was forked from the Ansible ssh.py connection plugin.

Modules

• zos_data_set: Create, delete, and manage attributes for data sets.
• zos_job_query: Query Z for a list of jobs.
• zos_job_submit: Submit a job and optionally monitor for completion.
• zos_job_output: Capture the job output for a submitted job.

Changelog

• Includes updates to the REAMDE.md and included docs.

release-v.0.0.1

The Red Hat Ansible Certified Content for IBM Z core collection ibm_zos_core includes connection plugins, action plugins, modules, sample playbooks, and ansible-doc to automate tasks on Z.

Action

• normal: A fork of Ansible normal.py action plugin that is modified to allow a conditional shebang line in REXX modules.
• zos_job_submit: Used to submit a job from the controller and optionally monitor for completion.

Connection

• zos_ssh: Enables the Ansible controller to communicate to a Z target machine by using ssh with the added support to transfer ASCII as EBCDIC when transferring REXX modules. The connection plugin was forked from the Ansible ssh.py connection plugin.

Modules

• zos_data_set: Create, delete, and manage attributes for data sets.
• zos_job_query: Query Z for a list of jobs.
• zos_job_submit: Submit a job and optionally monitor for completion.
• zos_job_output: Capture the job output for a submitted job.