The IBM® z/OS® core collection, also represented as ibm_zos_core in this document, is part of the broader initiative to bring Ansible Automation to IBM Z® through the offering Red Hat® Ansible Certified Content for IBM Z®. The IBM z/OS core collection supports automation tasks such as creating data sets, submitting jobs, querying jobs, retrieving job output, encoding data, fetching data sets, copying data sets, executing operator commands, executing TSO commands, ping, querying operator actions, APF authorizing libraries, editing textual data in data sets or Unix System Services files, finding data sets, backing up and restoring data sets and volumes, mounting file systems, running z/OS programs without JCL, running local and remote scripts on z/OS, initializing volumes, archiving, unarchiving and templating with Jinja.
Red Hat® Ansible Certified Content for IBM Z provides the ability to connect IBM Z® to clients' wider enterprise automation strategy through the Ansible Automation Platform ecosystem. This enables development and operations automation on Z through a seamless, unified workflow orchestration with configuration management, provisioning, and application deployment in one easy-to-use platform.
The IBM z/OS core collection is following the Red Hat® Ansible Certified Content for IBM Z® method of distributing content. Collections will be developed in the open, and when content is ready for use, it is released to Ansible Galaxy for community adoption. Once contributors review community usage, feedback, and are satisfied with the content published, the collection will then be released to Ansible Automation Hub as certified and IBM supported for Red Hat® Ansible Automation Platform subscribers.
For guides and reference, please review the documentation.
The IBM z/OS core collection, includes connection plugins, action plugins, modules, filters, and ansible-doc to automate tasks on z/OS.
This collection has been tested against Ansible Core versions >=2.14. The Ansible Core versions supported for this collection align to the ansible-core support matrix. Review the Ansible community changelogs for corresponding Ansible community packages and ansible-core.
For Ansible Automation Platform (AAP) users, review the Ansible Automation Platform Certified Content and AAP Life Cycle for more more information on supported versions of Ansible.
This release of the IBM z/OS core collection requires the z/OS managed node have:
- z/OS V2R4 or later.
- z/OS shell.
- IBM Open Enterprise SDK for Python 3.9 - 3.11.
- IBM Z Open Automation Utilities 1.2.5 (or later) but prior to version 1.3.
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Some portions of this collection are licensed under GNU General Public License, Version 3.0, and other portions of this collection are licensed under Apache License, Version 2.0.
See individual files for applicable licenses.