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ansible-doc: update faq to include common z/OS pitfalls (#18555) (#49504)

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* ansible-doc: update faq to include common z/OS pitfalls (#18555)
Co-Authored-By: gitaaron <aaron.surty@gmail.com>
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Aaron Surty 2018-12-21 14:50:30 -05:00 committed by Alicia Cozine
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@ -222,6 +222,29 @@ is likely the problem. There are several workarounds:
(bash, ksh, and zsh should also be POSIX compatible if you have any of those installed). (bash, ksh, and zsh should also be POSIX compatible if you have any of those installed).
Running on z/OS
---------------
There are a few common errors that one might run into when trying to execute Ansible on z/OS as a target.
* Version 2.7.6 of python for z/OS will not work with Ansible because it represents strings internally as EBCDIC.
To get around this limitation, download and install a later version of `python for z/OS <https://www.rocketsoftware.com/zos-open-source>`_ (2.7.13 or 3.6.1) that represents strings internally as ascii. Version 2.7.13 is verified to work.
.. error::
/usr/bin/python: EDC5129I No such file or directory
To fix this set the path to the python installation in your inventory like so::
zos1 ansible_python_interpreter=/usr/lpp/python/python-2017-04-12-py27/python27/bin/python
.. error::
EE3501S The module libpython2.7.so was not found.
On z/OS, you must execute python from gnu bash. If gnu bash is installed at ``/usr/lpp/bash``, you can fix this in your inventory by specifying an ``ansible_shell_executable``::
zos1 ansible_shell_executable=/usr/lpp/bash/bin/bash
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