[Epic] [community] [code] Add z/OS compatibility - ansible.builtin.blockinfile

[ketankelkar]

The `ansible.builtin.blockinfile module does not currently support file operations for files not encoded in UTF-8. This means that the module does not work for files encoded in EBCDIC. There is a mechanism available which automatically converts non-UTF-8 encoded files to UTF-8, but only when those target files are treated as text files (eg open('r') or open('rt')). The file conversion is not triggered if the target file is treated as binary (as is the case in today's community code)

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This epic tracks the effort to change the community code to inspect a z/OS UNIX file's extended attributes for tags (encoding info) and successfully execute the intended file operation.

The ansible.builtin.blockinfile module processes target files the same way as the ansible.builtin.lineinfile module. See the ansible.builtin.lineinfile epic:

• #1421

The items in this epic:

• #1425
• #1426
• #1427
• #1428
• #1429