Ketan Kelkar

I discovered that the encoding of the content that Ansible deals with doesn't seem to matter so much as related to the "non-utf8 char deprecation warning" as long as the...

- verbose output for `dd_output` ```sh TASK [Set facts] **************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************** task path: < ..path.. > ok: [zvm] => { "ansible_facts": { "DEFAULT_DATA_SET_NAME": "KETAN.ANSIBLE.TESTDS" }, "changed": false } TASK [mvs raw...

Turns out, the above is WRONG!! The order matters!! In the above playbook, the tasks calling `dd_output` were first and raised the deprecation warning while the tasks calling `dd_data_set` went...

The investigation for this item is ongoing (may break it out into a separate issue). I've been focusing on `zos_mvs_raw` and its output. I took a look at the `response_encoding`...

The points here have been reduced from 5 pts to 0 pts. Those 5 pts are captured in the issues listed below around exploring specific modules and use cases. As...

Many `ibm.ibm_zos_core` modules call the [AnsibleModule.run_command()](https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/2e60bef85587f88d1d851afea30e656f0253580f/lib/ansible/module_utils/basic.py#L1751) method to run commands on the remote z/OS system (eg mvscmd). The default “[error handler](https://docs.python.org/3/library/codecs.html#error-handlers)” for the run_command is set to “surrogate_or_strict”, but it...

here's how to build the docsite locally- https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/community/documentation_contributions.html

The bulk of the work (designing the new configuration choices) was completed March 26 ([see this commit](https://github.com/IBM/z_ansible_collections_samples/pull/246/commits/e2cc5bc300d4929df509b8622a0c29c5285cb0b8)). Note- the above PR was closed when the branch was renamed. The work...

since this work was mostly completed in q1, and what remains is only reviews and merging, I am closing this issue out for the sake of "housekeeping".