Ansible for IBM Z
Ansible for IBM Z is a suite of collections designed to automate and manage IBM Z environments using Ansible, an open-source automation platform. It provides a wide range of Ansible collections that are developed by IBM and certified by Red Hat.
It enables development, operations and automation on z/OS, middleware products, and other IBM Z systems and resources. The collections in Ansible for IBM Z offer a seamless, unified workflow, orchestration with configuration management, provisioning, and application deployment in one easy-to-use platform.
The Ansible for IBM Z offerings are actively expanding to automate common configuration and management tasks for software in the broader IBM Z community.
Today, the available collections include:
With the IBM z/OS Core collection, you will be able to:
Submit and access output for batch jobs.
Create, edit, archive and unarchive data sets.
Run operator commands, REXX and shell scripts.
Initialize volumes.
Backup and restore data sets and volumes.
With the IBM z/OS IMS collection, you will be able to:
Generate IMS Database Descriptors (DBD).
Generate Program Specification Blocks (PSB).
Generate Application Control Blocks (ACB).
Run IMS type-1 commands.
Run IMS IMS type-2 commands.
With the IBM z/OS CICS collection, you will be able to:
Manage CICS resources.
Manage CICS definitions.
Provision CICS regions.
Deprovision CICS regions.
Start or stop a CICS region.
With the IBM z/OS Management Facility collection, you will be able to:
Create z/OSMF workflows.
Run z/OSMF workflows.
Delete z/OSMF workflows.
Provision and manage z/OS software.
Validate and provision security requirements.
With the IBM Z System Automation collection, you will be able to:
Create dynamic resources from a template.
Delete dynamic resources from a template.