release-v1.3.0-beta.1

Version 1.3.0-beta.1

Notes

• Update recommended

• New module

  • ims_ddl

• Bug fixes and enhancements

  • Added new member dfsdf_member in the ims_catalog_populate and ims_catalog_purge modules.
    The DFSDFxxx member is in the IMS.PROCLIB data set where the CATALOG section is defined.

• Documentation updates

  • Minor updates to compression parameter in the ims_acbgen module where PRECOMP,POSTCOMP, in any combination, cause the required in-place compression.
    The choices are not mutually exclusive -- PRECOMP or POSTCOMP or PRECOMP,POSTCOMP can be used.

• Improved test and ansible-sanity coverage.

• Subset of the test cases were updated to support for Ansible 2.15.

• Additional support for test cases in ims_catalog_populate and ims_catalog_purge modules to support dfsdf_member parameter.

• This update also has updated prerequisites for Ansible 2.14 or newer and ZOAU 1.2.2 or newer but prior to version 1.3.

Availability

• Galaxy
• Github

Reference

• Supported by IBM z/OS core collection v1.5.0 or later
• Supported by IBM Z Open Enterprise Python for z/OS: 3.9 or later
• Supported by IBM Z Open Automation Utilities 1.2.2 or later (but prior to 1.3)
• Supported by z/OS V2R4
• The z/OS® shell

release-v1.2.0

Version 1.2.0

Notes

• Update recommended

• Bug fixes and enhancements

  • No changes from version 1.2.0-beta.2 release. Collection promoted to certified content with version 1.2.0.

Availability

• Galaxy
• Github

Reference

• Supported by IBM z/OS core collection v1.4.0 or later
• Supported by IBM Z Open Enterprise Python for z/OS 3.9 - 3.11
• Supported by IBM Z Open Automation Utilities 1.1.1 - 1.2.2
• Supported by z/OS V2R3
• The z/OS® shell

release-v1.2.0-beta.2

Version 1.2.0-beta.2

Notes

• Update recommended

• Bug fixes and enhancements

  • Fixed sanity test error for dbdgen and psbgen modules after the member_list argument type was updated to raw from list since the element type can either be str or key:value pair.
  • DBDGEN sample2 testcase file was deleted since it was a duplicate and contained an invalid testcase.
  • This update also has updated prerequisites for Ansible 2.11 and ZOAU 1.1.1.

Availability

• Galaxy
• GitHub

Reference

• Supported by IBM z/OS core collection v1.4.0 or later
• Supported by IBM Z Open Enterprise Python for z/OS: v3.8, v3.9
• Supported by IBM Z Open Automation Utilities 1.1.1 PTF
• Supported by z/OS V2R3
• The z/OS® shell

release-v1.2.0-beta.1

Version 1.2.0-beta.1

Notes

• Update recommended
• Added support for Ansible 4 (ansible-core 2.11)
• Fixed bug in ims_catalog_populate where check_timestamp: false would cause module call to return an IMS error. See #85 for details.
• Improved JSON keys for ims_command_utils to replace whitespaces with underscores to help make the output more parsable. See #81 for details.
• This update also has updated prerequisites for Ansible 2.11 and ZOAU 1.1.0 or later.

Availability

• Galaxy
• GitHub

Reference

• Supported by IBM z/OS core collection v1.3.0 or later
• Supported by IBM Z Open Enterprise Python for z/OS: 3.8.2 or later
• Supported by IBM Z Open Automation Utilities 1.1.0 PTF or later
• Supported by z/OS V2R3
• The z/OS® shell

release-v1.1.0

Version 1.1.0

Notes

• Update recommended

• Module changes

  • ims_catalog_populate - improved pep8 and Ansible Sanity compliance
  • ims_catalog_purge - improved pep8 and Ansible Sanity compliance
  • ims_dbrc - improved pep8 and Ansible Sanity compliance
  • ims_dbd_gen - added usage of Python tempdir libraries instead of fixed string
  • ims_psb_gen - added usage of Python tempdir libraries instead of fixed string

• Documentation updates

• Improved test and security coverage

Availability

• Automation Hub
• Galaxy
• GitHub

Reference

• Supported by IBM z/OS core collection v1.2.1
• Supported by IBM Z Open Enterprise SDK for Python for z/OS: 3.8.2 or later
• Supported by IBM Z Open Automation Utilities 1.0.3 PTF UI70435
• Supported by z/OS V2R3
• The z/OS® shell

release-v1.1.0-beta.1

Version 1.1.0-beta.1

Notes

• Update recommended

• New modules

  • ims_catalog_populate
  • ims_catalog_purge
  • ims_dbrc

• Documentation

  • Update documentation in support of centralized content.

• Updated sample playbook

Availability

• Galaxy
• GitHub

Reference

• Supported by IBM z/OS core collection v1.2.0-beta.1 or later
• Supported by IBM Z Open Enterprise Python for z/OS: 3.8.2 or later
• Supported by IBM Z Open Automation Utilities 1.0.3 PTF UI70435 or later
• Supported by z/OS V2R3
• The z/OS® shell

release-v1.0.1

Version 1.0.1

Notes

• Update recommended

  • ims_acb_gen
  • ims_dbd_gen
  • ims_psb_gen
  • ims_command

• Documentation updates

• Improved test and security coverage

Availability

• Automation Hub
• Galaxy
• GitHub

Reference

• Supported by IBM z/OS core collection v1.2.1 or later
• Supported by IBM Z Open Enterprise Python for z/OS: 3.8.2 or later
• Supported by IBM Z Open Automation Utilities 1.0.3 PTF UI70435 or later
• Supported by z/OS V2R3
• The z/OS® shell

release-v1.0.0-beta3

Notes

• Update recommended
• Enhancement
  • ims_acb_gen
  • ims_dbd_gen
  • ims_psb_gen
• Documentation updates
• Updated sample playbook

Availability

• Galaxy
• GitHub

Reference

• Supported by IBM z/OS core collection v1.2.0-beta.1 or later
• Supported by IBM Z Open Enterprise Python for z/OS: 3.8.2 or later
• Supported by IBM Z Open Automation Utilities 1.0.3 PTF UI70435 or later
• Supported by z/OS V2R3
• The z/OS® shell

release-v1.0.0-beta2

• Notes

  • Update recommended
  • New modules
    • ims_acb_gen
  • Bug fixes
  • Documentation updates
  • Updated sample playbook

• Availability

  • Galaxy
  • GitHub

Reference

• Supported by IBM z/OS core collection 1.0.0 or later

release-v1.0.0-beta1

Initial beta release of IBM z/OS IMS collection, referred to as ibm_zos_ims which is part of the broader offering Red Hat® Ansible Certified Content for IBM Z.

Modules

• ims_dbd_gen
• ims_psb_gen
• ims_command