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add section for zos as control node
Signed-off-by: Ketan Kelkar <[email protected]>
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docs/docsite/rst/os_guide/intro_zos.rst

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On many z/OS systems, the default encoding for untagged files is EBCDIC.
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This variation in default settings can easily lead to mis-interpreting data using the the wrong encoding,
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whether that's failing to auto convert EBCDIC to UTF-8 or erroneously attempting to auto convert data that is already in UTF-8.
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.. _zos_as_control_node:
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Using z/OS as a Control Node
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.. Dan blog- https://community.ibm.com/community/user/ibmz-and-linuxone/blogs/daniel-jast1/2023/12/07/red-hat-aap-on-ibm-z-and-linuxone?communityKey=ce54fe94-0145-4832-a0ef-4ea81d6062cc
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.. RH blog- https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/red-hat-ansible-automation-platform-now-available-on-ibm
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The z/OS operating system currently cannot be configured to run as an Ansible control node.
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Despite being POSIX-compliant, the UNIX Systems Services interface also cannot be configured to run as an Ansible control node.
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There are some options available on the IBM Z platform:
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* IBM z/OS Container Extensions (zCX)
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* Open Shift Containers
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* Linux on IBM Z
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docs/docsite/rst/reference_appendices/faq.rst

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Running on z/OS
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* Generally speaking, z/OS cannot be used as an Ansible control node. For more details, see :ref:`zos_as_control_node`.
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* When the path to the python interpreter is not found in the default location on the target host, the following error may result:
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.. error::

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