How to put environment variables in a playbook

[ddimatos]

Sometimes you just want to quickly run a playbook pointing to z/OS and don't really want to create all the group_vars, host_vars , although using group_vars and host_vars is recommend because it makes your projects portable. So how do you do put environment vars for z/OS in your playbook? See the below example.

You will need to edit variable ZOAU and PYZ to correspond to your installation.

    ZOAU: "path/to/your/ZOAU/home"
    PYZ: "/path/to/python/home/up/to/pyz"

This is how it should look if you want to use environment vars in your playbook as opposed to using group_vars and host_vars.
For ZOAU version 1.3.0 or later, you must set the PYZ_VERSION, for versions older than 1.3.0, you can set it to an empty string, eg PYZ_VERSION="".

---
- hosts: zvm
  collections:
    - ibm.ibm_zos_core
  gather_facts: no
  vars:
    ZOAU: "path/to/your/ZOAU/home"
    PYZ: "/path/to/python/home/up/to/pyz"
    PYZ_VERSION: "for example, 3.12" 
    ansible_pipelining: yes
    ansible_python_interpreter: "{{ PYZ }}/bin/python3"
    ansible_scp_extra_args: "-O"

  environment:
    _BPXK_AUTOCVT: "ON"
    ZOAU_HOME: "{{ ZOAU }}"
    PYTHONPATH: "{{ ZOAU }}/lib/{{ PYZ_VERSION}}"
    LIBPATH: "{{ ZOAU }}/lib:{{ PYZ }}/lib:/lib:/usr/lib:."
    PATH: "{{ ZOAU }}/bin:{{ PYZ }}/bin:/bin:/var/bin"
    _CEE_RUNOPTS: "FILETAG(AUTOCVT,AUTOTAG) POSIX(ON)"
    _TAG_REDIR_ERR: "txt"
    _TAG_REDIR_IN: "txt"
    _TAG_REDIR_OUT: "txt"
    LANG: "C"
    PYTHONSTDINENCODING: "cp1047"

  tasks:
    - name: ZOAU Version
      ansible.builtin.shell: zoaversion
      register: result

    - name: ZOAU Version
      debug:
        var: result

    - name: Test copy
      zos_copy:
        src: your_source
        dest: your_dest
        ...........
        ...................