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Status Future consideration
Workspace Red Hat Ansible Certified Content for IBM Z
Categories IBM z/OS Core collection
Created by Guest
Created on May 6, 2026

RELATED IDEAS

Enhance zos_copy Ansible module to create immutable load module copies

The zos_copy Ansible for IBM Z module uses the z/OS UNIX Shell `cp` utility to create a load module copy, even when the source data set and destination data set attributes are identical, the resulting load module copy is not identical to its source, this can be seen when using SuperC to compare the original and copy. This is because the `cp` command calls the binder each time, this IDEA is to request that the zos_copy module use IEBCOPY to create the load module copies such that the are then immutable. IEBCOPY when applied to the same use case does not invoke the binder and results in a exact replica. Please consider updating zos_copy to use IEBCOPY.

Idea priority High

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