Troubleshooting

Problems

I am getting the following error: Data could not be sent to remote host. Make sure this host can be reached over ssh: Permission denied (publickey,password)

Reason: Ansible does not have a method for authentication while connecting to the system using SSH.

Action: If your playbook uses only modules like Broadcom Ansible Collections for Mainframe, that connect to z/OS using APIs and do not gather facts from z/OS system, specify gather_facts: false in your playbook. Otherwise you need to setup a method that enables you to authenticate with SSH. Review information in Connection methods and details.

Diagnostics

When the Broadcom Ansible Collections for Mainframe do not work as expected, you might need to provide more information to support.

You can configure Ansible commands like ansible or ansible-playbook to provide more verbose messages, using the following options:

• -vv to display information about the activity of Ansible and modules.

• -vvvv to display internal details about work of the modules (output of commands, internal variables, and such). Sensitive information, such as user IDs and passwords, is hidden.

Special module arguments

_skip_parameter_checks

If you set this argument to True`, it disables argument checks that are done by Broadcom Ansible Collections for Mainframe. This can help if a check is too rigid and does not allow a value that should be accepted.