[Bug] [jobs.py] Enhance the code to catch a UnicodeDecodeError and provide reasonable message

[ddimatos]

Is there an existing issue for this?

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Bug description

The module utils jobs.py currently relies on ZOAU for its job processing, if a non-printable char is encountered it will break the Ansible module. This issue will add a try/expect clause around the code that could cause a module failure responding with a reasonable message to the user.

The related issues for this error are:

• [Bug] [zos_job_submit] 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xdd error on zos_job_submit module #677
• [Bug] zos_operator_action_query reported UnicodeDecodeError when the outstanding messages contain special characters #776
• [Bug] [zos_job_submit] 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xbb in position 0: invalid start byte" #972
• [Enabler] Support non-printable UTF-8 chars  #1255

The logical place for this change is here:

  tmpcont = read_output(
       entry.id, single_dd["stepname"], single_dd["dataset"])

try:
tmpcont = read_output(
entry.id, single_dd["stepname"], single_dd["dataset"])
except UnicodeDecodeError as exc:
# DO something here, look at exc, see whats in it, not sure
# what we can do here at this point, read_output will likely
# only have a partial buffer read up to where the first non-printable
# was encountered.

IBM z/OS Ansible core Version

v1.8.0 (default)

IBM Z Open Automation Utilities

v1.2.5 (default)

IBM Enterprise Python

v3.11.x (default)

ansible-version

v2.16.x (default)

z/OS version

v2.5 (default)

Ansible module

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Playbook verbosity output.

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Ansible configuration.

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Contents of the inventory

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Contents of group_vars or host_vars

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