I was just running an Ansible playbook that includes calling the power_aix_bootstrap role that's part of the ibm.power_aix collection. 

Under the covers it runs the dnf_installer.sh script.  It's failing after apparently successfully downloading dnf_bundle_aix_73.tar, even when I run the script outside of Ansible.

./dnf_installer.sh[70]: usage:  not found.
Attempting download of dnf_bundle_aix_73.tar ...
Saving to 'dnf_bundle_aix_73.tar'...
223 MB received in 49 seconds (4.55 MB/sec)
Failed to download dnf_bundle_aix_73.tar

Looking at the underlying code, I see:
    if LDR_CNTRL=MAXDATA=0x80000000@DSA /usr/opt/perl5/bin/lwp-download https://public.dhe.ibm.com/aix/freeSoftware/aixtoolbox/ezinstall/ppc/dnf_bundle_aix_
73.tar; then
        echo "Failed to download dnf_bundle_aix_73.tar"
        cd - >/dev/null 2>&1 || exit 1
        rm -rf "$tmppath"
        exit 1
    fi

That logic seems backwards to me. Basically to me it's saying if download successful; then say it failed and exit.  Given I'm hardly the first person to run this script, I'm apparently missing something.

Mark,

I think you can file the bug at https://github.com/IBM/ansible-power-aix.

But do you really need the role? The job done by the script can be done by Ansible:

    - name: Download Toolbox bundle
      ansible.builtin.get_url:
        url: "https://public.dhe.ibm.com/aix/freeSoftware/aixtoolbox/ezinstall/ppc/dnf_bundle_aix_73.tar"
        dest: "./dnf_bundle_aix_73.tar"
      delegate_to: localhost
      run_once: true

        - name: Copy the bundle to server
          ansible.builtin.raw: "scp {{ bundle_name }} {{ ansible_user }}@{{ inventory_hostname }}:"
          delegate_to: localhost

        - name: Create a temporary directory
          ansible.builtin.raw: "mkdir -p /tmp/dnf_install"

        - name: Unpack the bundle
          ansible.builtin.raw: "tar xf {{ bundle_name }} -C /tmp/dnf_install"

        - name: Install RPM packages
          ansible.builtin.raw: "cd /tmp/dnf_install && ./install_dnf.sh -y"
          become: true
          register: rpm_install

        - name: Show output
          ansible.builtin.debug:
            var: rpm_install.stdout_lines

Sorry, the formatting is wrong because this is part of another playbook with more checks and whistles. Of course, the script checks filesystem sizes and does some more jobs. Everything that you can incorporate into your playbook ;-)

The biggest disadvantage of the role is that it downloads the bundle from the Internet to every AIX server. There is no way to set the source of the bundle file. On AIX 7.3, there is no need for the role at all because Python is usually already installed in the standard installation unless you change it.

Thank you so much for the link.

    - name: Download Toolbox bundle      ansible.builtin.get_url:        url: "https://public.dhe.ibm.com/aix/freeSoftware/aixtoolbox/ezinstall/ppc/dnf_bundle_aix_73.tar"        dest: "./dnf_bundle_aix_73.tar"      delegate_to: localhost      run_once: true        - name: Copy the bundle to server          ansible.builtin.raw: "scp {{ bundle_name }} {{ ansible_user }}@{{ inventory_hostname }}:"          delegate_to: localhost        - name: Create a temporary directory          ansible.builtin.raw: "mkdir -p /tmp/dnf_install"        - name: Unpack the bundle          ansible.builtin.raw: "tar xf {{ bundle_name }} -C /tmp/dnf_install"        - name: Install RPM packages          ansible.builtin.raw: "cd /tmp/dnf_install && ./install_dnf.sh -y"          become: true          register: rpm_install        - name: Show output          ansible.builtin.debug:            var: rpm_install.stdout_lines

The issue might be with the script; the condition should be if ! *************.

# ./check.sh
+ /usr/opt/perl5/bin/lwp-download https://public.dhe.ibm.com/aix/freeSoftware/aixtoolbox/ezinstall/ppc/dnf_bundle_aix_73.tar
+ LDR_CNTRL=MAXDATA=0x80000000@DSA
Overwrite dnf_bundle_aix_73.tar? [y] y
223 MB received in 50 seconds (4.46 MB/sec)
# cat ./check.sh
set -x
if ! LDR_CNTRL=MAXDATA=0x80000000@DSA /usr/opt/perl5/bin/lwp-download https://public.dhe.ibm.com/aix/freeSoftware/aixtoolbox/ezinstall/ppc/dnf_bundle_aix_73.tar; then
    echo "Failed to download dnf_bundle_aix_73.tar"
    cd - >/dev/null 2>&1 || exit 1
    rm -rf "$tmppath"
    exit 1
fi
#

@Srikanth Thanneeru I completely concur. I made that change and moved on with my life. 
@Andrey Klyachkin I was wanted to make sure I wasn't going nuts before posting a bug report. Will do that now. As for using the role, figure that's what it's for! :)

I had the same issue, but now everything is good.  Thank you.