diff --git a/hardening/host-os/ansible/main.fmf b/hardening/host-os/ansible/main.fmf
index ac6991f0..fb3fe9e6 100644
--- a/hardening/host-os/ansible/main.fmf
+++ b/hardening/host-os/ansible/main.fmf
@@ -12,6 +12,13 @@ recommend+:
 tag:
   - destructive
 adjust:
+  - when: distro == rhel-7 and arch == s390x or distro == rhel-7 and arch == ppc64
+    enabled: false
+    because: >
+        RHEL-7 has no EPEL for s390x/ppc64 and we need python3,
+        remove this once we drop support for RHEL-7, and fully remove
+        the machine-hardening tests from the General plan, as they are now
+        only running on RHEL-7 && s390x to cover this gap
   - when: distro >= rhel-7 and arch == aarch64
     enabled: false
     because: RHEL-8+ requires rhc-worker-playbook which is not available for aarch64