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IBM Operational Decision Manager (ODM) - Overview

IBM Operational Decision Manager provides a development environment and a dedicated user interface for automating and governing frequently occurring, repeatable business decisions. The Operational Decision Manager plug-in includes steps to deploy data models and rule sets to the Rule Execution Server.

It supports two types of authentication Basic Authentication and oAuth Authentication .

To add the Operational Decision Manager plug-in steps to processes, click Application Server > Java > ODM in the step palette of the process editor.

Compatibility

This plug-in requires version 6.1.1.1 or later of IBM DevOps Deploy.

This plug-in was developed and tested with IBM Operational Decision Manager version 8.8.

This plug-in is supported to run on all operating systems that are supported by the IBM DevOps Deploy agent.

Installation

No special steps are required for installation. See Installing plug-ins in IBM DevOps Deploy.

History

Version 15

  • Fixed issue to support both oauth and basic auth .

Version 14

  • RFE - URBANCODE-I-395 - Implement oAuth .

Version 13

  • RFE 123201 - Added support to run test suites using a decision service name.

Version 12

  • Version 12 of the plug-in uses apiauth in the REST path rather than api.

Version 11

Version 11 of the plug-in includes updates from RFE 104196:

  • Added steps to delete Rule Archive and XOMs from Rule Execution Server.
  • Added automatic capture of properties in fetch steps to output properties.
  • Added ability to pull the latest Rule App, Set, or XOM when version number is not specified.

Version 8

  • Version 8 of the plug-in includes a fix for APAR PI74332, where Deploy Data Model was not properly accepting response codes.

Version 7

  • Version 7 of the plug-in includes support for property file encryption.

Version 6

  • Version 6 of the plug-in includes a step to create or update RuleApp or RuleSet properties on Rule Execution Server.

Version 5

  • Deploy RuleApps implicitly by merging and versioning policy instead of deploying just RuleSets with explicit version and names.

Version 4

  • Converted Deploy Rule Set step from an Ant to a REST-based implementation.

Version 3

  • Version 3 of the plug-in includes a step to fetch a RuleApp or XOM resource from Rule Execution Server.

Version 2

  • Version 2 of the plug-in includes a step to deploy an XOM resource.

Version 1

  • Initial release of the plug-in, which includes a step to deploy a rule set.