Installing the Decision Intelligence Client Managed Software command-line tool

Tech preview You can use the Decision Intelligence Client Managed Software command-line tool for various tasks on your decision automation. These tasks include creating new projects, creating decision tables from Excel files, adding new operations, and other tasks.

Before you begin

  1. Install Java™ Development Kit (JDK) version 25 or later.
  2. Set the JAVA_HOME environment variable to the JDK installation directory.
  3. Around 80 MB of disk space is required for the installation of the tool.
  4. Download a compressed installation file available in <DECISION_DESIGNER_SERVER_URL>/download/. The file name is in the format ads-cli-<foundationVersion>.zip
  5. Launch scripts are provided for Windows and Unix in the downloaded compressed file. Make sure that the scripts in the bin folder have executable permissions according to your specific operating system.
  6. Make sure that the Decision Intelligence build-maven-plugin is installed. For steps on how to install it, check the INSTALL guide in the maven folder of your downloaded compressed file. For more information, see Setting up your build environment.

Procedure

  1. Extract the downloaded installation file.
  2. Add <InstallDir>/bin/ to your PATH environment variable. You can do it by updating the appropriate configuration file of your operating system.
  3. Verify that the tool is installed correctly: 
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What to do next

You can now use the Decision Intelligence command-line tool to perform various tasks on your decision automation. For more information, see Decision Intelligence command-line tool reference.