Change history

July 2025 (2025.07)

Cloud Portal

No changes for 2025.07.

Operational Decision Manager

• Based on IBM Operational Decision Manager 9.5.0
• Improved Rule Execution Server console user interface
• Testing IBM Machine Learning integration in Rule Designer
• Software support for Java™ 21 and Eclipse 4.34
• Additions to the Decision Center timeline

April 2025 (2025.04)

No new features in this release.

January 2025 (2025.01)

Cloud Portal

No new features in this release.

Decisions capabilities

• Improved rule analysis in Rule Designer
• Cleanup endpoints in REST API for Decision Center
• Improved display of test reports for Decision Center
• Improved test result filtering for Decision Center
• Property to prevent an approver from being an author in a change activity for Decision Center
• REST API to run Decision Center diagnostics
• Pagination features for releases and activities in decision services in the Business console

October 2024 (2024.10)

Cloud Portal

No new features in this release.

Automation capabilities

No new features in this release.

July 2024 (2024.07)

Cloud Portal

Launch Process Admin Console on specific application cluster members (Workflow capability): To help you troubleshoot server instance related issues, you can choose to launch the Process Admin Console on a specific application cluster member in the Cloud portal by clicking the new action attached to the tool.

Decisions

IBM Operational Decision Manager 9.5: The components for creating and executing decision services are based on IBM Operational Decision Manager 9.0 .

IBM Watson® Machine Learning integration (Rule Designer): Machine Learning extracts key characteristics, patterns, and anomalies from your historical data to create predictive models. These models can be used to apply insights from your data in decision services.

New Java and Eclipse (Rule Designer): Rule Designer now uses Java 17 and Eclipse 4.30. You must install these versions of Java and Eclipse before you install the latest version of Rule Designer.

New ruleflow editor (Rule Designer): A new ruleflow editor brings improved functionality to Rule Designer. The legacy editor is also included in the component. You can choose between the two editors.

Ruleflows and variable sets in the timeline (Decision Center): The timeline now shows ruleflows and variables among other decision artifacts such as action rules and decision tables. You can compare older versions with newer ones, and restore them.

Improved branch merge in the Business console (Decision Center): The branch merge function in Decision Center now handles changes to decision service properties such as categories, queries referenced in decision operations, dynamic XOM (schemas), and the engine mode

Pagination in the Library page (Decision Center): The Library tab is now paginated to avoid performance issues when listing many decision services. You can choose to see 10, 50 or all the decision services on one page. You can browse quickly through the pages with arrow buttons, and use the filter to search for specific decision services. The number of pages displayed is saved across sessions for each user. The maximum number of decision services that can be displayed on a single page is 500. If there are more than 500 decision services, then the pagination is forced to 500.

Enabling distributed caching (Decision Center): A distributed cache is available to reduce the amount of information retrieved from the Decision Center database. The cache is provided by using Infinispan libraries, and it is shared by all the Decision Center modules that are connected to the schema of the database. Contact your cloud support team for this feature.

Long-running deletion without timing out (Decision Center): Deleting a branch or a full decision service can take a while, and can have timeout issues. The deletion process now runs in background mode. A single request is sent to initiate the deletion, and then a background process does the actual deletion. This deletion process applies to decision services and branches (regular branches, change activities, and releases).

REST API for generating rule reports (Decision Center): You can generate reports based on decision services, projects, or queries. These reports show the content and properties of deployed project elements.

April 2024 (2024.04)

Created time for users

A new column Created was added to the Users tab of the Access Management view. The created column displays the time when the user was added to the subscription.

Specify user properties for an invited user

The user invitation in cloud portal now allows to specify user names and user id properties when inviting new users. See Inviting users to the cloud subscription

January 2024 (2024.01)

Cloud Portal

System Operations view for an environment is now integrated in the environment specific section of Cloud Portal's Navigation menu: To provide a more consistent user experience, Cloud Portal provides access to the System Operations view via a link in the environment specific section of the Navigation sidebar like for other environment specific views.

Sort and search in the Service Credentials panel: The Service Credentials view in the Access Management panel allows now to search for specific service credentials. You can now sort the results by clicking on the header of the columns.

Decisions capabilities

Improved testing and table editing: This release includes new decision table editing features for setting default values and resizing rows to content. Testing has also been improved with custom data providers and a custom implementation for tests.

Insights capabilities

Drill-down charts: You can create a multi-layer chart that allows you to explore a data set, by navigating up and down into nested layers, each being defined by a data field. For example, you might define a drill-down showing global sales, and then drill-down by country, and then by product, and then drill again by salesperson. Layers can have different graph types (pie, bar, table, and so on) and legends to provide the best readability at each level.

Display of durations: A new UI is available to set the time display format for durations, for example to display the time in seconds, minutes, hours, or days.

October 2023 (2023.10)

Cloud Portal

Support for managing data source custom properties: Users in the operator role can now manage the custom and connection properties of the IBM Business Automation Workflow on Cloud data sources.

Decisions capabilities

New trial environment: The Operational Decision Manager components have been integrated into the free Cloud Pak for Business Automation trial environment. Sign up to try the components in the secure cloud portal.

July 2023 (2023.07)

Cloud Portal

• Determine a user's last access date: A Last Accessed column was added to the User tab of the Access Management view. The Last Accessed column displays the date of last access for the listed user.
• Sort on a user's full name, identifier, and last accessed fields: You can now sort by full name, identifier, and last accessed fields in the User tab of the Access Management view.

Decisions capabilities

New Java and Eclipse for Rule Designer: The latest version of Rule Designer uses Java 11 and Eclipse 4.24. This upgrade enables the decision table editors to run on popular operating systems, including Linux®, macOS and Windows. You also benefit from improvements that include security and performance enhancements.

Insights capabilities

Support for event emitters external to IBM Cloud Pak® for Business Automation as a Service: IBM Business Automation Workflow, Operational Decision Manager, or IBM FileNet®® Content Manager systems running outside of an IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation as a Service subscription can be configured to send their event data to Business Automation Insights in IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation as a Service.

January 2023 (2023.01)

Business automations capabilities

• Troubleshoot new business automations more easily: When you develop new business automations, you might run into issues during testing. To help you troubleshoot these issues, you can download logs from the server your automations run on.
• Easily explore and interact with the GraphQL API: GraphiQL is an in-browser integrated development environment for exploring and interacting with the Content Services GraphQL API. The API provides a schema and an easy-to-understand query language that simplifies developing applications for your Content Platform Engine.

Content capabilities

• New default retention policy for audit logs: To improve the performance and stability of object stores, a default retention period of 365 days for log entries now applies. A preconfigured sweep jobs runs weekly to remove log entries older than 365 days.
• Troubleshoot new content applications more easily: When you develop new content applications, you might run into issues during testing. To help you troubleshoot these issues, you can download logs from the server your applications run on.

Decisions capabilities

New rule and decision table editors: New editors for rules and decision tables are available. The new editors are provided with their old editors so that you can select your preferred editors.

Workflow capabilities

Troubleshoot new process applications more easily: When you develop new process applications, you might run into issues during testing. To help you troubleshoot these issues, you can view logs in real time or download them from the server your applications run on.

July 2022 (2022.07)

Cloud Portal

• Improved system operations for Business automations capabilities: You can now perform the following system operations tasks:
  • Create and manage data sources.
  • Import and manage certificates.
  • Restart the workflow component.
• Securer handling of activation links in subscription invitations: When you invite a user to your subscription, they receive a welcome email that is valid for 30 days. With this release, the invitation is still valid for 30 days but the activation link in the email is now valid for only 30 minutes from the time the email was sent. If a user tries to activate their access with an expired link, a new activation email is automatically sent.
• Team Management is now in the Admin consoles view: Team Management is the tool used for administering global teams for business automations. This tool was previously in the Publish view.

Business automations capabilities

Support for workflow automations: You can now design and develop workflow automations and workflow automation services directly in Studio.

Decisions capabilities

• Use copy and delete functionality to manage the branches in a decision service. Work in Decision Center in either the Business console or REST API.
• Resolve some of the known limitations in Rule Designer on macOS.

Content capabilities

• Use Content Services as a content repository for storing and managing Salesforce documents.
• Create and automate scheduled asynchronous tasks that can run on any repository by using the task manager service.

January 2022 (2022.01)

Cloud Portal

• Change password for service accounts: You can now change passwords for service accounts directly from the Access management view.
• Track usage of Decisions capabilities: You can now create decisions-specific reports to track actual usage and usage over time. The following report types are available: decisions reports, artifacts reports, and billable artifacts reports.

Business automations capabilities

• Support for workflow automations and workflow automation services: You can orchestrate multiple workflows (structured processes, unstructured cases, or services) in a workflow automation to address a specific business situation. You can also publish the workflows as automation services so that they can be discovered and reused by others. Workplace is now available in the development environment too for testing the business-user experience of your workflow automations.
• Automate continuous integration and continuous delivery by using new DevOps REST APIs: You can now automate the continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) of applications from development environment to a staging, testing, or production environment by using the new DevOps REST APIs.
• Configure data validation on application pages: You can choose to validate data items on your application pages. When you design applications, you can mark an item as required, and validate its value. You can also define how validation errors are handled. To edit your validation settings, click the Validate (checkmark) button on your application page.
• Call automation services on page load: When you design applications, you can now choose to call an automation service when your application page loads. After you drag your automation service to your application page, you can choose to call the automation service when a button is clicked, or when the page loads. Edit this behavior at any time by clicking the Edit button next to the page selector.

Content capabilities

Support for IBM Content Collector for Email is available for Content capabilities that are hosted on dedicated tenants.

Decisions capabilities

Rule Designer now works with Eclipse IDE 4.16 and Java 11. The Decision Center Enterprise console is no longer available. In the Decision Center Business console, changes include the display of vocabularies and BOM paths in decision services, and the ability to export snapshots for use in the REST API.

September 2021 (2021.09)

Cloud Portal

Administer permissions for Insights dashboards: A new Insights Administrators role is available for Business Performance Center. In addition to working with dashboards, users assigned to this role can also assign data permissions to teams and monitoring sources.

Insights capabilities

Track performance of content and decisions capabilities: Business Performance Center now supports tracking metrics, key performance indicators (KPIs), and other measurements for content and decisions capabilities.