Generating decision services for IBM Operational Decision Manager

You use the Decision Assistant to create decision services for IBM Operational Decision Manager, where you further develop them in Decision Center. The decision services are shared as JSON specifications.

The assistant takes you through the following steps to create your decision service:

Step 1: Setting the scope of the decision
The assistant prompts you to describe the decision you want to automate. The description that you enter must be in natural language and must be prefixed with /ODM. For example:
/ODM Create a decision that determines if a customer is eligible for a loan.

or

/ODM Calculate sales commissions based on compensation policies.
You are then prompted to provide a business policy. A business policy is a set of guidelines that define business processes, industry practices, or the scope and characteristics of business offerings. You can enter the policy as plain text or using Markdown syntax.
If you do not provide a business policy, the assistant creates one automatically. The policy that the assistant generates is fully editable. For more information, see Reviewing and editing generated business policies.
Based on your input, the assistant generates a data model.
Step 2: Building the structure of the decision
The assistant builds the structure of the ruleflow by adding a start node and an end node, and rule task nodes linked by transitions.
Step 3: Defining rules in natural language
The assistant creates the business rules for each rule task node. In this step, the rules are written in natural language, making it easy for you to understand and review them.
Step 4: Finalizing the decision service
The assistant translates the rules it defined in step 3 into rules written in the Decision Intelligence rule language.

Exporting decision services for Operational Decision Manager

When your decision service is finalized, click Download specification to export it. The decision service is exported as a JSON interchange file that is formatted specifically for Operational Decision Manager.

After you export the decision service, you use a REST API to apply the specification and create the corresponding decision service in Decision Center in Operational Decision Manager. For more information on using decision services created with the Decision Assistant in Decision Center, see Using AI-generated decision services.