Introducing Decision Runtime for z/OS
Decision Runtime for z/OS combines decision making and change detection tools to provide a business rule management system that is easy to evolve, trace, audit, and test.
Extracting decisions from your business solutions
- More effective application development and maintenance with less business risk
- You can apply the benefits of decision management incrementally into your CICS®, IMS, and batch applications to reduce the business risk.
- Reduction of duplicated functionality
- Duplicated functionality causes a company to spend more time and resources than needed maintaining applications. Client applications can use the same decision service in a shared execution server.
- Sharing decisions across applications and platforms
- If your enterprise has previous knowledge of and investment with business rule management systems (BRMS), you can start application modernization projects to assess how existing business rule and business event applications can address the need to respond more rapidly to emerging opportunities on z/OS.
- AI integration and rule development
- You can use AI in developing effective business rules for applying your policies, and integrate AI into solutions that learn from application usage.
Managing decisions
To manage agile solution delivery, it is essential to be able to understand line-of-business applications in terms of the business rules that they implement and the effect of rule changes on key business processes. Decision Runtime for z/OS provides the framework to develop business applications so that business policy makers can create, update, and maintain the business decisions.
- Rule editors: Decision Intelligence Client Managed Software, Decision Manager Open Edition, and Operational Decision Manager
- AI development and integration: Decision Intelligence and Machine Learning for z/OS
- Web application server: WebSphere Liberty
- Execution servers: Rule Execution Server and zRule Execution Server for z/OS
Putting decision management in the hands of business users
Decision Intelligence and Operational Decision Manager provide integrated repositories and management components for line-of-business subject matter experts. Business and IT functions can work in collaboration, aligning the entire organization in the implementation of automated decisions and accelerating the maintenance lifecycle as they evolve.
Automated decisions are managed in a single repository, which can then be flexibly deployed to production mainframe applications. This can facilitate consistent decision evaluation across platforms, projects, and processes providing the ability to reuse business models between rule projects in z/OS and distributed applications.
For more information, see Integration with Decision Intelligence Client Managed Software and Integration with Operational Decision Manager.
zRule Execution Server for z/OS to manage decisions
zRule Execution Server for z/OS provides the runtime and development components to automate the response of highly variable decisions that are based on the specific context of a process, transaction, or interaction. You can monitor a business network to discover data patterns, and then process this information against hundreds or even thousands of business rules to determine how to respond within front-end and back-end systems.