Prerequisites and limitations

Before you start configuring for OpenID Connect, ensure that you meet the following requirements:

• Knowledge of OpenID Connect - You are familiar with OpenID Connect.
• Your organization uses OpenID Connect and already has an OpenID Connect Provider.
• Your application server is WebSphere Application Server Liberty. Operational Decision Manager is installed on Liberty.
• Decision services must be protected. For more information, see Configuring the hosted transparent decision service.

Before you configure and use OpenID Connect with Operational Decision Manager, make sure that you are aware of the following limitations:

• About Decision Center:
  • The Business console supports OpenID Connect authentication.
  • In the Swagger user interface, you must authorize by doing the following actions:
    1. Click the Authorize button.
    2. In the Value field, enter "Bearer <access_token>".
    3. Click Authorize.
    If you do not do this, you are prompted to enter your username and password when you click the Try it out button, which is not relevant for OpenID Connect.
• Headless deployment (deployment without the Eclipse user interface) of decision services does not support OpenID Connect.