What's new

Ongoing development ensures that Operational Decision Manager on Cloud continues to meet your needs for creating and implementing business rule applications.

This page lists the new features and other changes in the latest release, which is based on Operational Decision Manager 9.5 External link opens a new window or tab. To view the documentation for the previous release, see Previous documentation.

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Important: Operational Decision Manager on Cloud uses IBM Cloud Pak® for Business Automation as a Service External link opens a new window or tab as a subscription entry point. It provides permission management, metrics, and REST API. The design is different, but the functionality remains the same.

General

Updated software requirements
The following third-party software is supported:
  • Java™ 21 (replaces Java 17)
  • Eclipse 4.34 (replaces Eclipse 4.30)
  • Java Servlet 6 (replaces 4.0.1)

For information about software requirements, check IBM® Operational Decision Manager on Cloud - Detailed System Requirements External link opens a new window or tab. The Rule Designer download section of the cloud portal provides links to required software.

Rule Designer

Testing Machine Learning integration

After you set up an IBM Machine Learning integration, you can test it in Rule Designer. New information Learn more

Build optimization settings

New settings enable you to shorten further the build time of large projects. When your rule projects grow larger, you can usually improve the performance of Rule Designer by using build configurations that are better suited to large projects. New information Learn more

Continuing rule analysis
Now you can spur on an analysis of your rules. You can set a limit on the number of rules to analyze in a decision service. The analysis runs until it reaches the limit and produces a report. Now you can click the Continue Rule Analysis button in the report to continue running the analysis on the unchecked rules. New information Learn more

Rule Execution Server

Improved Rule Execution Server console
The user interface for the Rule Execution Server console has been updated to incorporate new design features. The refresh makes the UI easier to use and navigate. New information Learn more

Decision Center

Close button
The editors in the Business console now include a close button (⮿). When you finish working on an artifact, you can click the button to close the file or navigate back to the decision artifacts by using the breadcrumbs. When you make changes to an artifact, you must save them before you use the close button. New information Learn more