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 list covers the new features and other changes in the current release.

General

New rule and decision table editors
New decision table and rule editors are available in Rule Designer and Decision Center. The new editors are displayed by default in the components, but you can switch to the legacy editors, which are deprecated. New information Learn more...
Updated software requirements
The following third-party software is supported:
  • Windows 11
  • macOS 12 (Monterey)
  • macOS 13 (Ventura) for Rule Designer usage

For the best user experience, always check IBM Operational Decision Manager on Cloud - Detailed System Requirements.

Deprecated features
The following features are deprecated in this release. Deprecated features are still supported, but they are no longer developed.
  • Legacy rule and decision table editors
  • XML binding
  • Java 8
  • Execution using SOAP + WSDL (HTDS)
  • Execution using REST + XML (HTDS)

For all the deprecated features, see Deprecated and removed features.

Norwegian support

The components now support Norwegian. Developers can use the editors to write code in this language. New information Learn more...

Rule Designer

Formatting empty cells in test suites
In Excel, you can format empty cells in test suites so that the cells are not treated as null. This formatting works for Excel scenario sheets made in Rule Designer and Decision Center. New information Learn more...

Decision Center

Default grid columns setting
Use this setting to define the default gird columns that are displayed for all the users in the Decisions Artifacts and Query Results tables. Users can override this setting in the Profile dialog, where they can apply their individual preferences for the grid columns. New information Learn more...
Locking and unlocking decision artifacts and files
In the Business console, you can both lock and unlock artifacts and files to control when they are edited. New information Learn more...
Permission for all users to export decision service projects
Decision Center has predefined roles that include rtsUser for regular business users. The standard permissions of rtsUser have been expanded to include exporting decision service projects. These exported projects can be imported back into Decision Center. New information Learn more...
Improved snapshot comparison
Snapshot comparison now displays changes in business object models (BOM), vocabularies, and BOM to XOM (B2X) strings. Comparison dialogs for BOM, vocabularies, and B2X are also improved in the merge view. New information Learn more...
REST API to delete and rename decision service snapshots
Now you can delete and rename decision service snapshots with REST API. New information Learn more...
Diagnostics reports on project usage
You can use the diagnostics in the Business console to track project usage, and charge subscription costs to specific business units. The diagnostics for billable artifacts have also been changed to focus on decision services. The diagnostics do not count projects in a repository that are not used by decision services, but they can count each instance of an artifact shared among decision services.New information Learn more...
Additional OpenID Connect attributes
Three optional attributes have been added for creating a JSON file for setting up Decision Center to connect to OpenID Connect Providers: logoutURL, logoutTokenParam, and scope. Okta users can use the logoutTokenParam parameter to configure OpenID logout requests.