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. 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
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The components now support Norwegian. Developers can use the editors to write code in this language. 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. 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. 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. 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 ofrtsUser
have been expanded to include exporting decision service projects. These exported projects can be imported back into Decision Center. 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. Learn more...
- REST API to delete and rename decision service snapshots
- Now you can delete and rename decision service snapshots with REST API. 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. 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
, andscope
. Okta users can use thelogoutTokenParam
parameter to configure OpenID logout requests.