What's new in 8.10.3 - December 2019

New in 8.10.3 Learn what's new in Operational Decision Manager 8.10.3.

Operational Decision Manager delivers new features and improved performance with each release.

Table of contents

General

Supporting OpenID Connect

Operational Decision Manager now supports OpenID Connect, which allows clients of all types to request and receive information about authenticated sessions and users. Extensible, it allows participants to use optional features such as encryption of identity data, discovery of OpenID Providers, and session management. New information Learn more...

Rolling upgrade to 8.10.3

If you are working with Operational Decision Manager 8.9.2 or newer, follow the updated instructions to upgrade to 8.10.3. New information Learn more...

Product dependencies

Operational Decision Manager 8.10.3 supports the new versions of the following dependencies:
  • IBM® Installation Manager 1.9 (MacOS: version 1.8.9)
  • Java™ 8.0.5.40
  • OpenJDK 8
  • WebSphere® Application Server Liberty 19.0.0.9
  • DB2® Standard Edition 11.5

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Rule Execution Server

Execution statistics from REST API

A new service in the Decision Server REST API gets statistics on execution units. It identifies execution units and retrieves their execution statistics. New information Learn more...

Decision Center

Better performance from improved database schema

Improvements to the Decision Center database schema deliver better performance, especially during merge operations. To benefit from these improvements, upgrade your current database to the new 8.10.3 schema by applying the SQL script for your database vender. Note that you must apply this database upgrade to use the OpenID Connect authentication feature. New information Learn more...

Using parallel processing to improve performance for building rulesets

Building a ruleset can draw heavily on machine resources because, for example, every rule artifact must be retrieved and compiled. Although the compiled rules are cached, this compilation process is CPU intensive, and archiving all the rule artifacts is done in memory. Use the testSuite thread pool to manage parallel processing to improve your performance. New information Learn more...

Additions to the REST API

There are two new entry points in the REST API. They enable you to create a snapshot of a given decision service, and delete a test report of a given test report ID. They are in the Build section of the Swagger user interface. New information Learn more...

User defined methods for decision tables

Calls to user defined methods are supported when you export and import the decision table. New information Learn more...

Viewing billable artifacts

If you're on a subscription service, you can now see your billable artifacts in the new Billable Artifact Counts section in the Diagnostics subtab of the Administration tab. It shows the artifacts that are counted for billing information, and does not include artifacts in the recycle bin or the smart views in the Enterprise console. The new section is not shown by default. You must enable it to display it. New information Learn more...