What's new in 8.10.4 - June 2020
New in 8.10.4 Learn what's new in Operational Decision Manager 8.10.4.
Operational Decision Manager delivers new features and improved performance with every release.
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General
Removed: Deployment to IBM Cloud Private
Operational Decision Manager on IBM Cloud Private is not available in 8.10.4. Alternatives
include Operational Decision Manager on Certified Kubernetes
or Operational Decision Manager in IBM Cloud Pak® for Business Automation. Operational Decision Manager on IBM Cloud Private is still available in 8.10.3. 
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For monitoring your Operational Decision Manager software, IBM® License Metric Tool is an alternative to the metering service
in IBM Cloud Private. It shows detailed licensing and
usage information about IBM software installations. If you subscribe to a consumption-based service,
you can use the tool to check your billable resources directly.
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Product dependencies
- WebSphere® Application Server Liberty 20.0.0.3
- WebSphere Application Server 9.0.5
- Apache Tomcat 9 (supported by Operational Decision Manager 8.10.2.2 and 8.10.4)
- PostgreSQL 12 (supported by Operational Decision Manager 8.10.2.2, 8.10.3 and 8.10.4)
For more system requirements, see Detailed system requirements.
Improved incremental migration
Changes to the progressive migration scripts facilitate the movement of resources between
versions.
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Decision Center
Session timeout settings
Set the parameters for timing out work sessions in the Business console. You tell the console how
long to wait before it times out automatically, and when to warn the user before a timeout.
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Creating branches from snapshots
Create an editable branch from a snapshot in the Business console. You can edit decision
artifacts in the new branch, and deploy to an execution server.
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Operational Decision Manager on Certified Kubernetes
Optimizing the Decision Server execution unit (XU)
It is now possible to optimize the execution unit (XU) in existing ODM instances.
Configuring user access with OpenID Connect (OIDC)
Operational Decision Manager on Certified Kubernetes now integrates with OpenID Connect, the authentication framework that is built on top of the OAuth 2.0 protocol.
Customizing roles at the container level
It is now possible to map ODM roles to groups in the basic or LDAP registry even if their names are different.
Configuring external access
There are three mechanisms by which you can define external access to your ODM instances in a Certified Kubernetes cluster: OpenShift routes, Ingress, or NodePort.
Upgrading ODM releases
If you installed the first release (8.10.3) of Operational Decision Manager on Certified Kubernetes, learn how to upgrade to the new version 8.10.4.