What's new
Discover the new features and other improvements in Operational Decision Manager for z/OS 8.11.1.0.
This topic lists the major changes in the 8.11.1.0 release. The entries include links to additional resources.
Important: Use of inclusive terminology
While IBM values the use of inclusive language, terms that are outside of IBM's direct influence are sometimes required for the sake of maintaining user understanding. As other industry leaders join IBM in embracing the use of inclusive language, IBM will continue to update the documentation to reflect those changes.
General
- New decision table and rule 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 old editors.
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- Deprecated features
- The following features were deprecated for 8.11.1.0.
- Old rule and decision table editors
- XML binding
- Java 8
- WebSphere Application Server traditional
- Execution using SOAP + WSDL (HTDS)
- Execution using REST + XML (HTDS)
- XU memory profiler
- Updated software requirements
- Support for the following software has been updated since the last release:
- Windows 11
- macOS 12 (Monterey)
- MySQL 8.0
- PostgreSQL 14.0
- JBoss 7.4.4
Tip: Always check IBM® Operational Decision Manager detailed system requirements before installing or upgrading components. - Norwegian support
- The components in Operational Decision Manager for z/OS now support Norwegian. Developers
can use the editors to write code in this language.
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- Glossary in English only
- The glossary is not translated. It is provided in its original English version only.
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Rule Designer
- Simplified installation of Rule Designer
- Installation of Rule Designer has
been simplified.
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- 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.
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Decision Center
- Repository cleanup tool
- Use the REST API cleanup tool to remove versions of items in the Decision Center repository. The cleanup tool permanently
deletes items from the repository, whereas the archiving tool leaves old data available in the
database.
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- Locking and unlocking artifacts
- In the Business console, you can both lock and unlock artifacts to control when they are edited.
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- Disabling decision model services
- Use the new custom setting to enable or disable Create Decision Model and
Import Decision Model in the Business console interface. The Business console
library does not show decision model projects when the decision model services are disabled.
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- REST API to delete and rename decision service snapshots
- Now you can delete and rename decision service snapshots with REST API.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- Default grid columns setting
- Use this setting to define the default grid 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.
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- 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...
- 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.
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