IBM Operational Decision Manager for z/OS

Business rule development and decision automation for mainframe applications

IBM® Operational Decision Manager for z/OS® provides business rule development and decision automation for mainframe applications. It offers a single platform for creating, updating and executing business rules and decision making in near real time on mainframe computers. IBM Operational Decision Manager for z/OS separates critical decision logic from mainframe application code to help ease the change management, implementation and governance of decision automation.

IBM Operational Decision Manager for z/OS (formerly IBM WebSphere® Operational Decision Management for z/OS) provides:

  • Natural-language business rules with collaborative decision maintenance and governance that enable you to define, deploy and update business logic while promoting consistent use of decision logic.
  • Open standards-based development tools that simplify deployment and maintenance.
  • Multiple business-rule execution choices include business rule deployment options for Enterprise COBOL batch applications, which can run stand-alone or hosted within an IBM CICS® region.
  • Incremental modernization of existing CICS, IBM IMS™ and batch applications without a complete rewrite.
  • Integration with IBM products helps you extend existing technologies and disciplines to include IBM Operational Decision Manager decision services.

Natural-language business rules with collaborative decision maintenance and governance

  • Enable business users to author and edit their own business vocabulary and logic rules.
  • Supply business users with templates, point-and-click editors, error checking and version management.
  • Combine interrelated rules to define complex and variable decisions.
  • Take advantage of configurable smart folders, filters and reports to execute and monitor rule-based processes, applications and transactions.
  • Strengthen rule quality with customizable queries, rule analysis, visual comparisons of changes and integrated testing and simulation capabilities.

Open standards-based development tools

  • Provide a unified application development environment that can synchronize technical requirements with the Decision Center for z/OS repository.
  • Deploy and execute applications running on IBM WebSphere Application Server for z/OS using Java 2, Enterprise Edition (J2EE)-compliant and service-oriented architecture (SOA)-based decision services.
  • Enable you to use the zRule Execution Server to provide a separate yet highly integrated runtime capability for COBOL applications.

Multiple business-rule execution choices

  • Offer an option for the Rule Execution Server on IBM WebSphere Application Server for z/OS.
  • Provide high availability and scalability through the underlying application server and offer the availability of the suite of decision management services.
  • Deliver the capability to consume COBOL data structures directly to facilitate integration with COBOL applications.
  • Offer an option for zRule Execution Server for z/OS that provides local integration with existing COBOL applications.
  • Provide an interface that can call COBOL directly into the rule execution.

Incremental modernization

  • Helps you gradually tackle modernization.
  • Starts modernizing one rule at a time, bringing it into a central business rule repository for external management.
  • Helps eliminate the need to re-architect or rewrite applications.
  • Helps you start seeing the value of the technology nearly immediately.

Integration with IBM products

  • Batch integration with IBM WebSphere Extended Deployment Compute Grid for Java batch and IBM IMS™ support.
  • CICS integration with CICS management through Open Services Gateway initiative (OSGi) packaging.
  • IBM Business Monitor native integration for sending and receiving events and messages provides richer, more graphical reporting capabilities.
  • IBM Rational® Developer integration to help you more easily architect, design and develop robust applications and mine for potential rules.
  • IBM Business Process Manager integration to create more agile business processes by externalizing decision logic.

IBM Operational Decision Manager for z/OS

  • White paper: Business Rules for mainframe computing

    This client case study shows how IBM WebSphere Business Rules for z/OS was used to extend existing COBOL applications without disrupting the performance or functionality required to run the enterprise.

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rule-based decisions on z/OS

IBM® Operational Decision Manager (ODM) for z/OS® V8.5 provides a centralized decision engine for simplified business rule management, helping to improve the quality of repeatable, automated actions that help shape mainframe applications and processes. Users of z/OS now have a simpler deployment configuration that includes control card-based deployment definitions.

New and enhanced capabilities in IBM Operational Decision Manager for z/OS V8.5 include:

  • Support for PL/I Language extends your ability to use decision management and modernize your applications.
  • Improved IBM CICS® and IBM IMS™ integration with the Decision Engine that includes performance improvements and persistent connection support.
  • Decision Engine is now available on IBM WebSphere® Application Server for z/OS.
  • Change management and governance includes a design based on the new Decision Governance Framework—a ready-to-use, prescriptive approach for both large enterprises and small and medium businesses.
  • New integration options with IBM Integration Bus allows software architects and developers to more easily integrate IBM Operational Decision Manager decision services.

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