The IBM® Operational Decision Manager product family provides value to organizations that want to improve the responsiveness and precision of automated decisions. This decision management platform on IBM z/OS® provides comprehensive automation and governance of operational decisions that are made within mainframe applications. These decisions can be shared with other cross-platform applications, providing true enterprise decision management.

This IBM Redbooks® publication makes the case for using Operational Decision Manager for z/OS and provides an overview of its components. It is aimed at IT architects, enterprise architects, and development managers looking to build rule-based solutions. Step-by-step guidance is provided about getting started with business rules by using a scenario-based approach. This book provides detailed guidelines for testing and simulation and describes advanced options for decision authoring. Finally, it describes and documents multiple runtime configuration options.

This third edition, SG24-8014-02, of this IBM Redbooks publication updated the information presented in this book to reflect function available in IBM Operational Decision Manager for z/OS Version 8.7.1.

Part 1. IBM z Systems with business rules

Chapter 1. The case for IBM Operational Decision Manager

Chapter 2. IBM Operational Decision Manager for z/OS

Chapter 3. Getting started with business rules

Chapter 4. Managing business decisions through the full lifecycle

Chapter 5. Invoking Operational Decision Manager from COBOL and PL/I clients

Chapter 6. Advanced topics for decision authoring

Part 2. System configuration

Chapter 7. Prerequisites and considerations before you start

Chapter 8. zRule Execution Server for IBM z/OS stand-alone server

Chapter 9. zRule Execution Server for z/OS embedded server

Chapter 10. Configuring IBM CICS to work with Operational Decision Manager

Chapter 11. Configuring IBM IMS to work with Operational Decision Manager

Chapter 12. Liberty Application Server on IBM z/OS

Chapter 13. Configuring IBM WebSphere Optimized Local Adapters support

Chapter 14. Configuring Decision Warehousing

Chapter 15. Configuring the Rule Execution Servers for IBM z/OS console with virtual IP addressing

Chapter 16. Configuring Operational Decision Manager to collect execution data using SMF

Chapter 17. Problem determination

Part 3. Appendixes

Appendix A. Calling out from a ruleset to a Virtual Storage Access Method file to augment data

Appendix B. Configuring runtime values by using variables defined in HBRINST

Appendix C. Additional material