Flexible Decision Automation for Your zEnterprise with Business Rules and Events

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 and business event-based solutions. Step-by-step guidance is provided about getting started with business rules and creating business events 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 second edition, SG24-8014-01, 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 8.0.1. It is also important to note that the product name has changed from IBM WebSphere Operational Decision Management for z/OS to IBM Operational Decision Manager for z/OS.