Developing Rule Solutions in IBM Operational Decision Manager V8.6

Course details

This course introduces developers to IBM Operational Decision Manager V8.6. In this course, you learn the concepts and skills that you need to design, develop, and integrate a business rule solution with Operational Decision Manager.

Target Audience:

This intermediate course is designed for application developers.

Prerequisites:

You should have:

• Experience with the Java programming language and object-oriented concepts
• Experience with Java Platform, Standard Edition (Java SE)
• Knowledge of Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE)
• Basic knowledge of Extensible Markup Language (XML)

Note: If you do not meet all of the requirements, you can still complete the lab exercises for this class by following the step-by-step instructions that are provided.

Content:

• Course introduction
• Introducing IBM Operational Decision Manager V8.6
• Exercise: Operational Decision Manager in action
• Getting started with business rule application development
• Exercise: Setting up rule projects
• Programming with business rules
• Developing object models
• Exercise: Working with the BOM
• Exercise: Refactoring
• Orchestrating ruleset execution
• Exercise: Working with ruleflows
• Authoring rules
• Exercise: Exploring action rules
• Exercise: Authoring action rules
• Exercise: Authoring decision tables and decision trees
• Customizing rule vocabulary with categories and domains
• Exercise: Working with static domains
• Exercise: Working with dynamic domains
• Queries and ruleset extraction
• Exercise: Queries and ruleset extraction
• Debugging rules
• Exercise: Executing rules locally
• Exercise: Debugging a ruleset
• Enabling tests and simulations
• Exercise: Enabling tests and simulations
• Managing deployment
• Exercise: Managing deployment
• Executing rules with Rule Execution Server
• Exercise: Exploring the Rule Execution Server console
• Exercise: Executing rules with Rule Execution Server in Java SE;
• Exercise: Executing rules with Rule Execution Server in Java EE
• Exercise: Executing rules as a hosted transparent decision service (HTDS)
• Auditing and monitoring ruleset execution
• Exercise: Auditing ruleset execution through Decision Warehouse
• Working with the REST API
• Exercise: Working with the REST API
• Introducing decision governance
• Exercise: Working with decision services
• Course summary