Flexible Decision Automation for Your zEnterprise with Business Rules and Events

The case for Operational Decision Manager

This chapter introduces operational decision management and describes using IBM Operational Decision Manager for z/OS to address the agility needs of an organization’s CICS, IBM IMS™, and batch COBOL applications.

The following topics are covered in this chapter:

•1.1, “What is Operational Decision Manager” on page 4

•1.2, “When to think about Operational Decision Manager” on page 5

•1.3, “Why Operational Decision Manager in z/OS applications” on page 6

•1.4, “Where Operational Decision Manager ...