What to do next

Depending on your installation, you might have some configuration to do after completing the installation of Operational Decision Manager.

Sample Server installation: No configuration is required to develop, test, and run the tutorials and samples, see Get started with the Sample Server.
Stand-alone Server installation: No configuration is required except for certain Event features, see Get started with the Stand-alone Server.
Custom installation: To use your rules empowered applications, you must configure the Operational Decision Manager applications on a production server, see Use your application in production.

Get started with the Sample Server

The first time that you start the Sample Server, a profile (ODMSample) is configured on WebSphere® Application Server Network Deployment to run the included samples and tutorials. You can start the sample server using the start menu shortcut.

On the start menu, click All Programs > IBM > package_group > Sample Server > Start server. package_group refers to the package group specified in IBM® Installation Manager during installation. The default package group is Operational Decision Manager V8.0.1.

The profile creation takes several minutes to complete. Wait until the build has successfully completed.

You can perform a number of introductory tasks using the environment that is installed for you by the Sample Server installer:

Perform the Getting started tutorials, and other component specific tutorials, see Site map: Getting started tutorials and Site map: Tutorials
Run the samples from the Samples Console in Eclipse, see Site map: Samples.

For more information on the Sample Server and how to use it, see Using the Sample Server

Note:

If you are using the Sample Server profile to run Events, you can also use the same username and password to login to the Event Widgets and to the Events Administration console.
Single sign-on (SSO) authentication is activated for the Sample Server. SSO allows users to log in once and gain access to all applications without being prompted to log in again for each of them. If you use different sign-on credentials for the applications on the Sample Server, for example when performing certain samples and tutorials, you get an error message when you attempt to sign in to the second application.

To avoid this issue, you must sign out of the first console and then sign in to the second console. Alternatively, you can sign in to all of the applications on the server using the credentials that you entered at installation time.

Get started with the Stand-alone Server

After running the launchpad using the Stand-alone Server installer, you can start the stand-alone server using the start menu shortcut.

On the start menu, click All Programs > IBM > package_group > Stand-alone Server > Start server.

package_group refers to the package group specified in IBM Installation Manager during installation. The default package group is Operational Decision Manager V8.0.1.

Important: To use the Events Properties tool (propertiesui) and legacy connectors (email and ftp), you must perform some additional configuration steps. For more information, see Customizing the event runtime environment including Editing the setenv file and Configuring multiple Decision Server Events profiles to coexist.

Use your application in production

Rule Designer and Event Designer are installed and you can start designing your application in Decision Server.

Depending on your company’s needs and on the products of Operational Decision Manager that you want to use, some configuration is required:

To execute your rule-based application, see Configuring Rule Execution Server.
To execute your application using event processing, see Configuring Decision Server Events.
For business users to edit and test rules in Decision Center, see Configuring.
To execute your application on a z/OS® platform, install the required additional files using the SMP/E tool, and see Configuring Decision Server for z/OS.
For business users to edit and test rules in Decision Center for z/OS, install the required additional files using the SMP/E tool, and see Configuring Decision Center for z/OS.

To get a better understanding of the development lifecycle using Operational Decision Manager, see Business rule application development.