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Status Not under consideration
Created by Guest
Created on May 21, 2024

Toggle feature flags

 

The question around implementing feature toggles for ODM came up in one of our problem-solving workshop.  There was a request for an update on any challenges to implementation or our next steps. 

 

Can we have feature level toggles in ODM? If already exists how can we do it.

Idea priority Urgent
  • Admin
    Antony Viaud
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    Jul 30, 2024

    Hello,

    sorry for the late reply, but I really think your request is more related to design and best practices for decision services than a specific feature missing in ODM.

    In ODM, you have many options when it comes to work on some decision content, without deploying & activating it.

    You can use branches in Decision Center.

    Within a branch, you can also select which content to put in a given ruleset.

    And you could even have some runtime context to select a particular ruleflow branch to use, if the ruleset contains all the features.

    I strongly recommend that you engage with your IBM contact for ODM to see if some assistance would be available.

  • Guest
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    May 23, 2024

    Hi Antony,


    Lets take a example:

    If we have monthly release and we are implementing different features in each release its not just limited to Decision tables/ action rules lot more than this.


    Our ask is, is there anyway if a feature is implemented which may have 10 rules and 5 Decision tables and second feature which has 5 rule changes(which may have 2 in common or not from above 10) . Can we just enable one feature in production and other feature as dormant code using a single toggle?


    If we enable that toggle both the features if we disable toggle only one feature code works in production.


    Please let me know if you need more information


  • Admin
    Antony Viaud
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    May 23, 2024

    Hello,

    can you provide more information or examples of what your team would like to be able to activate / deactivate ?

    There is already support for fine-grained permissions in Decision Center.