Business rules are the part of InterSystems Ensemble production solution which allow nontechnical users to change the behavior of Ensemble business processes at specific decision points.
I had a need for a Filter, but did not want to recreate the wheel by creating another Data Lookup Table, so instead I created a Linked Table that points to a MS SQL Table outside of IRIS.
Once I had the Linked Table, I created a Class Method Function that would query the Linked Table and return a 1 if a result came back.