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Decision Optimization CPLEX & For Watson Studio

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Support for mac M1 ARM

Need CPLEX native support for ARM based osx M1/M2 - A lot of developers use mac for development and going through the emulation option is not optimal

OPL csv import/export

Generating .dat is not that elegant.Importing/exporting from Excel is slow.Csv format is often used for other applications as well.
over 3 years ago in Decision Optimization CPLEX & For Watson Studio 0 Delivered

Replacement for DB Link to allow sensible database access from OPL

DB Link functionality was removed from version 12.7 and this prevents the sensible accessing of databases from OPL by removing the availability of DBConnection, DBRead, DBUpdate and DBExecute. Whilst there were various issues and bugs with the dat...
over 3 years ago in Decision Optimization CPLEX & For Watson Studio 0 Delivered

Postpone the end of support for IBM DOCPLEX Cloud

It is currently planned an end of support for IBM Optimization center in september 2020. Given the global crisis related to COVID 19 Pandemia, our development team are understaffed and there is a risk not to be ready by September 2020. Could we ex...

Dynamic stopping criterion - An effective way to interrupt the optimal solution search for MILP

Please, see the attached document-

Incumbent callbacks during polishing

I keep hitting this issue where I have to use something like an incumbent callback from CPLEX in order to report progress, use a custom stopping criterion, save intermediate solutions, etc. This works fine in normal CPLEX B&B, but it seems tha...

new DBlink for cplex OPL optimization studio

Dear developers. I thought that this idea either was already posted or perhaps is considered inside other idea related with ODX, but anyway I do want to ensure that next enhancement to cplex optimization studio get done: until opl 12.6.3. the fetc...

Business ready dashboard sharing

The dashboard exported from DO for DSX is currently a json file. The business user has no way of easily opening and reviewing the dashboard. Ideally the dashboard should be packaged in a way that is directly consumable from the business user witho...

Reusable Gantt chart for Python models

Provide interactive Gantt that can easily connect to a Python CPLEX model, without writing code for the Gantt. (see e.g. how SPSS Modeler provides reusable and configurable visuals inside their new UI, we are looking for a similar experience, i.e....

Support custom installed Python libraries

DO for DSX seems to not support custom installed Python libraries.I installed a Python library for performance profiling in the notebook for my optimization model using '!pip install yappi'.The notebook runs fine, but when importing as model, the ...