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Conflict refiner for heirarchical goals

Idea: Create a multi-level / hierarchical conflict refiner Given a formulated problem that has multiple goals with different priorities, hierarchical goals, if the solution from the first level makes the second level infeasible it is not easy to r...
4 months ago in CPLEX Optimization Studio / CPLEX Optimization Studio 0 Submitted

Introduce a new shiny deployment option (similar to shinyapps.io)

Why don't we make a feature similar to the RStudio's "deploy to shinyapps" ability. So basically you can deploy a shiny app from your RStudio with 1 click to the cloud. Shinyapps.io is not an IBM site, may be we could introduce similar thing based...
over 8 years ago in Watson Studio 7 Not under consideration

Support notebook code to write any file format and allow user to 'Export' (download)

Currently, DSXL only supports writing .csv files in Data Sets. In that case, the user can view the file and export/download the file to the local machine for further processing.Other file formats can be written, but the file cannot be viewed or ex...
over 7 years ago in Watson Studio 2 Not under consideration

Add NetApp Trident storage support for WatsonX.AI (5.2 and onwards)

Our aligned storage solution on containerized applications is NetApp Trident. We have invested heavily in this, so it is our expectation that the enterprise grade solution of WatsonX.AI supports this storage solution. Forcing to use ODF just for t...
4 months ago in Watson Studio / watsonx.ai 0 Under review

Implement nonconvex quadratic constraints in CPLEX

CPLEX already supports nonconvex quadratic objectives, but not yet constraints, even though they bring a lot of flexibility in modelling.
over 5 years ago in CPLEX Optimization Studio / CPLEX Optimization Studio 2 Future consideration

Proposal for an Official CPLEX R Package for Seamless RStudio Integration

I’d like to suggest that IBM develop and maintain an official R package for the CPLEX solver. Today, R users must rely on a handful of hard-to-install third-party libraries, whereas competitors like Gurobi ship a polished “gurobi” package that ins...
5 months ago in CPLEX Optimization Studio / CPLEX Optimization Studio 0 Submitted

Integration with IBM data replication CDC

We have many customers with CDC and this integration would allow us to upsell databand on those accounts. CDC customers want to make sure the replication process deliver reliable data and want to be alerted whenever the data replication fails. its...
over 2 years ago in Databand / Integration 1 Future consideration

Add Python 3.12 and 3.13 binary wheel distributions for CPLEX

The Python Package Index only contains distributions of CPLEX for 3.11 (see https://pypi.org/project/cplex/#files). Please upload wheels for Python 3.12 and 3.13.
almost 2 years ago in CPLEX Optimization Studio / CPLEX Optimization Studio 1 Submitted

Ability to restrict custom runtime environment definitions to projects or/ and users

As a service provider I need the ability to define custom runtime environment definitions with different node-affinities. Not every tenant should be able to use e.g., node-affinities to large nodes. Therefore, I need to restrict the usage of custo...
about 3 years ago in Watson Studio 0 Not under consideration

add doopl in the CPLEX distribution

relying on docplex python API got much easier since docplex was included in the CPLEX product. doopl which is a python package that allows to call OPL model from python code can be download from https://pypi.org/project/doopl/ but having doopl in ...
over 5 years ago in CPLEX Optimization Studio / CPLEX Optimization Studio 1 Future consideration