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    LSF must not ignore empty groups if they are managed by egroup

    When running `badmin reconfig`, LSB ignores lines with empty groups: Aug 25 16:22:20 2025 11385 4 10.1 do_Groups: File /opt/lsf/conf/lsbatch/XXXX/configdir/lsb.users at line 50: No valid member in group <XXXX>; ignoring line this is ok for g...
    4 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Other 1 Needs more information

    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

    Make vm_type details in lsb. Acct file

    vm_type is field is available only on event file . Can this be made available for Acct file as well? We extract lot of job information from Acct file so it will be good if we get vm_type details in the same file
    over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Other 0 Future consideration

    IBM Z Common Data Provider template for the User Define SMF Record Type 249 cut by DVM

    The customer is using IBM Z Common Data Provider (zCDP) to stream SMF records in real-time to their Splunk. zCDP provides policies for all the non user define SMF records, the SMF249 is a user define record, hence zCDP can't reference o it, so it ...
    over 4 years ago in CPLEX Optimization Studio 3 Planned for future release

    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

    support job submission from standalone container

    currently, when trying to submit a job from a standalone we have a eauth error: Oct 15 17:37:44 2024 1467470 3 10.1 isRetryErrorType: Error type <79> is not defined in LSB_BSUB_ERR_RETRY. Failed in an LSF library call: External authenticatio...
    11 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Other 0 Planned for future release

    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

    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

    OPL port for z/OS

    We are looking at CPLEX on zOS.Today, only compiling a C++ program can be used to drive CPLEX on the z platform. It would be much easier to be able to inject OPL directly in (concert, part of ) CPLEX for z/OS.
    about 5 years ago in CPLEX Optimization Studio 0 Future consideration

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