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This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data Platform organization. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).


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Enable query results to be exported in Excel (.xlsx) format in addition to CSV.

Currently, users in Query Workspace can only download query results in CSV format. Many customers request the ability to also export results as Excel files (.xlsx), as Excel is the most commonly used format for internal reporting, data sharing, an...
about 1 month ago in watsonx.data 0 Submitted

Add Python 3.14 binary wheel distributions for CPLEX

Add Python 3.14 binary wheel distributions for CPLEX The Python Package Index only contains distributions of CPLEX up to and including 3.12 (see https://pypi.org/project/cplex/#files). Please upload wheels for Python 3.14 (yes - let's skip 3.13 en...
13 days ago in CPLEX Optimization Studio / CPLEX Optimization Studio 0 Submitted

Resource Limits are not available to set as part of installation. These need to be set at deployment level. We've manually assigned as part of namespace and the same resource limits will be applied to all the pods

Resource Limits are not available to set as part of installation. These need to be set at deployment level. We've manually assigned as part of namespace and the same resource limits will be applied to all the pods
21 days ago in watsonx.data 0 Submitted

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

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

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

Empty links in CPLEX Optimization Studio Documentation

There are many 'empty' links/pages in the CPLEX Optimization Studio Documentation when I search for topics. I limit the scope to CPLEX and IDE, but still get many, many blank results. I spend a great deal of time clicking through blank pages to fi...
over 1 year ago in CPLEX Optimization Studio / CPLEX Optimization Studio 0 Submitted

Add maximal delay constraint for startBeforeStart, startBeforeEnd, ... constraints

I often have a constraint between interval variables that limit the maximum delay between the start/end and start/end of interval variables. I'd like a native, efficient method for implementing this constraint. I currently use constraints using fu...
over 1 year ago in CPLEX Optimization Studio / CPLEX Optimization Studio 0 Submitted

Add git support to CPLEX Optimization Studio

We request to add on-prem GitHub integration into IBM CPLEX Optimization Studio to version control OPL models, datasets, and options files. We’d like to add functionality to clone a repository, commit/sync to a repository, to create/switch between...
over 1 year ago in CPLEX Optimization Studio / CPLEX Optimization Studio 0 Submitted

Restore documentation to CPLEX Studio installer

CPLEX Studio 22.1.2 did away with the "doc" folder containing documentation for the components, including in particular the Javadoc documentation for the Java API to CPLEX. Having a local copy of the reference manuals is desirable when working off...
10 months ago in CPLEX Optimization Studio / CPLEX Optimization Studio 0 Submitted