Major UI, Interactivity, and Data Management Enhancements in IBM DOC 4.0.3 by DecisionBrain

DecisionBrain
Decision Optimization Center
3 min readJan 6, 2023

IBM DOC (Decision Optimization Center) 4.0.3 gives optimization developers the power to prototype, build, test and deploy custom enterprise planning, scheduling and logistics optimization applications built on both open source and industry-leading solver CPLEX , and with highly intuitive and interactive user interfaces (UI).

The latest version of IBM DOC includes several UI enhancements, such as:

  • New interactive map widget, useful for strategic design, routing and logistics applications among others. Highly customizable design with support for different languages, fonts, colors — control every aspect of your map.
DOC Dashboard widgets
DOC Dashboard widgets
  • New horizontal chart widget, useful for displaying data with long category names or a large number of categories
DOC Dashboard horizontal chart
DOC Dashboard horizontal chart
  • New calendar widget for easily displaying events by day/week/month or by list — useful for planning and scheduling applications across various time horizons
DOC Dashboard calendar
  • Streamlined data type mapping to easily incorporate Tableau widgets into dashboards
DOC Dashboard map
DOC Dashboard map
  • Conditional formatting in data-grids to enable a more Excel-like experience for users
DOC Dashboard data cells
DOC Dashboard data cells
  • New Composite Widgets — enables a widget to be composed of 2 or more widgets separated by a draggable split bar or organized into tabs

IBM DOC 4.0.3 also includes the following enhancements:

  • Support for Mac M1/M2 so that users can scaffold, build, run and deploy applications from the latest Macs powered by Apple Silicon CPUs
  • Job auto-cleaning — For application deployed into production, job auto-cleaning can automatically remove old jobs based on max-age and/or the maximum number of jobs to keep in the database
  • Library updates, including support for Keycloak-19 — Quarkus distribution, which improves application startup time and resource usage

Find out more information in the documentation page.

DecisionBrain delivers custom decision support software that is used to solve the world’s hardest planning, scheduling & logistics optimization problems. With over 400 person-years of experience in operations research and mathematical optimization, DecisionBrain helps where packaged applications fall short.

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DecisionBrain
Decision Optimization Center

We combine Optimization, ML and AI techniques to create innovative and customizable AI-based decision-support solutions that drive operational efficiency