CPLEX Studio 22.1.2 is now available for download, at least on most (possibly not all) supported platforms. The previous version was 22.1.1, and judging from the numbering I assume this is a fairly minor update. That's the good news. The bad news is that the new version no longer installs documentation.
Previous versions created a folder named "doc" in the main folder (parallel to "concert", "cplex", "cpoptimizer" etc.). Under the "doc" folder, if you drilled down a couple of levels, were all sorts of manuals. Particularly important to me were the "refjavacplex" and "refjavacpoptimizer" folders, which contained Javadoc documentation that could be integrated into an IDE (NetBeans in my case) for Java programming. It was also convenient to have the reference manuals installed locally, so that I could bookmark them in my browser and access them even if I was working offline.
Version 22.1.2 does not install the "doc" folder. The reference manuals are still available online if you know where to look (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/icos/22.1.2), but I do not see a way to make that work as Javadoc in an IDE (and, of course, it is only available when you are online, unless you want to web-scrape it to get a local copy).
I've submitted an "idea" to restore the documentation to the download. If you too want it back, please vote for the suggestion. I would have no objection to it being a separate download, but taking away the Javadoc really seems a bit unfriendly to me.
Meanwhile, I am linking my IDE to the Javadoc for version 22.1.1 and hoping that nothing much has changed.
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