The Nonlinear Programming Solver

Table 8.1 summarizes the options that can be used with the SOLVE WITH NLP statement.

Table 8.1: Options for the NLP Solver

Description	Option
Multistart Options
Specifies the maximum range of values that each variable can take during the sampling process	MSBNDRANGE=
Specifies the tolerance for local optima to be considered distinct	MSDISTTOL=
Specifies the time limit in multistart mode	MSMAXTIME=
Specifies the number of starting points to be used by multistart	MSMAXSTARTS=
Specifies the seed used to generate random numbers	SEED=
Optimization Options
Specifies the optimization technique	ALGORITHM=
Directs the local solver to start from multiple initial points	MULTISTART
Output Options
Specifies the frequency of printing solution progress (local solvers)	LOGFREQ=
Specifies the amount of printing solution progress in multistart mode	MSLOGLEVEL=
Specifies the allowable types of output solution	SOLTYPE=
Solver Options
Specifies the feasibility tolerance	FEASTOL=
Specifies the type of Hessian used by the solver	HESSTYPE=
Specifies the maximum number of iterations	MAXITER=
Specifies the time limit for the optimization process	MAXTIME=
Specifies the upper limit on the objective	OBJLIMIT=
Specifies the convergence tolerance	OPTTOL=
Specifies units of CPU time or real time	TIMETYPE=