JSL handles for simulator settings

[andrewtkarl]

Please expand the list of messages that can be sent to a simulator object so that we can get/set the distribution and ranges for each factor.

[Sarah-Sylvestre]

Thank you for submitting this request!

[mia_stephens]

Hi @andrewtkarl, you can set the distributions and std deviations via JSL. Can you please provide more information on the change(s) you'd like to see? Thanks!

[mia_stephens]

Hi @andrewtkarl , following up on this request. See the previous comment. Can you please provide additional information? Thank you!

[andrewtkarl]

Thanks, Mia. I am going to do my best to recall the things I was hoping to see:

• First, a more general Profiler() wish is to have a way to retrieve the current predictions at each response in the profiler (given the current factor settings). Ideally returned as something easy to parse such as a list of response names and a list of values. We can use 

  <<get factor settings
  

  to see the factor settings (and that returns a syntax that is sort of challengign to parse) but surprisingly there is not a corresponding <<get response values
• For a simulator object, I belive I was hoping to see a richer vesion of <<get factor settings that would also return information about the current simulator setup for each factor (distribution and range). This was for a script that was automatically working with a table script containing a simulator and I needed to access that information and instead was having to do a lot of parsing instead of just being able to message the simulator object to <<get factor simulator settings.
• I also think I was hoping to have a simpler syntax to change the distribution of the factors in the simulator. For example, if we had a richer <<Get factor simulator settings message where we could loop over the factors in the simulator and send a message to each if we wanted to change the distribution (just using the default distribution parameters). By simpler I mean something that would allow us to specify the name as a string instead of having to parse the name into the correct format with :"[name]"\n delimiters needed when there are special characters.

Hopefully those all make sense.

[andrewtkarl]

One clarification:

https://community.jmp.com/t5/JMP-Wish-List/Add-Profiler-JSL-message-quot-lt-lt-get-response-values-q...

has added a <<get responses message for Profiler. But in my first bullet point I was thinking of the need to have a <<get response names message to get a list of the responsese those values correspond to.