JMP Wish List

Axis lines in previous JMP versions for overlay plots used to be fairly visible, black and thickness of 2, I recall. Now those axis lines (and tick marks) are gray and very thin. Official response to questions was that it was changed to focus more on what was graphed instead of the background frame/structure. Graphs are for communication, so easily visible axis lines are important. Per user suggestions, one work-around is add a reference line around 0 on x-axis (to draw on top of y-axis) and simliarly on y-axis (to draw on top of x-axis). That helps a little but does not help show tick marks and does not stay with the axis if one changes the axis range. Please fix this. Many of us now use JMP for presentation graphs and the default lines are way too faint to be useful.  ... View more

I would like to be able to use my JMP Pro License either on my laptop/desktop or in Amazon Web Services, rather than buying two separate licenses. ... View more

JMP is the best platform for enabling many user profiles to exploit very powerful analytics capabilities without having to write code.  The other side of that is, if we want to automate and/or reproduce this work we need to write code (jsl).  Why don't you create a no-code option to create reproducible workflows to make work reproducible, easy to interpret, easy to explain to others.  We have other platforms at my company which offer this capability and we see that people sandbox in JMP but then move their work to these other platforms to build it into a reproducible workflow using a no-code solution.  I believe Enterprise Miner has a capability similar to what I'm describing.  I personally find Dataiku Data Science Studio to be the best platform to enable this capability, it certainly has the best UI, UX and integration....but it does not have the data exploration capabilities and quickness to insights that JMP provides.  You guys should marry these two ideas.   Note, I know you probably want to tell me that JMP writes the code for you in the background to help you reproduce the work.  That's great, but that's not the solution which is needed nor desired by our users.  We want to abstract users completely from the code as much as possible. ... View more

In continuation of this exchange: Interactions in OLS regression and simple slopes.    I would like to propose that JMP in a similar manner to SPSS Process or simple R scripts would include in multiple regressions that calculate interactions between variables, the independent value of each variable slope and not only their additive value.  ... View more

I saw there is an IOS app called JMP graph builder. That is great. However, I do not own an IOS device. I'm not gonna give you the talk about how insanely overpriced they are or how they lock you in a system... Anyhow, I own android devices.   Android is 74.3% market share for mobile operating systems (https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/mobile/worldwide). Why limit yourself to IOS ??   Please make an Android app :)       ... View more

I have been running into this issue recently : I wanted to have a jsl script edit another script that is embedded inside a data table.   Currently, the best I can do is get the script with the message: dt<< get script () ; I get the content of the script as a string which I can edit, then I can save it using :   dt<< save script (); The problem is it can only make a copy and not save to an existing scrîpt. If I use the same name, it will simply add a '2' at the end of the name.   I guess I could save it as number 2, erase the first one, then rename the number 2 to have the original name but this seems a bit tedious and dangerous to do...    So, what I propose, is a dt<<Edit script (); message. While we're at it, why not make data table scripts into scriptable objects ? With a way to refer to them, like dt:myscript. Like this they could receive a bunch of messages like all the other objects within JMP.                 ... View more

I would like propose an update so that a preference (or some other method) is in place for how outline boxes, especially the default one, are handled during copy / paste operations - for graph builder, specifically (although it could be merged into other platforms). This preference would allow the user to control whether or not the default outline box was copied / pasted when the user selects it for copying. In JMP 15, an feature was implemented which automatically removes the outline box from the image when copying / pasting from Graph Builder. This feature removes the need to manually select each graph with the control key to copy / paste when the titles are effectively part of the graph builder output. Additionally, JMP implemented it so that editing the outline box would force keep it when copying / pasting so user adjustments were maintained. However, if a user wants to keep the outline box(es) it is just as annoying to change each title so it is maintained as it is to manually control click each graph to avoid copying the outline box. A preference would allow users to control their destiny and be the best of both worlds. ... View more

The column recode platform is a lot easier to use than the value label option.  It would be awesome to use the column recode platform and have an option to save as value labels in addition to the current options of a new column or formula or overwrite the existing column. ... View more

It would be awesome if JMP would incorporate a platform that allows for process mapping. This software is key on being interactive and would certainly benefit from having the capability to add Process Mapping to the tool portfolio. JMP already has a process screening platform, but to increase value, having a process mining/mapping platform that would allow for process improvement and automation opportunities that rivals softwares such as DISCO and Celonis, but also free source including the BupaR process map package in R. ... View more

The new JMP15 Cols>Utilities>Recode Column Names looks like a handy way to make bulky column names shorter. However, I often actually need to retain the information held in those original column names, no matter how convenient in the short term the new short name is. It would be nice if the original long name could optionally be saved to the Column Info Notes Property or some equivalent.   An additional feature would be if I could switch back and forth between the short and long versions of the names. I'd use the short names during my analyses, but the long name for presentations.  ... View more

I've created a toolbar that contains numerous Custom JSL Scripts that I've written.  I would like to change the order/grouping of these items on the toolbar but can neither drag/drop them to new locations nor do I find any commands for moving or adjusting the position of items within the Toolbar.  The best I've been able to figure out, which is rather clunky and time-consuming, is to create a new command where I want it located in my toolbar list, copy over each of the various fields into this new command, and then delete the original command.     Please add ability to move items in Toolbar Customization screen, either drag/drop or move up/move down capability. ... View more

ODBC libraries typically provide the ability to create parameterized queries that pass the query and parameters to the database separately.  This basically eliminates the risk of SQL injection attacks, but is also very convenient from a programming standpoint.  Because JMP has ODBC queries, it should also have parameterized queries so that you can do:   Execute SQL(database, "Select * from Employees where Name like ? and Status=?", "BobList", {"Bob", "Active"} ); pyodbc's parameterized queries: https://github.com/mkleehammer/pyodbc/wiki/Getting-started#parameters   The .NET ecosystem's parameterized queries: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.data.odbc.odbccommand.parameters?redirectedfrom=MSDN&view=dotnet-plat-ext-5.0#System_Data_Odbc_OdbcCommand_Parameters   ... View more

The JMP Query Builder is a lovely piece when accessing databases and not knowing much SQL. However, when querying large data bases with millions of records, I have two suggestions: 1) before starting a query that might accidentally call thousands of big records in wide tables, either give a warning like: "you are about to query for x lines. Do you want to continue?) or showing a preview on how many records your query would results. That would help my colleques with no SQL knowledge avoiding sending big queries to our database! 2) adding the possibility to add the SQL limit command to your query, e.g. setting the maximum number of records in the query to 500. In SQL you can do this by adding limit 500 to the end of your SQL statement, but interactively in the query builder would be nice. ... View more

The Overlay drop zone in Graph Builder is my favorites -- in my mind, it means "make a new line with a new color for each different value of this variable".   I would love to see it broken into two boxes -- "Overlay-Color" and "Overlay-Style".   GB would change the color for the variable dropped onto Overlay-Color, and the line style for the variable dropped onto Overlay-Style.  This would allow the user to easily create solid, dashed, etc., lines in different colors.   ... View more

The addition of quantile regression to the generalized regression platform was/is very welcome. It would also be nice if pseudo rsquare and other goodness of fit measures for quantile regression could be provided in the results. Thanks. ... View more

Pop quiz! Question 1 Suppose you have a function GetCurrentValue which gets the current value of user certain interface objects, and returns missing (.) for others.  Suppose you have a list of interface objects (AllInterfaceObjects).   Will this work? UserValues = Transform Each({object}, AllInterfaceObjects, GetCurrentValue(object)); FilteredValues = Filter Each({value}, UserValues, !Is Missing(value)); Answer: Depends on what kind of values GetCurrentValue returns.  Suppose GetCurrentValue returns (checkbox << Get Selected Indices()) for checkbox items.  If you apply IsMissing to the list of indices you do not get a boolean literal, you get a  list of booleans. !IsMissing({1,2,3}) = {1,1,1} Because a list of booleans is not True, Filter Each will remove it!  That means FilteredValue will not contain your list, even though your list was not missing. Question 2 As you may or may not know, Create Database Connection is a function for creating database connections.  It returns a database connection on success, and missing on failure. Does this work? connection = Create Database Connection(magicString); if( !Is Missing(connection), RunSomeQuery(connection), Print("I have failed to connect") ); Answer: Nope.  Is Missing returns an error, complaining that it expects numeric values. My Proposal Make the use of missing (.) and Is Missing more disciplined.  Do not magically thread the function through lists, tell me if the variable holding the list is missing or not.   If Is Missing cannot handle your success, do not use missing to signal failure.     ... View more

Please can you make it possible to set the preferences for standard deviation decimal places in the Categorical Report? There is an option for means, but not st dev. ... View more

Using "Page" in Graph Builder I can get changes to broadcast nicely to all graphs, but using "By" I am unable to get that broadcasting. I would appreciate being able to use the Ctrl key to get a change on one graph to propagate to all graphs when using "By".   E.g., if I open Graph Builder, click "Dialog", add a nominal X, continuous Y, nominal Page, then it produces a set of point plots. By holding Ctrl and clicking on the "box plot" icon, it transforms all the plots into box plot. Nice!   However, if I open Graph Builder, click "Dialog", add a nominal X, continous Y, nominal By, again it produces a set of point plots. But when I Ctrl + click "box plot", only one graph is transformed into a box plot, the rest of the graphs remain as point plots. Not so nice.   I would like if "Page" and "By" behaved the same in this sense - holding Ctrl while making changes broadcasts those changes to all plots. ... View more

I would like to see variability charts saved as interactive HTML have interactive features. Variability charts are saved as pictures without interactive features in the latest version of JMP, JMP 14.  ... View more