JMP Wish List

JMP does an amazing job of chugging along so even long analyses get done eventually (unless there are hardware limitations). However, sometimes these long processes are kicked off on accident or without realizing how long they will actually take.   I would like to suggest a way to kill the current process so the single thing I started stops, but I don't have to force close all of JMP and lose any other work I have going on. I know myself, and many colleagues, have done these things - from an accidental click to a botched while loop - so a way to save JMP from this 'killer process' would be greatly appreciated! ... View more

☐ cool new feature ☐ could help many users! ☐ removes a „bug“ ☑ nice to have ☐ nobody needs it   What inspired this wish list request?  I want to clean up a data table with a few hundred columns. A few columns are used in formulas and have to be replaced by new columns. The remaining columns can be deleted. When deleting the old columns, it is difficult to identify the columns which are used in column formulas.   What is the improvement you would like to see?  1) Please display a symbol next to columns that are used in Formulas.   2) Please provide a functionality to generate a formula lookup map. a) The map should list all formula columns with the columns used in the respective formula. b) In addition the Window should provide a list of all columns which are used in any Formula column.   e.g.    ratio = height / weight myequation= (height - weight)^sex   a) - ratio: height, weight - myequation: height, weight , sex   b)  - height - weight - sex   Part a) is useful to get an overview and to work on specific formulas,  Part b) is useful for batch-replace:  A right click menu should be available which allows to replace the specific column in ALL column formulas with a replacement column.   Why is this idea important?  Will help to edit column formulas after changes of the input column names.   more wishes by   ... View more

What inspired this wish list request? I use multi-layer "Group X" in graph builder often to look efficiently at multiple categorical outputs (and especially nice when I want to bin continuous outputs).  However, if I have a lot of levels then the Group X axis can smash the data up too much.   What is the improvement you would like to see? I would like to be able to stack another column under the column used in the "Wrap" view in Graph builder. So go from this: to this:         Why is this idea important? This allows more the Group X axis to be more useful when looking at two columns you'd like to stack in the axis (and frees up even more drilling down possibilities since now Overlay can be used for a third column)   Thanks Steve     ... View more

What inspired this wish list request? Managing jmp licenses can be tedious if we have a lot of licenses and employees resign or arrive. Corporate user management systems (like Active Directory or other SSOs) always need to be up to date, so if we can have an API to add or remove users on my.jmp.com, that would be very useful.   What is the improvement you would like to see? All actions that we can do manually in the my.jmp.com console should be possible with API and be documented.   Why is this idea important? Manage jmp automatically and not manually. ... View more

What inspired this wish list request? Please describe the current issue that needs improvement or the problem to be solved that is not easy or possible right now, with an example use case. If the design you are augmenting is in a split-plot structure, you can specify the total number of runs, but not the number of whole plots. Suppose an initial design had 5 whole plots with 25 runs, then if I increase the design size to 40 runs, Augment Design automatically assigns 3 new whole plots as it must be 5 runs per whole plot. With sequential experimentation, that could easily change and if 3 runs are desired per whole plots, we may want those 15 additional runs to span 5 whole plots instead of 3 to improve the design evaluation criteria.   What is the improvement you would like to see? Please describe the idea for improving JMP. Please include mock-ups, wireframes, screenshots, scripts, other documents or examples from other software that help describe the change you would like to see. In Custom Design, a split-plot experiment lets you specify the "Number of Whole Plots" as well as the "Number of Runs." Augment Design only lets you have the latter, but including the former should be simple and can easily mirror what is already familiar to users in Custom Design.   In my specific example, it may look like this:   Why is this idea important? Please describe the value to you and/or other users if the idea is implemented (for example, ease of use, must have,…).The Custom Design platform offers great flexibility for experimenters to design the right experiments for their problems. Since Augment Design uses similar methodology, offering that flexibility is another value-added improvement. ... View more

☐ cool new feature ☑ could help many users! ☑ feels like a „bug“ ☐ nice to have ☐ nobody needs it   Short: Remove this "bug": ... and this one:             Long: What inspired this wish list request?  If reports are open, Jmp is not able to sort a data table: https://community.jmp.com/t5/Discussions/How-to-update-table-after-sorting/m-p/659014/highlight/true#M84836    Same issue for data tables with linked subsets: sorting and concatenating data to the data table doesn't work. Similar issue if a user wants to add rows to a data table .   linked subset: sort → no add rows → no concatenate → no   open report: sort → no add rows → yes concatenate → yes   What is the improvement you would like to see?  Please remove the restrictions.   e.g. "cut the link", like it's done for linked summary tables: sort → no [why does SORT not "cut the link"?!?] add rows → yes² concatenate → yes²   ² JMP automatically cuts the link:     Why is this idea important?  It's very likely that a user opened a linked subset, a linked summary table or a report before he tries to sort a table or add new rows. Therefore, JMP users face this issue very often.       more wishes by     ... View more

The main data source for new JMP users will always be Excel. These can be messy, and probably used as database with manual input for KPI tracking, for example. However, neither the Excel add-in, nor the Excel wizard provide a simple way to update file from its source. This is a common request that can be found in this forum, multiple times, and all of them require scripting (see examples below). You can see the understandable response of beginners, that are drag into a complex solution to a simple request. Updating columns, adding new rows, adding new columns, all of these are complex concepts that require several steps and getting into automation via JSL or Automation Builder. JMP needs to include a wizard to automatically generate a script that reads and updates the current data table in place. https://community.jmp.com/t5/Discussions/Automatically-update-quot-source-quot-file/td-p/324299 https://community.jmp.com/t5/Virtual-JMP-Users-Group/How-to-update-a-JMP-data-table-to-reflect-Excel-updates/td-p/228625 https://community.jmp.com/t5/Discussions/How-do-I-automatically-update-JMP-data-table-while-populating/td-p/247303 ... View more

☐ cool new feature ☐ could help many users! ☐ removes a bug ☑ nice to have ☐ nobody needs it   What inspired this wish list request?  In the blog post How to detect small shifts in Control Charts     @AnnieDudley  introduces CUSUM plot in JMP14, shows useful it is to detect small shifts. The blog post illustrates as well  that tiny differences of the target value can lead to significant differences of the CUSUM plot.   In order to get a feeling for the sensitivity and to gain new insights, it might be helpful if the target setting could be adjusted more easily, e.g. with a slider.   What is the improvement you would like to see?  Please add a slider for the target value.   dt=Open("$SAMPLE_DATA/Quality Control/Engine Temperature Sensor.jmp"); cus = CUSUM Control Chart( Y( :Y ), Target( 102 ), Sigma( 10 ) ); // works with any CUSUM Plot //vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv rcus = current report()[OutlineBox(1)]; neb=rcus["Control Panel",NumberEditBox(1)]; startvalue=neb << get(); rcus["Control Panel",LineUpBox(1)] << prepend (slider box (startvalue-10, startvalue+10, value, neb << set (value )) ) << prepend(Text box("")) Why is this idea important?  not important. User could play with the target setting and get new insights.       other wishes from  ... View more

In manufacturing is very common to handle datasets with more than a hundred columns, each corresponding to a sensor. Manufacturing systems have a tree hierarchy that is defined in PI AF (also used in JMP 17 and PI to find the sensor names).   This information is lost when moved to a JMP table.  We open-sourced an add-in to reorganize columns (see image and code here)   However, JMP only allows two levels (parent group and child), which is very limiting in terms of organization and analysis. For manufacturing data, multiple grouping levels are a must-have or users won't be able to use JMP for their daily tasks in manufacturing (too much information to handle).   Please have a look at PI AF to understand how engineers are used to finding data. This information can be coded into a column property. This metadata can eventually allow users to swap analysis between assets. ... View more

DUPLICATE OF Allow secondary or alternate column names  ☑ cool new feature ☑ could help many users! ☐ removes a „bug“ ☐ nice to have ☐ nobody needs it #myTop10_2024   What inspired this wish list request?  Often incoming data is quite cryptic and some data curation is needed. Jmp already provides nice solutions, which help the user to curate the data "on the fly", like recode.   Many of the curation steps are "persistent" - such that no further curation is needed when the data table gets updated with the latest data: - formula columns - column property: Value Label - ...   A special issue are column names: Ho to handle cryptic Column names?  Here there is a clear trade-off between human-readability and compatibility to incoming data.   - The user might rename a column -  but then the data table cannot be updated anymore. - the user might add an additional column with the correct name and link it to the original column by a column formula - but this approach is just useful for a few column names. - possibility to give columns different names in different languages - save the alternative name as a new column parameter + Script to toggle between original and alternative column names.   https://community.jmp.com/t5/Discussions/Ho-to-handle-cryptic-Column-names/m-p/722751/highlight/true#M90501    I guess everyone has found their own workaround to deal with the problem. Surprisingly, there is no "official" solution, like column alias   What is the improvement you would like to see?  Please add a new column property: Column alias If a column alias is defined, - the alias column name replaces the column name in the table header, all lists, reports, plots and views. - the alias column name can be used alternatively in filters (so the user can search with the original and the alternative name) - it can be used in Table operations like update and concatenate - as an alternative to the original column name     Why is this idea important?  Significant simplification of data curation :) more wishes submitted by   ... View more

What inspired this wish list request?  The limitation of column switcher, that we cannot have same column used in multiple roles without running in all sorts of issues.   What is the improvement you would like to see?  I would like to see new switcher which would allow me to change the columns used in Roles instead of columns. You define which role in your report you wish to modify selections for, you select which columns include in that switcher and then it would work in similar manner as column switcher WITHOUT the worry that there would be collisions as those would be allowed.   Why is this idea important?  It would allow us to swap columns used for different roles without worry that the column is already used in other role at the same time.   This could maybe be combined with New filter "Column Filter" a combination of Local Data Filter and Column Switcher (better name for that suggestion could be for example Role Switcher or Column Quick Swapper like I did rename the add-in) ... View more

☐ cool new feature ☑ could help many users! ☑ removes something that feels like a „bug“ ☐ nice to have ☐ nobody needs it   Short: Graph builder needs this function:       Long: What inspired this wish list request?  Every Jmp user knows this issue: when you invested 15 minutes to optimize your Graph Builder plot, added some subplots, added some categories and then the legend looks like this - and you need another 15 minutes to figure out which entry in the legend corresponds to which subplot.   When computers started to have several video outputs, computer users had a similar issue: which monitor setting belongs to which monitor ?!?!?   And the programmers had a great invention: an Identify button. The user just has to click the button and numbers will appear: 1) in the overview 2) on each monitor   What is the improvement you would like to see?  1) I want the same functionality for Graph builder. An Identify Button . When a user clicks the button, numbers should appear in the Frameboxes and in the legend: [extreme case to illustrate the unbelievalble help of the suggested function]   ") please also add a button to "reset" the sequence of entries in the legend to a default setting: all entries from the first subplot, then all entries from the second subplot ....   Why is this idea important?  Nowadays it's very difficult to use different color coding in different subplots - as soon as a new subplot is added, all the color settings are scrambled. The unpredictable sequence of entries in the legend makes it almost impossible to efficiently adjust the settings.         more wishes from  ... View more

Thanks to Russ Wolfinger and JMP Super-Users like @SDF1, there are now add-ins that allow easy tuning of hyperparameters for XGBoost, neural nets, bootstrap forests, and others, but I would really like to see these integrated into JMP. One thing I would like to do is test out thousands of neural networks with multiple Y's, which cannot yet be done with the add-in (and is not possible at all for XGBoost, as far as I can tell).      Sometimes, we need to predict more than one thing. For instance, maybe you want to optimize a process while minimizing costs. With several JMP modeling platforms, you can create a two-Y model, then use the desirability analysis under the profiler to do this, but you cannot build thousands of dual-Y models using neural networks, bootstrap forests, or even standard least squares. I think this would really increase the capacity of JMP Pro to do some hardcore predictive modeling.      ... View more

What inspired this wish list request? Please describe the current issue that needs improvement or the problem to be solved that is not easy or possible right now, with an example use case. The Analyze tab in the Easy DOE platform gives a cool plot of the model terms included in the chosen model along with associated confidence intervals. Easy DOE is better for newer users, but more intermediate/advanced users could benefit from this graphical display as well. The full reference to the plot is found here - Analyze (jmp.com).   What is the improvement you would like to see? Please describe the idea for improving JMP. Please include mock-ups, wireframes, screenshots, scripts, other documents or examples from other software that help describe the change you would like to see. Implementing this in either the Fit Least Squares or Generalized Regression platforms (it would look good potentially as an option near the Solution Path graphs).   Why is this idea important? Please describe the value to you and/or other users if the idea is implemented (for example, ease of use, must have,…). Being able to harmonize output across platforms can be important to the user experience. A newer engineer leveraging Easy DOE can make a nice plot that a more experienced engineer that is using standard menus such as Fit Model are unable to reproduce. Easy DOE is also more of a front-to-back, end-to-end bundle of content for a DOE, so it is difficult to just get a singular extraction from the platform. It would be simpler to implement the Effect Plot in other model-fitting platforms.     ... View more

☐ cool new feature ☑ could help many users! ☐ removes a „bug“ ☐ nice to have ☐ nobody needs it   What inspired this wish list request? The Query Builder in Jmp is nice to generate SQL queries via a GUI. But there are queries which cannot be generated via the GUI: Database access  With JMP 17, In the query builder, how can add "WITH UR" at the end of the SQL code?    The only solution at the moment: change to custom SQL - and at that moment lose all GUI options to make further changes to the query.   What is the improvement you would like to see?  Please improve the GUI to provide advanced SQL option: - add the functionality to "explode" entries and "index" column entries - allow the user to manually enter advanced SQL strings - which then can be added at specific positions of the main SQL query string.     Why is this idea important?  Users are not forced anymore to abandon the Query Builder when they have to add an expression to their query which is not supported by the Query Builder GUI.         more wishes submitted by   ... View more

What inspired this wish list request?  Trying to utilize column groups more and more to group data and sometimes I get very confused where this column belongs -> I have a script to prefix all my columns with their group names.     What is the improvement you would like to see?  Give an option to add column group name as prefix (or suffix) to the columns. In best case this would be some sort of an virtual name we could see in JMP platforms and column list selectors but column names would still be left as the "original" ones. Maybe this would have to be some sort of a column property like we have Short name / Long name.     Why is this idea important?  Makes it easier to utilize column groups and seeing where my column belongs (for example in graph builder I would immediately see that by X belongs to "Response group" and Y to "Predicted group").     ... View more

☑ cool new feature ☑ could help many users! ☑ removes something that feels like a „bug“ ☐ nice to have ☐ nobody needs it   What inspired this wish list request?  Some functions in Jmp take a very long time to get finished. There is a request toSpeed up Tables/Update , because it can take hours to be executed. "Get rows where" is taking way to long  Another issue: Life Distribution. Depending on the size of the data table, the user has to wait for hours: https://community.jmp.com/t5/Discussions/how-to-make-cumulative-probability-plots-in-JMP/m-p/717879/highlight/true#M89957 another application case: Database queries. They can be executed in the background. But then the query cannot be included in a script. The next part of the script has to wait for the data to arrive. Would be great if there was an option to interrupt the query if it takes too long.   For all these cases, it could help to cancel the activity after a specified Timeout interval:   What is the improvement you would like to see?  Option: For Try(), please add a possibility to specify a timeout interval. If the execution of the code takes longer, the script is stopped and the table is reverted to the initial state.Timeout of the try function   Please add a timeout parameter in the preferences. if the user specifies a timeout of 10 minutes, If starting a platform or executing an action takes longer than 10 minutes, the execution is stopped. For actions which alter the data table, the table is restored to the point before starting executing the action. This should be possible because most actions in Jmp have an undo function. I guess a recovery point is stored before starting the action?   Why is this idea important?  There is a Wish from 2020 with 79 Kudos:Kill process without killing JMP ! So, it seems that there is an extreme demand here, but it also seems to be extremely complicated to fulfill the users' wish.   The Timeout concept could be an easy solution. Every user will accept to wait 10 minutes (and get a coffee - or two) instead of losing the results of many hours because an action in Jmp takes orders of magnitude longer than the user expected. more wishes by ... View more

☐ cool new feature ☐ could help many users! ☐ removes a „bug“ ☑ nice to have ☐ nobody needs it     What inspired this wish list request?  It's great that there is a list of "builtin" presets in the Format Pattern dialog. Unfortunately, some of our files use  2-3 additional formats which are not in the list.   What is the improvement you would like to see?  Please provide an option to store the current pattern to  "user defined" in the list of presets.   Why is this idea important?  Once a user encountered a format pattern that is not in the list  it is very likely that he will see it again and again - especially when loading the same type of data. Then it could help a lot if the user could specify the special patterns on the first encounter and all the other times: just pick the stored pattern from the list. more wishes by   ... View more

What inspired this wish list request? I will get graph builder to a state that looks really good for exploring data, fitted to my whole screen, and I will need to make some changes to the layout.  It is inconvenient to have to show the control panel, make the change and then remove the control panels.  For example, I may want to overlay a factor for one or two items in a column switcher then remove it for the remaining ones.  Or I may want to change the variables that a smoother respects.     What is the improvement you would like to see? I would like to see the ability for the Graph builder controls be in a floating window, so elements change be changed without having to open and close the "fixed" control panel.   So have a window that looks like this where it won't show any data but shows the general layout and chart elements that you can manipulate but can be on another monitor so you can change the layout of the chart but not affect the viewing of the data. Maybe even have the ability for the filter and column switcher to live in this floating window as well   Why is this idea important? I think will allow for the following Keep the flexibility of exploring the data while allowing the data viewing area to be as large as possible Some efficiency gains by not having to turn on and off the control panel Allow the control panel to be accessed even if you have to scroll down to a "tall" chart layout Takes advantage of multiple monitors     ... View more