JMP Wish List

When using a non-parametric test in the Fit Y by X oneway analysis platform the chart would stick with the default of showing mean values (group means or overall mean). It would make more sense to have a chart display that matches the type of analysis being selected. ... View more

What inspired this wish list request?  It's not simple to ask a column whether the checkbox in the column info for Use Thousands Separator is checked.  You can set it as part of << set format.  You can currently find out how it's set via << get format but only if it's different from the overall Preference under Tables, Use Thousands Separator. If it matches the preference it's just not mentioned by << get format.  That had me baffled for a quite a while thinking there was just no way to get it.  So you have to check both things and you need to extract it out of the Format() expression returned by <<get format.  Not impossible but fiddly and potentially confusing when you don't see it returned at all.    Are there reasons to care?  It impacts the character strings you get a list of when you use Summarize and group by a numeric column that is using thousands separators. I ran into this as a bug in some old code that wasn't expecting the possibility that data that was 1000 as a numeric value might show up in the Summarize results as "1000" for one user but for a different user as "1,000".  It is just more robust to deal with the numbers and not make assumptions about the string form so I'm not actually using interrogating the column to fix that but the whole experience makes me think it would be worth having a simple way to learn this setting.    Another possibility could be wishing to turn this setting off for some particular scripting then turn it back on again and for that you do want to know what the original setting was.   What is the improvement you would like to see?  A message for a column "<< Get Use Thousands Separator".   My request would be to return a simple 1/0 answer to how the checkbox is set for a given column, that is the thing that matches how the data is actually formatted.    Why is this idea important?  This is a small thing and not impossible to do today but could be worth a look.  I may make myself a function for this but JMP support suggested I make a wish list item after we boggled over why it was not coming back from <<get format() for a while.    This could be a lot more straightforward and similar to how the other checkbox in column info (lock) can be interrogated.      ... View more

What inspired this wish list request?  @FN linked to a scikit-learn article in a comment on theValidation for Continuous Processing Data add-in page.  This is a better way to do cross validation with continuous process data and it reminded me that the techniques used in that add-in would be much more effective and used more often if they were built into the JMP. This situation applies to many analyses my colleagues and I do regularly with manufacturing data.   What is the improvement you would like to see?  - Incorporate grouping by time in to the made a validation column dialog box, including similar functionality to what is in the Add-in linked above to guide the user to an appropriate group size. - Add an option for an individual table so crossvalidation used everywhere in JMP uses a time-based method referenced in the link below instead of randomly assigning rows.   Why is this idea important? Although @DrewLuebe and I created the validation add-in linked above specifically to help users better understand the predictability of models in data sets that have correlation between rows, including autocorrelation, the built-in crossvalidation behavior and default validation still use per-row splits.  This means that many reported validation fit metrics are artificially better than the actual performance will be with new data .  By baking these techniques into JMP itself, users will have a much better understanding of their data and models no matter what tools they use.     ... View more

What inspired this wish list request? I often have a large number of windows that accumulate by the end of the day -- these include data tables and scripts.  Many of the tables / scripts are just tests and don't need to be saved, but many are important to save.  It would be nice to quickly see which are unsaved when looking at the window list.  Here is an example -- the black dot indicates that the two corresponding scripts are unsaved:     What is the improvement you would like to see? Have an indicator on the window list for unsaved scripts / data tables (and journals or anything else that makes sense)     Why is this idea important? If I simply close JMP and select (Save Individually), I then might have to cancel the save to check if a script has an actual needed change or simply was edited for testing purposes.  I then have to close, select "Save Individually" again, and repeat the process.  It can take 10 minutes sometimes.  It would help greatly if I could see visually which windows are unsaved, the I can simply go through the ones I care about and see if I need to save, then close with a "Save Non".     ... View more

For some reason the default font on most plots is set super low and is almost always impossible to read. I’ve been able to change the default setting to a larger global font, but sometimes this isn’t appropriate and I get huge text overlaid on top of  a relatively small plot. It would be nice if there was some sort of automatic scaling factor that could be applied to the text fonts depending on how big the plot windows are. ... View more

☐cool new feature ☑ could help many users! ☑ removes a „bug“ ☐ nice to have ☐ nobody needs it   What inspired this wish list request?  short: some remaining BUGS how Jmp handles dates and times. long: With Jmp 16, the import of date and time formats got a bit easier: How do I apply Custom Date (and Duration) Formats in JMP?    It's like a GUI version of Informat and provides features which before were just available via Date Formula Writer / Data Table Tools Add-in @brady_brady    But still, there are some time formats which cannot be imported correctly, like - Monday, March 22, 2023 5:06:07 +0100 - 2023-12-31T01:02:03.099Z     What is the improvement you would like to see?    Please optimize the functionality of the Input_Format option:   - add an autodetect button. One doesn't need AI to see that 2023-12-31 is YYYY-MM-DD          ... maybe the user just has to specify the meaning of +0100 - add a placeholder to read in the correct time zone offset (+0100) - add a placeholder to read in infos like CET, ET, ... - add a non-greedy placeholder - to tell Jmp to ignore all strings in front of the comma, like Monday, - or Montag, - add a history: Custom Time/Date Format Pattern: history  - add a way to specify default values: Input Format Pattern - default values  - add a display box and shot the first entry of the column -- like it's available in Date Formula Writer / Data Table Tools Add-in @brady_brady  - add support for ms time codes: https://community.jmp.com/t5/JMP-Wish-List/Date-Format-Pattern-additional-functionality/idc-p/736976/highlight/true#M5354    - <DayofWeek>, <Month>, <MMM> should be UNIVERSAL - please don't restrict the input to the local values. Actually similar to </> which produces a well defined output, but is very open with the input: ".",  "/" ... alternative: in InputFormat,  please provide a possibility to specify the regional settings e.g. in my system with german regional setting, I can read in "Freitag, März 20",  but not "Friday, March 20 " ! Please note that "Freitag" is replaced with "Sonntag" anyways  - so, even more frustrating that "Friday" is not allowed.   Why is this idea important?  Date and Time format import is one of THE annoying thing which users are frightened of. Jmp already provides some features which help a lot. But they feel like a Light version of Date Formula Writer / Data Table Tools Add-in from @brady_brady ...     other wishes from  ... View more

What inspired this wish list request?    When using the "Fit best" or "Fit All" options in the distribution platform or Capability Platform there are often times that the Normal Distribution(ND) is just as good as the selected non-normal distribution(NND) but the NND has a slightly lower AICc.  There is more functionality with the ND so I have to go and review all the NND that were selected and see if I could use the ND just as well.   What is the improvement you would like to see?    I would like to see the option to select a fit criteria (AICc or BIC) and the range in which I would consider the ND equivalent to the best selected distribution and if it is within that range the ND will be used.  So in this case from the semiconductor example data set I could have set a run that if the AICc of the ND was within 10 of the lowest AICc, then the ND would be selected.     Why is this idea important?    It is always better to use the ND when possible but there is no easy way right now to identify and then change the best identified distributions from a NND to a ND when there is a large number of columns in your analysis.   ... View more

  I frequently use Journals to capture snapshots of my output. I will then rearrange objects in the journal (typically so that things look more "square" or "wide" (since computer screens are wide, not tall, and JMP reports tends to be tall). Also Creating an outline box in the Journal to contain a section of analysis is a nice way to organize the journal. Then when I want to share it, my typical tool is powerpoint, but I would also like to use export to HTML.   Exporting to doesn't always work as I intend, because typically each outline box and sometimes text boxes in the display are exported as separate pages in power point.   Here are some wishes: 1) Allow Journals to be published to HTML.  (this would be great for JMP Live). 2) Create a way to indicated that a group of display objects should be treated as one thing for conversion to an image when exporting to powerpoint.  Ideas on how to do this:      a) create a flag for the OutlineBox() display object to indicate that everything contained in that outline box should be grouped together for export.  And then update the export / save to powerpoint to recognize that flag and capture the whole contents of the outline box as an image together    b) create a new display object (aka ExportTogetherBox()) that acts like what I described above     Even if the Outline Box() could have a flag to set that says "treat this like all one thing" for export to powerpoint, that would be fantastic. ... View more

What inspired this wish list request?  Model selection is essential for DoE Analysis. JMP provides this feature for platforms like Fit Stepwise or Generalized Regression, where only fixed effects are present in the model. However, by using Split Plot Designs or random block models I need to use either the Mixed Model Platform or the Generalized Mixed Model Platform. Both platforms does not allow automatic model selection steps like Backward Elimination, Forward Selection or Prune Forward Selection. Thus, I'm forced to perform these steps in a manually way, which are very tedious. Other software tools like Design Expert already allow automatic model selection for split plot designs!     What is the improvement you would like to see? Simply add all the model selection features from the generalized regression platform (see screenshot) to the Generalized Mixed Model Platform       Why is this idea important? At the moment I have to use Design Expert to perform a model selection on Split-Plot Designs, because it is too much work to do this manually in JMP. In other words, I cannot use JMP for Split-Plot Model Analysis respectively not even for random block models!     ... View more

☑ cool new feature ☑ could help many users! ☑ removes a "feels like bug“ ☐ nice to have ☐ nobody needs it   What inspired this wish list request? With the Subgroup option in Table/Summary one can split group statistics by subgroups - several columns can be used as subgroups to get even more details.   At the moment, when several columns are selected as subgroups, all possible combinations are hierarchically listed. For the example here: Table summary - Subgroups every single day of the week X every single day of the month gets a subgroup, ending up with 7 * 31 = 271 subgroups (dom, dow)   Sometimes, the user just wants to generate a fast overview with subgroups from several columns. Therefore, subgroups should not be listed hierarchically, but just put next to each other (side-by-side subgroups *): This is not possible yet in Table/Summary and the cool intersection feature feels more like a "bug" :)   As a workaround, the user can use the Tabulate Platform: https://community.jmp.com/t5/Discussions/Table-summary-Subgroups/m-p/589647/highlight/true#M79432  Tabulate gives the user all the flexibility to choose between hierarchical listing of (sub)groups and putting (sub)groups side-by-side  (actually: groups ... below each other :) But Tabulate has several disadvantages: - Tabulate doesn't provide interactive linking to the source table - Tabulate doesn't provide sorting (right?) - Tabulate doesn't support columns with modeling type multiple response   What is the improvement you would like to see?  For the Table/Summary Platform, please add an option that allows the user to chose if several (Sub)group Categories should be intersected or just put next to each other.   Why is this idea important? The click effort to generate a  summary with side-by-side (sub)groups (*) can be significantly reduced. e.g. for the example in Table summary - Subgroups  from ~ 17 clicks/dragNdrops to 5 clicks/dragNdrops.         more wishes submitted 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?  My recent files list gets longer and longer - and it gets hard to find the important files. It helps to use the pinning option - but now also the list with the pinned files continues to grow recent files - grouping?      What is the improvement you would like to see?  please add a grouping option  - similar to a folder structure to group files. This will add some structure - and many hundreds of files will find their place in the subgroups.     Why is this idea important?  After some moths and years, it's difficult for Jmp users to find their important files. A grouping option with > 1 level will fix the issue.   related wish: Add Favorite Files window pane to JMP Home Window    I'd prefer the "folder structure".           more wishes submitted by   ... View more

JMP17 has new function called New Formula Column. It would be nice if it were to return the references to the newly created columns in a list, in similar manner as << New Column does for single column. This would make using this function easier   Names Default To Here(1); dt = Open("$SAMPLE_DATA/Big Class.jmp"); new_col = dt << New Column("Log2[height]", Numeric, Continuous, Formula( Log(:height, 2) )); new_cols = dt << New Formula Column(Operation("Log 2"), Columns(:height, :weight)); Show(new_col, new_cols); ... View more

Document and support the DisableJMPPro() function.  For those individuals that support a community of JMP users, some that do not have JMPPro, being able to develop and/or test standard JMP programs is important. ... View more

I'm currently working on some larger JMP-scripting projects where version control is a must. With JMP14 I started to work with projects.    Committing & pushing my code to github manually is a bit of a pain. It would be great to have some very basic functionality like commit/push/pull integrated in JMP projects. ... View more

What inspired this wish list request?  Losing information in column formulas when I'm troubleshooting or explaining a complex jsl is lost when things are commented out   What is the improvement you would like to see?  It's important because I like to troubleshoot column formulas with show/print commands and i don't want to have to redo all that work every time if i save time/overhead by commenting out lines when they are not immediately needed   Why is this idea important?  It's important because column formulas can become complex and it's important to have good tracking of what a formula does as well as being able to easily troubleshoot when time time arises.   ... View more

As you know, many of data scientist use XGBoost, LightGBM, and CatBoost (gradient boosting decision tree) to solve their problems by using Python. Could you add these modelings in the decision tree menu (JMP) as well? If it can be provided by JMP Script Language (JSL), it will be great as well. Thank you. : )   Reference: https://papers.nips.cc/paper/6907-lightgbm-a-highly-efficient-gradient-boosting-decision-tree.pdf         ... View more

How is it possible to change the Font setting of Y Group in graph builder?   I'm using JMP Pro 14.1   It is not possible to right-click to change those as with e.g the x-axis.   The Group font and font size are controlled by the "Text" size as specified in the Preferences for JMP.  They are not controlled as an individual graph by graph setting.      File --  Preferences -- Fonts    It would be nice to be able to control the fonts by right-clicking   ... View more

☑ cool new feature ☑ could help many users! ☐ removes a „bug“ ☐ nice to have ☐ nobody needs it   In graph builder it's very convenient to pull the axes with the mouse to adjust min, max and the range. Is it possible to add this functionality also to the color gradient legend? ... View more

Previously I asked a multiple Y-axis overlay chart in the user community (Multiple Y axis in a chart. (Multiple Y axis scales)) and Byron made a scirpt for it (Multiple Y-Axis Graphs).   I hope I can get this feature from the 'Graph Builder' in next JMP version with interactive Y-axis setting. Currently the multiple Y-axis graph (from the script) dosen't link with the data in the graph. If the data is linked with multiple Y-axis interactively, it will be better than other supporting programs. Thank you. : ) ... View more