JMP Wish List

What inspired this wish list request? When I need to filter multiple items in a list it is great to be able to type in the main portion of the "item" so that the filter only shows relevant items.  However, when I then go to filter additional items and thus clear the filter text box when I type in a new main portion of an item into the filter text box it resets the selections.   In this example I want to select all names starting with C and J.  So I start with c's:   clear the filter text box and so far so good....   Then go to J's: and now my c's are no longer selected...         What is the improvement you would like to see? Please allow the ability for the previously selected items to not be cleared, thus the change in filtered items can be additive.     Why is this idea important? This will speed up the process of filtering columns with lots of levels that are not in easy to find blocks.     ... View more

What inspired this wish list request? I was trying to model some data as a Rice distribution, which uses a Bessel function in the PDF.   What is the improvement you would like to see?  I would like if JMP supported Bessel Functions, specifically Bessel Function of the first kind Jα(x) Bessel Function of the second kind Yα(X) Modified Bessel Function of the first kind Iα(X) Modified Bessel Function of the Second kind Kα(X)   Why is this idea important?  Bessel functions are used to describe the PDF of the Rice distribution, as well as engineering applications (heat transfer, wave propagation). They are currently supported in some other programs, such as SAS, Excel, MATLAB, and R. ... 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

☑ cool new feature ☑ could help many users! ☐ removes a „bug“ ☐ nice to have ☐ nobody needs it     What inspired this wish list request?  Strange that that function is not available in the formula editor (statistical) or JSL... Maybe next version.     What is the improvement you would like to see?  please synchronize the different platforms: - Tables-Summary - Tabulate - Header Statistics - new column formula right click menu - JSL aggregation function  - and most important:   Summary Statistics in Graph Builder every aggregation function which is available via Header Statistics could/should be available via the other "platforms" as well.   At least:  - add a JSL function Col N Unique. - add a unique entries to the new column formula  menu - and in Graph builder, add  Statistics for Unique entries. - and please (!),Add dense ranking to Ranking Tie and Col Rank functions  missing entries should not be counted (see below) for the JSL function: option to count /not count missing entries   Why is this idea important? In Semiconductor Industry, users often ask: - how many wafers (in this list of devices) - how many batches (in this list of wafers)   other JMP users need the functionality for: - how many countries (list of covid affected people) - how many companies (list of employees) - how many cities (list of people) In JMP it's too complicated to get such answers! Header Statistics is great - the other platforms should be optimized. I guess, no user complained about "too many" options in the Header Statistics? Nevertheless, to save newbies from crowded lists, the additional options could be hidden in a submenu - or behind a Shift-Click. * )available via header statistics nominal: continuous:     more wishes submitted by   ... View more

☐ cool new feature ☑ could help many users! ☑ feels like a „bug“ ☐ nice to have ☐ nobody needs it   #myTop10_2022 #myTop10_2023 #myTop10_2024   short: against issue like this one:   long: What inspired this wish list request?  Heatmaps are great to display variations of a value depending on 2 input variables. prominent use case: measured values vs. x/y position (e.g. chips on a wafer)   Unfortunately, Heatmaps use the minor Tick spacing to determine the size of the individual "tiles". This leads to a which actually feels like a bug for many Jmp users - the issue: The tick settings (and with them: the Heatmap tile size!) are automatically adjusted whenever the user changes the axis range by dragging the axis or by zooming with the magnifier tool: Some problem using Heatmap    Concerning axis adjustments by dragging, @julian 's suggestion helps: hold down SHift while changing the axis scaling. But it just helps when you drag one end of the axis - if you want to zoom out by grabbing the axis and moving it away from the plot, you will ruin you plot - with and without pressing Shift. Same issue with the magnifier tool: https://community.jmp.com/t5/Discussions/Some-problem-using-Heatmap/m-p/571751/highlight/true#M78136     What is the improvement you would like to see?  An option for GraphBuilder/Heatmap to forces JMP to set the tick spacing fixed. This will allow users to keep the tick spacing exactly as it was defined by the user. Why is this idea important?  Under the line: tiny change of the program - tremendous improvement for the users. maybe there are some users who don't need it - or: some users who don't know yet that they need it :) No longer destroyed plots after adjusting the axis range/zoom :)   most important use case: "1x1" (for chip wafer maps in Semiconductor Industry) error 1) Jmp clusters multiple chips into one cell by increasing minot tick step size to > 0 -> individual outliers get averaged out! error 2) Jmp invents empty "sub-Chips" by automatically changing minor tick step size to < 1:   To be on the safe side, cautious users abandon the Heatmap style and plot wafermaps as Points: either with mainly white area around the "points" - which makes it hard to get the actual info: or with overlapping points -> dangerous, almost as bad as the clustering issue (#1) (!)   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

The GraphBuilder can be used to visualize sensor data as Y's and a DateTime as X to make trends.   However, when Y's have different units or scales, the only way is to pre-standardize the columns and plot them all together.   An axis default option that allows this visualization without having to transform the columns will be very essential for new JMP users that are getting data from their manufacturing systems (e.g., Osisoft PI in JMP 17).   See how it is done in historians below (+video). To be clear, this is already standard in JMP, but only if you put variables in one axis: Again, the moment you add an X variable (DateTime), the plot squeezes variables using only one scale.           ... View more

☑ cool new feature ☑ could help many users! ☐ removes a „bug“ ☐ nice to have ☐ nobody needs it   #myTop10_2023 (either this one or Speed up Tables/Update ) as we have a workaround for Tables/Update, also this one is no longer needed   What inspired this wish list request?  Tables/Join is a powerful tool to merge different data tables. The only disadvantage: it generates a new data table instead of updating the main table.   I often have a table, with table dozens of table scripts which evolved over time - and Dashboards which refer to this table. To widen the analysis, I want to add a column to the table - but Tables/Join generates a new table.   What is the improvement you would like to see?  Please add an option in Tables/Join: Update main table. If the option is enabled, the platform should update the main table instead of generating a new one.   If Jmp developers fear that Tables:Join gets too crowded by this option, they could hide the option behind a shift-click or invisible to other users.   Why is this idea important?  There is no fast way to merge new columns to a data table.  Table/Join is almost the perfect tool - but it generates a new table. The additional setting will solve the issue.         more wishes submitted by   ... View more

What inspired this wish list request?  Depending what you are doing in JMP, you sometimes have to unnecessarily move from wide data to tall data due to how column switcher / local data filter work - we cannot "filter" columns currently. This is one of the reasons why I did create Enhanced Sankey Plot (ESP) add-in as it is fairly difficult to quickly add/remove specific columns from graph builder.   What is the improvement you would like to see?  I would like to have new tool? "Column Filter" which would allow me to determine which columns I want to show. This would function basically like Data Filter but for columns. If I have a situation like this where I have multiple columns in my Y-axis for example I don't have any easy options to hide or add extra columns. If I want to some of those columns or add new ones, I have to stack the data first and the create a graph with local data filter This does work great but sometimes this feels very unnecessary step.   Why is this idea important?  This would make the gap between tall/stacked and wide/split data smaller. ... View more

What inspired this wish list request?  Right now we need to manually assign people to groups (or spaces) in JMP Live, mirroring permissions that are already available and actively managed in active directory.   What is the improvement you would like to see?  Sync or read groups from active directory into JMP Live.   Why is this idea important?  Managing these permissions separatelly from active directory is a lot of work and will likely lead to some users have access to content they shouldn't, and some users not having access to things they should.  We already have processes to administer and audit these permissions in active directory.   ... View more

What inspired this wish list request? I have recently been fitting Mechanistic Growth models in the Fit Curve platform.  While confidence intervals for the fit are visible in the Prediction Profiler, there is no way to save those formulas to the table.  I can only visualize the results for one batch at a time, and there seems to be no ability to generate or visualize the confidence curves for the individuals at all. What is the improvement you would like to see? I would like the ability to save the "Mean Confidence Limit Formula" and "Indiv Confidence Limit Formula" out of the Fit Curve platform for any models where it is mathematically possible.  (I used the same nomenclature as what is present in the Fit Model>>Save Columns menu, but it seems to vary by platform.)  Ultimately, I would like to be able to overlay confidence curves - both for the fit and the individual points - similar to what can be accomplished in the Fit Y By X platform.  I could create a visualizations like these in Graph Builder if I could save the formulas for the confidence curves for both the fit and the individuals out to the table.   Why is this idea important?  It enables users to visually communicate the uncertainty associated with models and compare performance between categorical factors.   ... View more

What inspired this wish list request?  The need to compare the model built from a DOE ran in a simulation software with the model from the exact same DOE ran in an experiment in the lab.    What is the improvement you would like to see?  Overlay in the profiler if two different models in the same row. For more detail please look at the post below https://community.jmp.com/t5/Discussions/Overlay-profiler-from-two-different-models/m-p/708222#M89253   Why is this idea important?  It helps to see the mismatch between the simulation and the experimental DOE results and helps calibrate the simulation software model better and design better DOEs in the next experiments.   ... View more

JMP 18, if we give access to JMP for our users via JMP authorization portal, an eMail with a download link is sent out. This yields confusion since users in BASF should use BASF internal installation routines to install JMP, not your link!   It would be very helpful to have the opportunity to activate/deactivate that eMail from company JMP to our users.     ... View more

Isolation Forest has been emerging as arguably one of the most popular anomaly detectors in recent years due to its general effectiveness across different benchmarks and strong scalability. It is computationally efficient and has been proven to be very effective in anomaly detection.   Isolation forest compared to others (src) The algorithm isolates observations by randomly selecting a feature and then randomly selecting a split value between the maximum and minimum values of the selected feature. The implementation is therefore the same as partition trees and bootstrap trees with the difference that the target function should be uniform (trying to split variables with a constant Y value). Yet, if you try this in JMP, it doesn’t work. By including Isolation Forest in JMP, similar tu predictor screening, users would have access to a powerful tool for detecting anomalies in their data. This could help them identify unusual patterns or behaviors that may warrant further investigation.   This paper studies how IForest works and improves upon its few limitations (i.e., extended isolation forest) https://hal.science/hal-03537102/document   Scikit-learn documentation https://scikit-learn.org/stable/modules/outlier_detection.html     ... View more

Does anyone know if this will be added sometime in the future? Really hard to stare at a white screen for more than a couple of hours.  ... View more

Add-in to automate data extraction tasks from Aspentech IP.21 and Osisoft PI (Aveva) historians. This way, you can use JMP to diagnose manufacturing problems and monitor several tags daily and weekly.   For example: MES data retrieval add-in - Aspentech IP.21 and Osisoft PI (Aveva) https://community.jmp.com/t5/tkb/workflowpage/tkb-id/add-ins/article-id/1589     ... View more

Hi,   I saw there is already a post for improvements to the Scripting index here :Scripting-Index-improvements  . However, I don't know if wishes are actually taken into account when they are submitted as comments to an existing wish, so I'll just make a new post.     Something that would be very useful would be to have a 100% comprehensive Scripting index. What I mean is to include for every function, a complete list of all arguments, what the funtion returns, and the clearest possible explanation so a novice can understand exactly how a function works and what it does.   Yes I know, some of this information can be found in the JSL syntax reference. But why not have it all in the same place?  All too often I have to read both the text of the Scripting index and the syntax reference to understand what the function actually is and how it works. So having a more thorough, more detailed, more education oriented Scripting index would be very valuable.   Thanks         ... View more

What inspired this wish list request? need to make transparent PNG with graphic script   What is the improvement you would like to see? Allow graph background color of 'transparent'. This is not the same as the window background color. Currently the graph always creates a rectangle of color, making it impossible to capture an image with transparency.   Why is this idea important? https://community.jmp.com/t5/Discussions/How-to-use-JSL-graph-background-for-transparent-graphics/m-p/627070#M82571   Need a way to *also* request the graph background be 'none' or 'transparent' or 'missing' ... View more

☑ cool new feature ☑ could help many users! ☐ removes a „bug“ ☐ nice to have ☐ nobody needs it   #myTop10_2022   Please add this functionality to JSL editor:   When a user Double-Clicks a bracket, the code inside the brackets is analyed, clustered ind highlighted with differnet colors. Example for "if": - conditions are highlighted green to separate the code blocks in-between - else code is highlighted red to separate is from the other code https://community.jmp.com/t5/Discussions/JSL-if-else-gt-find-the-commas/m-p/573510/highlight/true#M78251   Similar highlighting could also be applied to many  other functions: Match: highlight each match to separate the code blocks. Substitute: highlight the search patterns to separate the replacement blocks ...     more wishes submitted by   ... View more