Welcome to the JMP Development Update for September 10, 2021!
We are nearing the date for JMP 17 EA3, planned to be built to match the evening build of October 1. Thank you for continuing to update your feature pages with details for our early adopters! It seems like they will have plenty of new items to test when it’s time to release EA3.
We have a few upcoming JMP dev meetings already scheduled for before and just after Discovery. I am not planning to schedule a dev demo for the week of Discovery (October 7). However, if you would like to present on a new JMP 17 feature later in October or in November or December, please send me a note and we’ll look at available dates for a presentation.
Thanks very much to Ernest Pasour for presenting at yesterday’s JMP Dev meeting. Ernest showed off Table Shaper, an interactive tool that lets you create a multi-step data cleanup workflow with preview. If you missed the meeting, you can find a recording here.
Table Shaper will be the subject of a handful of small customer sessions at the Discovery JMP Lab where the customer will work through a JMP Lab exercise with Stephanie, Ernest, and Mandy present. They’ll be encouraged to think out loud and provide feedback as they go through the exercise. If you know a customer who you think would be particularly well suited to providing good feedback on this tool, please let Stephanie know by filling out this survey.
Thanks to Tonya for sending the details last week about Beta/Crash/Telemetry tracks. She is out today so I’ll share them here. Beta/Crash/Telemetry tracks for the week of 9/3/2021 | JMP Live (sas.com)
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General Announcements
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Important Upcoming Dates
- JMP 17.0 EA3 – 10/1/21
- JMP 17.0 EA4 – 11/5/21
- Please visit Confluence for a full list of JMP 16 and JMP 17 dates.
JMP Development Updates
HTML5
- Praveena: Started at SAS Wednesday with machine and system setup (Perforce, JMP runner, VSCode). Completed the JMP Software: A Case Study Approach to Data Exploration course. Attended a session set up by Audrey, where she gave an introduction to JMP and I was able to meet other new team members. Met with Xan Gregg and others for a code overview. John Powell gave me an overview of Swarm, the HTML5 team Confluence page and Jira board. Doing the SAS Ethics & Compliance Training and tool learning activities (Perforce, JMP Runner).
- Mayowa: Worked on axis labels for continuous columns in parallel plots (JMPHTML-1175), font size customization in script segment (JMPHTML-1157), font size customization in correlations text size in scatterplot and Text segments in general (JMPHTML-1158).
- John Powell: Welcomed Praveena to the HTML5 team and started some high level knowledge transfer. Thanks to Audrey and Xan for doing the same! Said farewell to Tommy who was helping us out part time and did as awesome a job in HTML5 as he did in JMP Live. Synchronized with Mayowa’s ParallelAxis code and submitted initial JavaScript drawing code for Polyline Seg to support Parallel Plots (JMPHTML-819). Updated some Jira filters and subscriptions after Audrey’s great presentation last week. Worked with Dieter and Florence K. to triage an issue with some of Lafarge’s JMP Live posts that were due to a JMP table with an on open script that launches a dialog. Attended the JMP Live Demo and participated in the JMP Live Steering Committee meeting. Worked with Mia and the HTML5 team to create a table of HTML5 features only available in JMP Live.
- Josh M: Worked on JMPHTML-1186: Support frame resizing in profiler and JMPHTML-1116: Profiler shifts when changing to dark mode.
- Tommy: HTML5 – Finished up a font size change for tables.
JMP Live
- Tommy: JMP Live – Helped Michael with a tree display for Spaces and upgrading to Apollo Client 3. Lots of knowledge transfer and documenting CI setup.
- Aurora: Finished supporting anonymous visitors. Improved performance of retrieving post lists. Participated in JMP Live iteration demo. Got some initial thoughts on hierarchical folders into Confluence. Got brain dump from Tommy Odom on Jest configuration and New Relic, documented in Confluence for future reference.
- Josh M: WEBJMP-3905: Display photo icon for picture cells. Demoed the first part of the data viewer for the iteration demo.
Statistics
- Peng: Making changes to the repeated measure degradation platform based on Bill Meeker’s feedback.
- Annie: Added a button to CCB for the user to switch charts from a summarized XBar to a non-summarized IMR chart (JMP-5128), which moves the subgroup variable to the new label role. Continued fixing bugs in both CCB and Cusum Control Charts.
- John Sall: More work on clustering before next week's presentation. Three fixes to Process Screening.
- Laura C-S: Swapping the old numeric routines in SEM for the new ones Chris wrote. Built successfully today after more than a week of coding in the dark.
Stat Documentation
- Colleen: Updated the doc for defects/Jiras in Principal Components, Multivariate, KMeans, Normal Mixtures, and Control Chart Builder. Specifically, added the new Laney P’ and U’ charts to the CCB documentation. Started to look at the planning sheet for updates to the Scripting Index. Haven’t worked on this project in a while but would like to continue to improve the Scripting Index for a few more platforms in 17.0.
Stat Testing
- Mark: Continue supporting DOE Team, especially Easy DOE project. Successfully finished first script with unit tests for Profiler in Bivariate and enhancing these tests now. Revisiting analysis of dissolution curves and spectral data. Started revision of ASQ Handbook for Six Sigma Black Belts as part of a working group on my own time (introducing JMP examples).
- Tonya: Testing limit detection in distribution, sample label role in CCB, Type 1 Gauge, and new features in Process Screening. Bug verification. Cleaning up unit tests due to pen color changes and negative binomial changes. Answered user community questions about nonnormal CPK calculations and goodness of fit tests.
- Fang: Responding to EA tracks. Going through a list of suggestion items for Model Screening and Decision Threshold to ensure they are tracked in Jira. Continue testing and working on unit tests for GenReg and GLMM. Cleaning up unit tests for other platforms.
- Jacob: Testing updates to MSA Design diagnostics in 16.2 and revising MSA Design tests for the new diagnostics in 17.0. Testing Explore Missing Values and answered a customer question from JMP Technical Support. Cleaning up unit tests and investigating potential performance issues.
Life Sciences Updates
- Meichen: Completed my PhD dissertation defense in early August and started my full time position with the life sciences team last week :smiling_face_with_smiling_eyes:! Now I am starting to work on the dimension reduction technique t-SNE using C++.
Product Management
- Dieter: Helped the Bundesdruckerei, Lafarge and Poseida with some on installation and publishing issues
Technical Support
- Duane: Slowly, JMP TS is getting the proper permissions back to use our existing tools and applications. Only a few minor apps are left. We continue to handle our tracks as normal, however. Here are the TS JMP Live reports. (JMP Live 16) Here is information regarding Jira tickets opened by TS: https://rndjira.sas.com/issues/?filter=61215
Development Operations
- Jim: Installed ODBC Manager and configured multiple drivers on all mac OS JMP 17 testing machines. Perforce support.
- Shannon: Triaging defects and moving items to Jira. Jira support and discussions. Reviewing candidates for doc manager position.
Documentation
- Susan C: Working on reviewing all the SEO updates that Michael, Colleen, and Karen have completed.
- Sheila: SEO writing. Testing FrameScript fixes. Finished testing software upgrades. Generated 16.1 and 17.0 Help. Working on fix for cut-off equations. Updating PDF instructions for BRD.
System/Host Testing-Cary
- Mandy: Reviewed TS tracks from internal and external users. Tracked down a JMP 16 Recode customer crash reported by a customer in Germany involving nominal to character changes on a column with DOE column properties that was still crashing at 16.2 and 17.0. Worked on writing tests for Tabulate Packed Analysis columns, image tests, and JSL framework. Worked on writing test for Tables Preview, image tests, and JSL framework. Helped developer test JMPRUNNER changes on new Mac server. Working on a Table Shaper workflow test and benchmarking script while continuing interactive testing of this new platform.
- Hui: Continued testing on fonts support on HTML5. Investigated possibility using Image Test Suite to test Journal. Helped verifying a defect on Chinese locale.
- Mike M: Busy couple of weeks porting the Sikuli tests to 17.0. Opened 6 defects based on this work and the image diffs. Working to convert Sikuli DEFECTS JSL script to Jira.
- Josh L: JMP Live Jira Story and Bug testing. Refactored the JMP and JMP Live nightly installer copy to Azure. Consulted with development on the best way to update Keycloak on live15auth. Also refactored some of my JSL tests.
Cary / Beijing JMP Live Testing Jira Status
- 10 Stories in Testing
- 40 Stories in Test Ready
- 2 Bug Created in the last 7 days
- 22 Stories / Bugs Closed in the last 7 days
System/Host Testing-Beijing
- Eric Wang: (1) Setup new JMP Live 16.2 and 17 servers. Config daily auto updated process. (2) Added several jest tests for ‘CanDoX’ based on user role (publisher, space user, admin etc.). (3) JMP 16.2 sanity check for SAS Integration and JMP Publish on Win Server 2022. (4) Jira stories/bugs testing.
- Da Li: (1) Testing OSI PI Import. (2) JMP 16.2 sanity check for import/export on Win Server 2022. (3) Testing download-as-project. (4) Investigated and fixed JSL UT failures in 16.2 and 17. (5) Investigated TS report 7613414221.
- Mike Wu: (1) JMP 16.2 sanity check for ODBC/Query Builder on Win Server 2022. (2) Added ODBC Open Database () related regression unit test for the Invisible/Private option when verified the bug JMP-6210. (3) Jira stories/bugs testing. (4) Investigating JSL UT failures.
- Kimi: (1) JMP 16.2 sanity check for Formula Depot and Python Interface on Win Server 2022. (2) Testing Python Interface. Details refer to BRDSTG-3162. (3) Investigating JSL UT results. And work with Audrey and Nick to investigate a JSL UT results dashboard issue.
- Nala: (1) JMP 16.2 sanity check for Text Explorer and CAS Integration on Win Server 2022. (2) Jira stories/bugs testing.
Data Discovery
- Evan: Transitioned EvalContext ownership from RefTo to shared_ptr. Restoring removed JSL Dialog() to deprecated status.
- Dave B: Fixed 3d crash caused by missing value being cast to an int, fixed bug that caused text annotation to go into edit mode when moved, working on correctly updating pinned tooltips after rows are hidden/excluded.
- Dan S: Added <
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- Caleb: Finished my re-design for the MSA Design Diagnostics and started working on moving remaining sample size calculators from the old platform into the new Sample Size Explorers.
- Brad: Reviewing papers for Technometrics, Statistics in Medicine, and Quality Engineering.
Host
- Bryan B: Wrapping up asynchronous HTTP Request and Multi HTTPRequests in 17.0 (C++ and JSL) using Aaron’s JSL Promise framework.
- Aaron: Additional html5 ImageTest capture optimizations. Experimental FileSpec path parsing research. Misc JmpLive publish items. JmpLive iteration demo. Worked with Bryan Boone on HttpRequesst Promises. Added a new secret command line option on windows for setting a custom session script file.
Note from Shannon
Thanks to John Sall for sharing this blurb about the company JMP bought our domain name from-perhaps this merger will mean that "JMP" becomes available again as a symbol on the NYSE. We’ll see! Hope you all have a great weekend!
