Welcome to the JMP Development Update for November 19, 2021!
JMP 17 EA4 is out the door and is already getting internal and external feedback. Thanks for all your work updating feature pages, making videos and preparing items for testing! Product management has announced the availability of EA4 to customers with an email highlighting newly introduced and enhanced features and new videos. JMP 17 EA5 will be cut to match the evening build for December 10.
A few final high priority fixes were added to JMP 16.2 this week in preparation for creating a final installer candidate and kicking off installer validation next week. We’ll be tracking testing efforts for JMP and JMP Pro annual license and subscription in JMPTEST-163 and tracking validation of JMP Trial installers in JMPTEST-409.
Thanks to Audrey Shull, Nick Holmes and Justin Chilton for tag teaming at this week’s dev meeting to present on unit test updates and answer questions in the chat. If you missed the meeting, you can see a recording here. Nick has since pushed the updates to the JSL Unit Test GUI, so you can sync //depot/main/test/JSL/ to get them. Note that you will need to use them in a November JMP 17 build (after CL 562899) to allow updates like the 3 state checkbox to work. Please send them any feedback you might have after trying out the changes, which Nick detailed below:
- Incorporation of text subsets "Stress", "Rapid" and "Superbaseline"
- You can view this list in a JMP data table
- You can choose a preset filter which pulls from the text subsets
- Additional Perforce integration
- Prompts you to update your subset lists if they are not up to date
- Additions to the gear menu to sync all unit tests and all subset lists
- Display of the current filter(s) selected as text in the GUI
- Run Superbaseline button
- Selects the superbaseline filter and then runs the tests
- Partial selection of check boxes
Thanks to Tonya Mauldin for sharing this week’s details about Beta/Crash Telemetry tracks with crashes selected. The JMP Live report is here: Beta/Crash/Telemetry tracks for the week of 11/19/2021 | JMP Live (sas.com)
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General Announcements
- Hope you all saw the Inside JMP article on JMP’s participation in the Wake County Holiday Cheer program again this year! We have a great history of helping those less fortunate in our area through this program. You also have an opportunity to participate in the SAS Salvation Army Angel Tree drive coordinated by WIN. You can submit a request here – the last I heard they still had a few children left to sponsor.
- If you’re willing to be a featured employee on Inside JMP, please download a copy of the Get to Know form. Simply fill out the questions and when you’re done, upload it, along with 3 photos of you to the folder. Thank you for helping to make our JMP family a little more familiar!
Important Upcoming Dates
- JMP 17.0 EA5 – 12/10/21
- Please visit Confluence for a full list of JMP 16 and JMP 17 dates.
JMP Development Updates
HTML5
- Josh M:
- JMPHTML-1219: The exported Html5 Partition Categorical Profiler with Nominal response did not display the curves
- This was a large change that addresses the weird behavior in the Match operator, unfortunately I had to port these bugs to JavaScript as it is unlikely they will be updated for consistency in JMP (see JMP-7579 and JMP-2150)
- This unblocks Partition, Boosted Trees and Bootstrap Forest for categorical profilers. Wrote email to the testers to begin testing.
- Paid down some technical debt by updating all the mosaic tests that had NominalAxisBox to help with JMPHTML-852. JMP no longer produces the XML in our unit tests, so really they weren’t that meaningful. This uncovered two bugs in the axis code (now AxisBox is used instead):
- JMPHTML-1409: It shows "error reading data" after exporting to html5 with large data table
- First I found a bug in JString.compress() when you provided data larger than 99,999,999 characters long. Evan McCorkle fixed this (see JMP-8807). The updated format can handle up to 1e34-1 characters.
- With the JavaScript fix in place to support Evan’s updated format, the distribution plot with 12.2 million rows exports to HTML and loads in Chrome in 18s and Firefox in 21s! Note, not just any plot will be able to handle this much data.
- Bryan F:
- Completed work on JMPHTML-1406 so that users can show ordinary bar labels above primary bars that may also have packed bar labels.
- Also finished work on JMPHTML-1309 to support double resolution for graphs on both Windows and Macs. Now users can zoom in without the graph looking pixelated up to 200%. The graph should also look crisper on Retina displays. Doing so required reworking the way markers optimized selection and drawing many markers.
- Fixed a couple of issues noted by Andy Zhou. JMPHTML-1191 involved the lightness of certain buttons and JMPHTML-1194 involved the lightness of tabbed containers in dark mode. I created JMPHTML-1428 to address the brightness of the highlight color used in data filters, which I intend to address soon.
- Mayowa: Worked on rendering parallel plots with overlay role as static images (JMPHTML-1288), supporting customized font size for pinned hover labels when the tooltip values font size is customized (JMPHTML-1138).
- John Powell: Fixed tooltip for variance of a categorical variable in color role for Markers (JMPHTML-966). Added support for customized text size via Text Font preference in Local Data Filter and Column Switchers (JMPHTML-1399). Renamed “Submit” to “Update” in the Local Data Filter on JMP Live and added tooltips for “Auto Update” and “Update” as per Susan C. and Landra C.’s advice (design page, JMPHTML-1096) Prepared for end of sprint meetings to be held after Thanksgiving. Provided input and created JMPHTML-1429 based on Andy Z.’s JMP Live/HTML5 feedback via Mia S.
- Praveena: Worked on JMPHTML-1205, added Boolean overload for attribute function, JMPHTML-1166- customization of control font. Working on JMPHTML-1429, emphasize tabulate header.
JMP Live
- Aurora: For hierarchical folders, I stopped tracking and showing view count for folders, and I continued work on a unified REST API endpoint for publishing post(s). However, later in the week I got involved in the design of "publish with webview" which will change that unified endpoint somewhat. We are working on a design that will be more "future proof" and will work with interactive publish and JSL publish, to spaces, folders, etc. Also fixed a bug for user search, investigated a PostgreSQL vulnerability, and took part in design review for refreshable data.
- Michael G: Added support for nested groups. Added action in the JMP Live client to create a new empty folder. Modified space keys to only allow alphanumeric characters. Continued work on webview publish. Various bug fixes.
- Bryan F: Fixed WEBJMP-4242 which was a dark mode issue where messages about a user not being followed or not following others did not appear to be centered when rendered in dark mode.
Statistics
- Jianfeng: Jeremy and I gave a talk at ENBIS-JMP webinar on Wednesday. It went really well, and we had nice feedback from Dr. Murat Caner Testik, chair of ENBIS: “Thank you very much again for this wonderful webinar. I believe that our members benefitted from it very much. Hoping to host you in other ENBIS events in the near future.” Continued to work on the new feature of equivalence test for two proportions (JMP-8040). Thanks!
- Peng: Explained a convergence issue while fitting the threshold Weibull to a user’s data. Debugged a problematic and complicated user calculation which tries to verify confidence interval calculation in Life Distribution. Finished the first test of repeated measure degradation models with an accelerant.
- Laura C-S: Continued rewriting functions in SEM to enable multiple group analysis. Added R^2 estimates by group to the path diagram. Answered a couple questions about SEM including one from a heart surgeon designing a survey.
- Annie: Continued work on restructuring CCB for improved performance.
Stat Documentation
- Michael C: Started work on documenting GLMM platform for 17; documented various other new features.
- Colleen: Wrote the new chapter for Type 1 Gauge Analysis (almost finished with it!) and pushed some more SI changes.
Stat Testing
- Mark B: Helping Brad and Joseph with design of Easy DOE, especially new Analyze tab. Testing Easy DOE with Jacob. Answering questions in JMP Community.
- Fang: Tested the Unthreaded option for the Mixed Model personality in JMP 17.0 and JMP 16.2 on various machines (JMP-7756). Unit tests clean-up. Bug verification.
- Tonya: Mostly working on reporting of feedback from EA1, EA2, and EA3.
Life Sciences Updates
- Wenjun: Represented CDISC Board to give an opening welcome to the CDISC Interchange China annual conference last night. I was able to mention JMP and JMP Clinical by showing FDA reviewers training requirements. Dr. Lisa Lin of US FDA talked right after me and echoed my message listing JMP and JMP Clinical as their analysis tools. In our speakers’ preview section right before the conference, everyone noticed that JMP and FDA have a very similar background.
Product Management
- Dieter: Worked on the upgrade of jmplivesales to JMP Live 17. Also worked with Eric, Jeff and Duane on the PostgreSQL vulnerability, creating a message and upgrade path of the database for our customers. Helped Northrop and Regeneron with their JMP Live installation and gave a quick demo of AWS AppStream at the monthly SE meeting.
Documentation
- Sheila: Updated the EN, JA, and ZH 16.2 JMP Doc Library PDF files. Generated the 16.2 PDF files. Documented several production processes. Generated the 16.1 help and help map. Generated the 17.0 help map. Worked on a few localization questions. Looked into ePublisher problems on the help-pdf-legacy VM. Tied up loose strings.
- Qiana: Finished the 16.2 DGs and delivered to localization. Began looking at ways to improve the JMP product Help menu items. Continued JMP project education and management onboarding tasks.
System/Host Testing-Cary
- Mandy: Tested Workflow Builder UI. Met with Mike M. to come up with a few basic Sikuli tests for it, but with caution as Ernest is still actively developing this feature. Added an image test to just ensure workflow builder won’t crash. Worked on adding suggestion Jira tickets for EA TS tracks. Worked on a DF change Dan made at 17.0 and added a test case. Reviewed a Tabulate fix and added a test case. Verifying JIRA’s.
- Hunter: Investigated tracks for a crash installing an ODBC dependent Add-In on Monterey (JMP-8810), disabled display tabs in a project, and updated to Monterey 12.1 Dev. Beta 3 in lab.
- Audrey: Finalized EA4, finalizing JMP 16.2 test plans, finalize and give the demo about JSL Test Tooling.
- Lisa G: Verifying some 17.0 tickets, investigated some image diffs that Mike M highlighted, and recorded an EA video for Configure Levels.
System/Host Testing-Beijing
- Beijing team:
- Completed the JMP 17 EA4 installer testing and sanity check, details in BRDSTG-3247.
- Executing JMP 16.2 sanity check on Windows 11 and MacOS Monterey, details in BRDSTG-3250.
- Eric Wang: (1) Tested access control of Anonymous Visitors group and All Users group, added common functions to get/set server runtime settings, added end-to-end tests. (2) Working on Jira stories of Data-Server, added unit tests for lib function changePackageDataSourceRaw(), added end-to-end for hyperlink in expression column, WEBJMP-3756. (3) JMP 17 EA4 sanity check for SAS Integration.
- Da Li: (1) JMP 17 EA4 sanity check for import/export components. (2) Working on JMP Live stories of redesign folder page for a data posts, Dashboard - Lighthouse Evaluation. (3) Tested other Jira stories/bugs. (4) Added Confluence page How to install office 2019&2021.
- Mike Wu: (1) JMP 17 EA4 installer testing and sanity check for ODBC/SQL, HTML5 Profilers, Excel Addin. (2) Subscription and Trial Activation testing against AWS TEST server, Jira BRDSTG-3223 (3) Tested JMP Live stories about add empty folder. (4) Investigated TS report 7613464401.
- Kimi: JMP 17 EA4 installer sanity check for SAS Integration, FD, Python Interface.
- Nala: (1) JMP 17 EA4 installer sanity check for TE, Cas Integration, FD. (2) Executing JMP 16.2 sanity check for TE and Cas Integration on Windows 11 and Monterey. (3) Tested other Jira stories/bugs.
Data Discovery
- Evan: Changed the Select Where action script to use a JSL datetime literal instead of a name when working with datetimes so it would replay properly. Fixed Window Handler ASAN issue with Recode Column Names. Fixed Window Handler Mac-only crash dealing with icons. Fixed bad streamout of dt:name when used in a formula. Raising maximum data size supported by JString::compress for HTML use.
- Dave B: Fixed hover label priority to allow marker hover labels to take priority over lines, fixed hover label location problem with stacked lines, fixed blinking refresh button for MFI on the Mac, and fixed legend selection bug when saving/opening journals.
- Dan S: Fixed scatterplot matrix performance issue (10x speedup on drawing), working on changes for JRP / Session files.
DOE
- Brad: Was an external examiner of an Oral Ph.D. preliminary for a student of Jon Stallrich at NCSU. Submitted an abstract for a presentation at the European Discovery. Working on a new UI for model selection in Easy DOE with Joseph Morgan and Mark Bailey.
- Joseph: Continued work on Easy DOE. Working on Analyze and Predict tabs plus JSL support. Also, fixed several miscellaneous bugs.
Host
- Michael H: Updated Mac 3rd-party library iODBC to the latest version (3.52.15) to resolve crashes encountered on macOS Monterey. Worked with Nick Ruva to debug MATLAB licensing issue on Mac Big Sur – still no resolution.
- Bryan B: Threaded support for retrieving multiple attributes from OSIPi simultaneously. Started work on making OSIPi accessible via JSL.
- John Schroedl: Started work on custom url scheme handling for opening DT from JMP Live link. Update About box to load third-party notices from embedded Credits.rtf. Updating code with idiomatic forward references.
Note from Shannon
If you didn’t get up in the middle of the night to watch the Blood Moon lunar eclipse, there are many videos and pictures online that show what it looked like! Thanks to Bryan Fricke for sharing this picture he took. Hope you all have a great weekend!
