Welcome to the JMP Development Update for June 17, 2022!
We will have our second quarter JMP company Rest and Recharge day on Monday, June 20th in observation of the Juneteenth holiday on Sunday! You do not need to take a day off in Workday for Monday. But you do need to spend the day doing something other than work. I hope you all enjoy the long, dual holiday weekend as we also celebrate Father’s Day on Sunday. Whether you are a dad, are celebrating your dad or partner, or are remembering a father, grandfather, uncle or any other dad figure who has been an important influence on you, I hope you have a great one!
We’re in Code Review mode for JMP 17. Please create your Swarm review on jmpswarm.na.sas.com or arrange an in-person or virtual walkthrough of your planned change with another developer BEFORE you submit code into main. Please also consider inviting the tester who will be looking at your change to the review, since understanding the nature of your code change helps the tester better understand how to verify it.
Thanks to everyone for working to resolve issues before we reach our Code Approval milestone on 6/22/22. At that point, you will need to send a note to the JMP Approvers list and secure 4 approvals before you push a change to main. Please include a link to your Swarm review, a link to the Jira issue, and a description of the issue and any potential impact to doc/L10N/testing. When you make your push, please reference the Jira issue number so that the Jira-Swarm integration adds a link to the changelist.
We’ll be freezing for JMP 17 EA9 on 7/8/22. Thanks for continuing to update your feature pages with important fixes that customers should know about. This late EA is will help us collect important bug reports that we can address either before we freeze JMP 17.0 or during the JMP 17.1 cycle. Of course, we’ll also get some input on features that can be added to the list for future releases.
Speaking of JMP 17, I attended the product management team first JMP 17 New Features training for field teams on Tuesday morning. At both this and the Coffee with PM session on Tuesday evening, there was a lot of excitement about JMP 17 from teams around the world! (Please note: click the links to request recording access) Even as development wraps up JMP 17 work and we collaborate with product management and marketing to release the software and share details with customers, the PM team is already gathering information and evaluating priorities for JMP 18.
Mia mentioned that the PM team is getting ready to close responses to the internal JMP 18 Global Roadmap survey as well as a sister survey that was sent to EA customers. Mia will publish the final results on JMP Live when they’re ready. However, she did share one sneak peek at one aspect of the results below! This graph is brought to you by the new multiple response functionality in Graph Builder (which Mia loves) and summarizes the 85 EA customer responses so far about what they thought might be the most important JMP 17 new features for them.
As you can see, JMP Search is one of the JMP 17 NFs that showed up on the list above. In case you are wondering, the JMP search interface looks for matches based on your JMP display language. On Mac, this language preference is driven by the OS. On Windows, it is driven by the language specified in your JMP preferences. Search queries will only be understood in the language currently showing in the JMP user interface, and results will only be shown in that one language.
This feature has been through internationalization (I18N) testing performed by our JMP Beijing testing team (as have other major JMP 17 features). Nala’s team also helped us give Evan feedback on searches when running JMP in Simplified Chinese. Some additional testing in other display languages was done by the Cary testing team and the team has put some unit tests in place.
However, we’d like to broaden this effort by asking for your help, if you regularly run JMP in another language. Mia is helping solicit input from internal JMP team members across the world who use JMP in languages other than English. If you’d like to participate and offer search feedback, you can respond here to the survey: JMP Search Localization – Internal Feedback. Mia asks that you use JMP 17 EA8 and share your feedback by Tuesday, June 21. Thanks in advance for your help!
Finally, thanks very much to Chandra Ramnarayanan, Sam Gardner, and Brady Brady for showing off their Quality by Design risk assessment add-in at the JMP dev meeting! If you missed the meeting, you can find a downloaded copy of the recording here. The chat was very active with questions and comments ongoing throughout the whole meeting, so thanks to everyone who contributed thoughts and feedback on the functionality the team showed. The add-in is not currently available to customers on the file exchange, but you can contact Chandra, Sam or Brady if you’d like to give it a test drive and offer your feedback.
General Announcements
- Thanks to Anne Milley for sharing the following information about an upcoming Discovery speaker! Anne said, “Today we got the verbal acceptance for JMP user and neuroscientist Suzana Herculano-Houzel, to be one of the plenary speakers for Discovery Summit Europe. In her email she wrote, ”It will be SO cool to show you guys data analyzed with your software
and I’m submitting the paper today, so I’m happy to give you a sneak preview: I can show that T. rex must have had baboon-like numbers of neurons in the brain, which makes them REALLY scary 
”
Important Upcoming Dates
- JMP 17 Code Approval – 6/22/22
- JMP 17.0 EA9 – 7/8/22
- JMP 17 Code Freeze – 7/20/22
- Please visit Confluence for a full list of JMP 17 dates.
JMP Development Updates
- Please visit this page to view bug verification lists for JMP 17.0.
Product Management
- Dan V: Announced new pricing changes planned for August 1, 2022. Deal Support Team meeting with Core Pricing Group. Updated Global Software Approval Matrix. Renewal Case Discussion with Deloitte. Discussed Hosted JMP Live offering with core pricing team, Dieter, Jon and Brian. Continued work on CPQ/NetSuite price and offering list. JMP 17 Sales and Marketing Training with PM team. Interviewing for PM Position, Quality and Reliability. Pricing Tier analysis work with Kaylee and Andy.
- Mia:
- Prep for JMP 17 Sales and Marketing Training (Easy DOE and Spectral). Thanks Bill Worley and Ryan Parker for help with the spectral example and details. Working on JMP 17 release materials, including “New In” features with Landra, and quotes with Anne Milley.
- Planning for Asia Pacific Discovery conferences (China, Korea and Japan). Instead of live meet the experts, we’ll have pre-recorded developer lightning talks and pre-recorded Q&A. We’ll need these recordings ready by late July (in time for China Discovery), so we’re working on the list of topics and presenters now and Jeff Hudgins will coordinate recording sessions. (If you developed or tested a cool new feature, you might be asked to present – please stay tuned.)
- Recorded a podcast for SEFI (European Society for Engineering Education) on JMP, Statistical Thinking, and STIPS - JMP is a corporate partner. Close to releasing the Spanish translation of STIPS (with Module 1). Working with JMP Ed on identifying STIPS updates for JMP 17.
- Bryan F:
- Gave an overview of Search JMP, which was developed by Evan McCorkle at the JMP 17 Training session on the key new features. An overview of the features and the presentation itself can be found here.
- Continued to develop icons and splash screen/banners.
- Splash Screens/Banners: Delivered updated graphic for Windows banner shown on about dialog and revised splash screen for Mac so that the text area isn’t transparent.
- WFB Icons: Created and delivered 3 new icons on Mac at different resolutions and colors (light and dark mode versions) and created dark mode specific icons based on feedback from Audrey. For Windows, created WFB ico file for WFB file type which embeds an icon file and multiple resolutions. For Mac, created WFB icns file for WFB.
- Text Alignment Icons: Created 6 different icons at 2 different resolutions and 2 different colors (i.e., 24 icons) for showing vertical and horizontal alignment.
- Held a meeting/chat with Chris Gotwalt, Russ Wolfinger, and Xan Gregg regarding https://rndjira.sas.com/browse/JMP-7412. We’ve had several users complain about the colors for the matrix of correlation values not matching the color map for correlations.
- Also attended the live opening session of Nielsen/Norman Conference today and this image from the presentation seemed relevant to consider:
Technical Support
- Duane: TS is starting to see more and more issues with JMP Subscription – mainly around student renewals and renewals after expiration. Hopefully, we can get these under control soon, as the customer experience is not exceptional. Besides that, several of us in TS are meeting with Product Management to talk about a process for handling feature requests (existing and future).
- And as usual, here are the TS JMP Live reports. (JMP Live 16) Here is information regarding Jira tickets opened by Tech Support.
Development Operations
- Jim: Decommissioned two Late 2012 Mac Minis that I expect to replace as maintenance unit test machines. Ongoing Perforce support. There have not been as many new ASAN, UBSAN, LEAKS or assertion failures reported recently. Did a few mac OS software updates.
- Shannon: Worked with Nick to troubleshoot the misbehaving ImageDiff process, authored by a doc summer student many years ago. Met with Susan, Qiana, Chris H and Michael G to discuss JMP Live help keys and the help production process.
Localization
- Angelita: JMP Live Review material delivered to Frank; created Portable UI and Builtins Kits to deliver to translation; starting on sample data kits.
- Howard: Resolved issue with query system (JMPTOOL-484); worked on MIF condition checker job (JMPTOOL-482), and scoping work for changes to commit/return jobs JMPTOOL-233. Python training.
- Melanie: Commits for Portable UI and Builtins; Validations for Portable UI and builtin kits; met with doc team to discuss HTML5 and JMPLive Help; working to get clarity on need for copyright in builtins.
- Sandy: Created Portable UI and Builtin Kits to deliver to translation; JSL class ½ day each day this week (which she loved :smiling_face_with_smiling_eyes:).
- Trish: Project mgmt. L10N schedule, projects & Jira updates; met with doc team to discuss HTML5 and JMPLive Help; met with Audrey to review over i18n testing for 17.0; met with professional development workstream team; delayed handoff of Deployment Guides to localization; proposed and then created new Jira component for DJ Localized Web pages.
- Updates to JMPLoc Project Jiras this week.
Documentation
- Qiana: Attended Coaching for Performance class. Participated in a discussion of the JMP Live and HTML5 Help workflow for L10N. Talked with Ruth and Mia about JMP’s new user experience and the resources we offer to them. Attended a meeting about the JMP Live Help map and keys. Continued work on the UG doc. Began work on the NF doc. Corresponded with Rachel about copyright issues/questions.
- Susan C: Updating JMP Live end user help. Updated publish section of the UG book for JMP Live and sent that content to Michael G and Aaron A for review.
- Chris B: Finalized many updates to the Sample Index. Small updates to the JMP Scripting Guide and JSL Syntax Reference.
System/Host Testing-Cary
- Nick H: Verified Script Editor, Scripting Index, and session updates and reported numerous bugs in Jira. Editing the prototypes and examples for Col functions in the Scripting Index to cover the use of Excluded( Row State() ) as a by variable, which was added in 15 but had yet to be documented in the OSI. Created documentation for JMP Search Unit Testing which should help other testers in diagnosing and correcting failures and provide a general understanding of how the tests work. Enhancements to the JSL Unit Test GUI allowing for custom test lists to be created and viewed has been code reviewed and will be pushed next week hopefully, along with a confluence page detailing the changes.
- Mandy: Verifying Workflow Builder JIRA fixes and testing additions. Now you can add a platform to your WF by using the RT menu and selecting the Save > To workflow. Worked with PPP loan data, building my own workflow to demo and use in my Discovery presentation, using lots of data clean up features. Met with Lisa Grossman, as she is going to assist me and share some cool graphs and charts to use with my demo. Met with Mike Muhlada to talk about workflows Sikuli tests. Tested action recorder fixes and added unit tests for those changes.
- Mike M: Found pending issue with Y-axis padding on an MSA chart from image diffs. Investigating Save Preferences for a few Sikuli tests. GREAT meetings with Annie and Mandy to review potential CCB and WFB scenarios for Sikuli tests. Started writing those tests. Attended JMP Weekly Team meeting with Beijing team on Thursday morning. It was SO FUN to see everyone and catch up!
- Lisa G: Worked on 17.0 verifications and starting project to include Jira tickets in the Defects Dashboard report.
- Audrey: adjust Sample Data Index Test.jsl after changes to Sample Index, Jira verifications, JMP Live testing, Matlab testing for Ventura OS, Q2 conversations with staff.
- Josh: Triaging JMP Live server issues on the machines I maintain. JMP Live Story and Jira Bugs, we have had a blizzard of Jira’s the last 2 weeks.
- Beijing / Cary JMP Live Testing Jira Status
- 06 Stories in Testing
- 105 Stories in Test Ready
- 30 Bugs Created in the last 7 days.
- 146 Stories / Bugs Closed in the last 7 days
System/Host Testing-Beijing
- Beijing Team:
- JMP Live 17 scenario-based testing:
- JMP Live 17 scenario-based testing summary meeting. Everyone provided the proposed test cases for JMP Live E2E test and JMP Live Migration tests.
- Reviewed test cases that proposed for JMP Live E2E tests and JMP Live Migration tests. (Eric, Da)
- Eric Wang: (1) Working on JMP Live Jira stories/bugs, added integration/unit tests (2) Updating JMP Live JSL unit tests due to recent behavior changes. (3) Reviewed proposed JMP Live E2E test cases.
- Da Li: (1) Working on JMP Jira stories/bugs. (2) Update UT cases scripts for excel and OSIPI import failures. (3) Investigated the report issue with customized map files (4) Reviewed proposed JMP Live Migration test cases JMP Live Migration testing.
- Mike Wu: (1) Working on JMP Jira stories/bugs. (2) Monthly check of OLE VB automation testing for JMP Pro 17.0 has been done for June, see JMPTESTBJ-1481.
- Kimi: (1) Working on JMP Jira stories/bugs. (2) Investigated JSL UT failures. (3) Investigated the Jenkins failures.
- Nala: (1) Working on JMP Jira stories/bugs. (2) Attended the training of Manager Journey.
Data Discovery
- Evan: Added $SAMPLE_WORKFLOWS path variable. Prevent hidden features from showing up in JMP Search. More consistent presentation of version annotation information in JMP Search. Action recording for Save Script to Data Table, Item Analysis, and Multivariate.
DOE
- Caleb: Fixed some Compare Design crashes and some final (hopefully!) bug work on Sample Size Explorers. I also helped Karen with reviewing documentation on ALT designs, MSA designs, and the explorers and Ryan with reviewing our Statistical Engineering case study paper submitted this week (kudos to Ryan for leading the effort!). I’ve also got another paper soon to be submitted on Order of Addition Experiments with Dennis Lin and his post-doc.
- Peng: Early in the week, I worked on JMP-306 S1241900: Scripting Index should show ScriptItems corresponding to SiType::Columns, in order to reduce duplicated codes. Then fixed (JMP-12941) JMP hangs when there is only one observation, which I introduced in a recent change. Thanks to Rajneesh and Elizabeth. And, I am now working with Joseph and Ryan on Easy DOE.
Host
- Paul N:
- Fixed JMP-13003 – Biplot Rays lose labels when journaled. A defect/enhancement making display3Dtext segments scale when using the settings slider caused this issue. The scaled size utilized a new variable that maintained the scaled size, but that was never journaled out, so on loading a journal it wasn’t initialized. The fix makes sure that the text size journaled is the updated scaled size and that no new variable is introduced into the journaling, so all older journals should be compatible.
- Working on macOS Metal 3D graphics. Found an example program of 3D picking using Metal, however it’s written in Swift. So I’ve had to learn just enough Swift to be dangerous. That way I can rewrite the example in ObjC. Once that’s working I can look to implement the within JMP. Picking has been one of the sticking point in making the conversion from OpenGL 1.x to Metal.
- John Schroedl: Working on Privacy settings and UI for telemetry work. Icon and recent file fixes for Workflows. Updated copyrights in various tools included in our install.
- Daniel Powell: Jess Ng and I are working to connect the new JMP PER API into Mulesoft.
HTML5
- John Powell:
- Triaged bugs. Outlined a plan for JMP 17.1 for the HTML5 team. Added JMP Live Best Practices for Open in JMP, custom maps, and column switchers. Discussed HTML5 Interactive testing automation with Hui and Steve.
- Gave Dieter some details on HTML5 performance improvements in JMP 17 for a call with WL Gore. Investigated a problem seen by Regeneron with scatterplots in a dashboard on JMP Live
- Investigated an issue with Custom Maps on JMP Live reported by Florence Kussener (WEBJMP-5629) and discovered a related bug while investigating (WEBJMP-5623). Investigated a crash when publishing a Control Chart with a Column Switcher attached in an unsupported way (WEBJMP-5607) and provided a work-around.
- Started Pre-work for Situational Leadership course
- Mayowa: Fixed bugs with brush selection in box plots (JMPHTML-1635), also fixed a related bug with brush selecting box plot outliers that involved modifying how markers are selected in interactive HTML. Currently, working on fixing selection and tooltip bugs for box plots with shortest half set. (JMPHTML-1512, JMPHTML-1510).
- Paul S: Working on Text and Font issues for HTML5.
Statistics
- Elizabeth: Investigating issues enabling a weight variable with Fit Mixed as it may point to where estimation of the scale parameter in the Negative Binomial distribution for GLMMs is not quite correct. The negative binomial distribution is the top requested additional distribution for GLMMs and is vital for count data.
- Annie: Fixing Control Chart Jira issues and doing Swarm code reviews for others.
- Laura C-S: Continued fixing bugs and a couple crashes in SEM.
Stat Documentation
- Colleen: Documented the Design Space Profiler, worked on some of the FDE updates, and started putting things in the New Feature document.
- Karen: Finishing up sample size explorers, accelerated life testing, MSA and have started on Easy DOE.
Stat Testing
- Mark: Designing Easy DOE with Brad and Joseph. Testing Easy DOE with Jacob. Met with Karen to help documentation with our experience. Working on presentation at JMP Discovery Summit USA.
- Jacob: Testing Easy DOE, updating unit tests and verifying Jira tickets. Investigating potential performance issues. Responding to EA feedback for Easy DOE.
Note from Shannon
Have a great Juneteenth and Father’s Day weekend!
By the way, the Juneteenth holiday celebrating the end of slavery in the United States has been celebrated for 160 years but only became a federal holiday in 2021. JMP is observing Juneteenth with a day off that we will use for rest and recharge. Interested in what some other big tech companies are planning? Check out this article.
By the way, tech company Google has featured Juneteenth-themed doodles in recent years. But it wasn’t always so. Artist Davian Chester went viral when he created his own Juneteenth doodle in 2018 when Google did not feature one (see one story about it here and another from the Washington Post here).
