Welcome to the JMP Development Update for October 7, 2022!
Well in advance of the upcoming release of JMP 17.0, Anne Milley has been working with customers to gather quotes that we can use in launch materials. She shared this link that you can visit to see all the quotes she’s collected so far. There are many nice comments about major new features, and also a quote I especially liked from Dr. Anderson Mayfield:
With each new version of JMP, there’s always a nice mix of new features we avid users directly requested (via the wish list) as well as things we didn’t even know would benefit our research but for which the development team had the forethought to improve upon (or incorporate anew).
His example of the latter was the tables preview feature which is definitely one of those features I use all the time in JMP 17 and could not live without! I noticed former JMPer Bernd Heinen also commented on how much he liked it. I know we’re all looking forward to more of our customers being able to download JMP 17 soon via My.JMP.com and experience all the new features. It won’t be long now!
Thanks very much to Tonya Mauldin for sharing this week’s Beta/Crash/Telemetry report with crashes selected.
Beta/Crash/Telemetry report for the week of 10/7/2022 | JMP Live (sas.com)
General Announcements
- Thanks to Mandy Chambers for sharing this picture from the WIN breast cancer walk that she helped out with on Wednesday. Mandy says it had “great turnout, like the old days at the RFC with food trucks and all, and we raised money for this organization: “Walk for a Sister” of the triangle - If you missed being able to donate, here is the link: Donate here to Sisters Network Triangle NC SAS Team.” Thanks, Mandy!
Important Upcoming Dates
- JMP 17.0 Ship Date – 10/18/22
- JMP 17.1 Feature Freeze – 10/21/22
- JMP 17.1 Code Freeze – 12/16/22
- Please visit Confluence for a full list of JMP 17 dates.
JMP Development Updates
Host
- John Schroedl: Working on code to clone shared files and registry values from older SAS-branded locations to JMP-branded locations on first run of an JMP 18 install. Affects Addins, Custom Maps, various customizations, JMP Subscriptions files, etc. (JMP- 12773, JMP- 12774).
- Daniel: Working with Jess Ng and the My JMP UAT team to get the JMP License API tested and rolled out to Production as well as fully migrating our web activation system to AWS for JMP 18+!
- Paul N: Most of week spent on VSSTs for host OS crypto libraries on macOS and Windows, for JMP 16 and 17. Updating the platform questionnaires for JMP Live 16 and 17 for Daniel. Work on Open Streetmap server.
HTML5
- John Powell: Tagged Jira Feature Requests for PM review and prioritization for JMP 18. Had quarterly check-ins. Looked at a resume for our open position, now open to eastern time zone remote. Held Knowledge transfer sessions for Interactive HTML Markers (Points). Learned about the OTR process for managers. Updated error bars in 17.1 & 18 to handle a change in JMP 17 (JMPHTML-1215). Updated background maps in 17.1 & 18 to handle a change in JMP 17 (JMPHTML-889). Investigated issue with Text Explorer on JMP Live (WEBJMP-6134).
- Mayowa: Fixed bug with mosaic graphs within journals not displaying when they are saved as Interactive HTML (JMPHTML-1311), worked on fixing bug with repeated tooltip values for Bar charts (JMPHTML-574), triaging new feature requests for JMP 18.
Attended a knowledge transfer session by John Powell on Marker Segment.
JMP Live
- Aurora: 18.0: Bug fixes, performance improvements. Miscellaneous: Working on the plan for moving JMP Live to Git.
- Michael G: 17.1 Bug fixing. Building UI proposals from user study data.
Statistics
- John Sall: Contributed to JMP-wide webcast. Partition - Fix ROC for special case (JMP-14302). Added One-click sorts for reports (JMP-14238, JMP-14239, JMP-14243, JMP-14244, JMP-14245). Explore Outliers now respects Excluded in change high nines to missing (JMP-13973). Nonlinear prevent crash on window close while iterating (JMP-14305). Response Screening has better scripts in 2-by-M saved table (JMP-11952).
- Laura C-S: Fixed some bugs that improve usability of the Model Comparison table in SEM, such as making sure model names are unique, that users can revise model names even after models have been fit, and that table customizations are remembered. I’m also preparing a presentation for Discovery Japan.
Stat Documentation
- Michael C: Continued work on 17.1 updates in the doc for various platforms; responded to a question from a translator; attended first Jira admin group meeting.
- Karen: Keeping up with small edits during this 17.1 phase for docs.
Stat Testing
- Jacob: Working with Mark Bailey, Ryan Lekivetz, and Bryan Fricke on coming up with ideas to help with Easy DOE pain points identified at Discovery. Created a JSL prototype to help address these pain points. Working on a script for a DOE Factors UI prototype. Adding performance files to automatically re-run failing test cases.
- Tonya: Working on bug verification and service cloud reporting.
Product Management
- Bryan: Greg Kraus indicated SAS would not continue to update VPATs for JMP. For now, I plan to update the version number in existing VPATs with new product numbers until we make noticeable improvements in terms of accessibility. Continued to participate in ideation sessions with JMP Live, WFB teams, JMP Search, and EasyDOE teams and hope to have some prototyping usability sessions soon. Met with JMP UX Workstream to review a revised bivariate usability script. Had some conversations about WinUI; my thought is that WinUI is critical for improving the look and feel of JMP and also relates to accessibility issues.
Development Operations
- Bob: Prepared employee download files and page for 17.0. Met with John Schroedl to discuss changes for 18 involving Windows registry and other folders when we remove "SAS". Started work and discussion for design of Clinical updaters on Windows. Published JMP 18 dates page.
- Myron: Working on a simple UI and download links for telemetry (JMP-12704). Working on getting JiraBot dev up and running for testing Jira Cloud. Setting up some new doc jobs (JMPTOOL-582, JMPTOOL-583).
- Jim: Helped HTML5 Live team with build machines. Met with Drew to discuss JMP 17.1 branching strategies for Clinical. Reported LEAKS from the latest UT run; verified several Jira tickets.
- Melanie: JMPLive Retrospective. Testing for Localization Automation. Atlassian Migration Testing. Testing for changes in Builtins/Tutorials Architecture for 18.0. Began SAS Security Training Part 2.
- Shannon: Entered Jira issues for mystery crashes, with test case help from Dave B and Dan S. Meetings with PM about Jira usage for wish list and prioritization. Meeting about Jira/Confluence user acceptance testing next week.
Documentation
- Susan C: Continued working on Confluence Doc space revamp. Updated copyright dates in all books. Assisted with help issues. Still working on alternative fixes to cut-off equations. Created help key training slides and gave training.
- Chris B: Worked on correcting Windows paths: JMPDOC-1618, JMPDOC-1619, JMPDOC-1620, JMPDOC-1621, and JMPDOC-1622. Worked on correcting JMPLive and JMPPublic noindex tags. Worked on process to correct the broken equation images.
System/Host Testing-Cary
- Mandy: Adding actions to Workflow builder presentation for October. Opened Jira issues for problems reported in several (4) TS tracks. Testing and verifying 18.0 issues, so they can be fixed at 17.1. Josh: JMP Live Story and Bug verification, Server maintenance - started to move the machine called JMPLiveRelease to AWS. The server has been built and it is running. I’m just waiting on confirmation that we are going to keep the same domain name before we switch over. Worked with some folks in Japan that were trying to publish to some of servers here in the US. They are seeing slow response times. This seems to be due to network latency. I have opened a bug to see if there are any improvements we could do to make this better in a later JMP Live release.
- Nick H: Worked on some tests for improvements made to the subbox and window scrolling and support for class methods <
- Mike M: Updates to Sikuli tests for maps. Opened several new Jiras covering: Dashboard encryption, Formula Editor layout not being applied, HTML error bars shifted, report property updates not saved to JSL. Verifying JMP 17 and 18 issues. Newly published JMP HTML L10N Help docs tested for 17.0 release. I’m also working to update and submit my JMP Discovery paper on Formula Editor deep dive.
Data Discovery
- Dave B: Updated jmprunner with the new jmp install path, added a recall button for MFI, changed MFI so that it will match columns in different orders when stacking tables, added a manage rules button to the tablebox Numeric Format dialog to make it easier to delete old conditional highlighting rules, and created a test case for a control chart builder crash.
- Evan: Working to expose some of Term to JSL. Investigated user-defined function Nonlinear crash. JMP Search usability ideation and prototypes. Working to make the transition from JMP Search to selected platform items smoother. Refactoring of platform launcher and platform launch code towards that end.
- Dan S: Session updates to use $SAMPLE_DATA paths and prepare for more use cases for script generation. Updated platforms to remove the stored parent box. Removed confusing error report in Term when all values are missing. More work on scrolling messages from JSL.
- Ernest: Migrating fixes back to 17.1. Usability work. Columns viewer prototyping.
DOE
- Caleb: Merged several bug fixes into 17.1 for the sample size explorers. Preparing for the Fall Technical Conference next week in Utah, where I’ll be presenting on a paper in the JQT invited session as well as hosting an award session in which Brad will give the Youden address. Ryan and I are also finishing work on a paper with Sky.
- Joseph: Working on Easy DOE Jira tickets plus string work. Helped Massimo Martucci get started with an Easy DOE webinar. Finished edits for a statistical engineering paper that will be forthcoming in a special issue. Reviewing papers for QRS2022.
- Peng: Continued working with Bill on his research. And researching on semiconductor product reliability to respond a tech support inquiry.
- Ryan L: Heading to a conference in Greensboro this weekend, to present on new type of orthogonal designs.
- Brad: Finishing up my Youden Address for FTC next week.
Note from Shannon
Thanks to Bob Hickey for sharing this fun fact - Monday, Oct 10, will mark the 20 year anniversary of the release of JMP 5.0.1! If you’re feeling nostalgic, you can buy a used copy of the JMP 5 documentation on Ebay here. Have a great weekend!
