Welcome to the JMP Development Update for March 24, 2023!
JMP 17.1 installer testing continues this week. Thanks very much to our testing teams in Cary and Beijing for all the work you’re putting in checking out various configurations, products and linked deliverables! Audrey reports that we are expecting to sign off at some point early next week.
As a reminder, JMP 17.1 updaters are planned to be available on support.sas.com by early April but may be released a bit sooner depending on when final signoff occurs. Full installers for JMP 17.1 will be delivered to brand new customers in My.JMP in select regions that are currently using the new end to end JMP purchase process. Full installers for JMP 17.1 will be available for legacy customers when My.JMP is ready for those accounts.
In a few short weeks, we will also freeze for JMP 18 EA2 – currently planned for 4/7/23. Please continue to update your feature pages here in the JMP 18 Features Category. This is extremely helpful as product management prepares to share the latest round of JMP 18 updates with our participating customers. Mia reports that this process has been greatly streamlined in JMP 18 by the combination of our new feature page template and the excerpt feature in Confluence. She uses excerpts to pull information from the Motivation and Summary section directly into a single source Confluence page which is in turn used to cascade development details to both early adopters and internal teams working on release materials.
Thanks to the marketing teams who coordinated in the early am to deliver JMP Discovery Europe for customers, and to development and other technical staff for presenting and meeting with JMP Discovery Europe online attendees during Meet the Experts and other sessions! Please continue to contribute your notes here in Confluence. If you enter Discovery suggestions, Mia Stephens and Sarah Sylvestre request that you add Feature Requests in the JMPPRODMGMT project for triage. You should also add the DISCOVERY_EUROPE_2023 label and track the Origin as Customer, Internal Customer, or another category as appropriate.
Thanks to Sara Doudt of the JMP product management team for presenting this week with (and to) sales and marketing teams who are adopting our JMP standard cloud collaboration tools, Atlassian’s Confluence and Jira. You can read more about Sara’s presentation here in the Product Management Library. By the way, everyone who has a Confluence license has their own personal space. You can click on your user icon at the top right corner of any Confluence page and select Personal Space to find yours. If you need a new work-related space to store content and collaborate with your team, please reach out to Audrey Shull or me to help set one up. If you also have access to Jira, you can enter your request in the JIRAHELP project.
Jira Tip of the Week: Did you know you can connect MS Teams to Jira? This one-time setup will turn all your pasted Jira links into nicely-formatted cards, which allow you edit or comment on an issue directly in Teams. The Comment button opens a small dialog (within Teams) for you to add a comment. The Edit Issue button opens a small dialog (within Teams) where you can change status, assignee, priority, or add labels and attachments. The Open in Jira button will take you to the issue within your web browser.
To install this app, if you are not already seeing these cards, find the … in Teams underneath one of your chats. Search for Jira Cloud and select it. You may be asked to Configure (choose … in the dialog to find the Configure button) in order to connect to our Jira instance and may have to login. After that, you should be all set!
General Announcements
- 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 18 EA2 Freeze – 4/7/23
- JMP 18 EA3 Freeze – 5/12/23
- JMP 17.2 Code Approval – 6/13/23
- JMP 18 EA4 Freeze – 6/23/23
- JMP 17.2 Code Freeze – 6/30/23
- Please visit Confluence for a full list of JMP 17 and JMP 18 dates.
JMP Development Updates
Host
- Brian: JMP Statistical Discovery LLC finally has a code signing certificate for Windows. After two months, DigiCert approved JMP as verifiable organization and allowed us to obtain the certificate. Another small step in our journey toward independence. Apple had already issued a certificate for our Mac products.
- Paul N:
- JMP Discovery Online – hung out mostly in the Scripting Breakout room. Took latest SABA training course, Vital to SAS Messaging…
- Embedded Python work. Solved several technical issues. All the work is macOS only at present but Windows work will come next. Code has been checked in but is currently disabled.
- Python 3.11.1 as an embedded macOS Framework, and part of the build on my machine.
- Ability to create and use a user specific site_packages folder for Python packages. This allows a user to add additional Python packages to those that JMP’s Python can utilize. This keeps the base Python installation clean and dependable.
- Create nested modules of internal functions to be importable from Python. Structure in place, minimal implementation. logStream, current row count, runJSL, …
- Running the current JMP Python JSL integration using the fully embedded Python in test builds runs right out of the box with no configuration needed.
- Bryan B: Working with Da Zhang, Nala, and Kyoko for an Authorization solution for SAS Viya 4 (CAS). Previously JMP used Basic Authorization, but SAS dropped that and only uses Bearer tokens. Worked with Dahlia for a MySQL workaround in 17.0 and pushed a fix to 17.2 and 18 (JMP-16092). Worked with Dahlia and Nan Wu with a Query Builder fix for dependent lists where an intermediate query results in no table (null). Continuing work on Data Connectors.
- John Schroedl: Making changes to project and build scripts with Bob and Jim to handle code signing differently now that we have an official certificate for JMP LLC. Working on TEConverter to add missing conversions needed for new SAS import code. Help menu changes to remove PDB entries.
- Michel H: Continued work on importing .sas7bdat files (otherwise known as SAS datasets). Explored getting symbolize-crash-report to look for archived historical builds and their symbol files on an alternate server.
HTML
- Paul Spychala: Working on more Font support in HTML (JMPHTML-2045). Also working on making Mosaic Segments aware of scale in HTML (JMPHTML-659, JMPHTML-680, JMPHTML-1862). Also working on matching HTML Log Scales with JMP Desktop (JMPHTML-2004, JMPHTML-1331).
- Mike S: Wrapped up a refactoring issue and began working on a few display issues; continuing working through an O’Reilly Modern Javascript course.
JMP Live
- Aurora: 18.0 - Bug fixing related to data admin access, data import, data update. Investigated JMP 17.1 to JMP Live 18.0 publishing problem (Michael Goff implemented the fix). Pitched and got acceptance on a design proposal for @ mentioning users in comments. Miscellaneous - Discovery Europe online (plenary talk segment on JMP Live, Meet the Experts). Added Jira automation rules for JMP Live with the help of Audrey Shull (linking issues based on comments, advancing to "Developing" when a branch is created). Helped with interviewing for an open position.
Statistics
- Laura C-S: Participated in this week’s Discovery Europe—both presentations went very well. Started working on a measurement invariance model shortcut for SEM. Answered some questions from P&G customer. Prepared and recorded (for backup) for upcoming UNC presentation.
- Jianfeng: Pushed all changes of the exact tests to JMP projects. The exact tests based on the ported code work amazingly well as far as my testing goes. I have asked David to do an extensive testing pass on these exact tests.
- John Sall: Finally retired the old "Neural Net" platform (that was replaced by "Neural" in 2009). It had been JSL-only. (JMP-16086) Added prediction intervals to the Profiler for Fit Group and GenReg JMP-5649).
- Annie: Continuing work on getting the subgroup variable working in Short Run Control Charts.
Stat Documentation
- Mark B: Supported Meet the Expert sessions for DOE and Statistics all three days. Watched on-demand presentations. Attended presentation of invention disclosure new factor and response lists in DOE platforms. Design Easy DOE for JMP 18 with Brad, Joseph. Plan testing Easy DOE for 17.2 with Joseph, Jacob. Answer questions in JMP Community.
- Michael C: Continued working on Scripting Index updates for JMP 18 (Degradation and Reliability Forecast); reviewed some updates for Colleen; planning meetings for JMP 18 updates to the Help menu.
Stat Testing
- Jacob: Testing Load Design in Easy DOE. Testing Make Validation Column. Updating the Usability Study Tool and converting the script into an add-in.
Customer Care
Development Operations
- Melanie: Continuing to test localization Jenkins jobs. Providing information to documentation about some older Jiras. Continuing to work with localization to plan migration of jobs that run on jmptool to AWS. Started a discussion about the general string validation process and how to modernize and simplify it.
- Jim: Reported several crash and assertion failures. Working with Bob and John Schroedl to change the digital signing of JMP components on WinOS. Thanks to Alex for the AWS S3 overview!
Documentation
- Qiana: Worked with other groups across JMP (Product Management, Development, Test, L10N, Tech Writers) on Help Menu simplification projects and next version of ToTD. Created Jiras for ToTD 2.0 project. Worked with Mike M. on WEBJMP-6713: Chinese JMP Live help needs to be published to '..support/help/zh-CN/17.0/' directory ONLY for 17.0. Worked on Retention of JMP Documentation on the Web proposal. Project planning and coordination.
- Susan C: Working on Jira structure for 18.0. Reviewed existing tips for reuse in new TOTD structure. Proposed flow for new users. Working on suggestions to Help menu restructuring and commenting.
- Chris B: Worked on the new Help menu revision, a Help build for Myron for JMPTOOL-582, testing the copy script for JMPTOOL-788, more ePublisher training, and our doc add-in.
System/Host Testing-Cary
- Mandy: Did Discovery Summit online plenary at 5:30 am Tuesday – it went well and has been fun working with such a great team! I’m blessed to have had that opportunity. Testing JMP 18 new additions for workflow builder and writing tests for the new DataTable/Workflow Builder folder, including workflows for publishing reports with data pulled from query builder. Catching up on other JIRA’s for 18 changes and will add new tests where they are needed. Working on a short blog post to add to the Workflow Builder conversations from Discovery.
- Hunter: Finished JMP 17.1 installer testing and opened several minor JIRA items, moved files under my folder name from JMPSRV01 out to OneDrive, tested JMP Runner on Mac developer build for Aaron’s fix for JMP-15822, and reported two crashes…one using Search results to launch and run the PDF Import Wizard and another opening a reliability report in the project window.
- Audrey: Lots of Jira & Confluence config this week including two open tickets with Atlassian for support. Confluence demo for Sales & Marketing. Finishing up 17.1 Installer Testing. Migrating more internal data-monitoring jobs to AWS (JMPTOOL-741).
JMP Web Testing-Cary
- Josh L: Completed JMP Pro and JMP Live installer testing. Signed off on JMP Live 17.1. Created some documentation in confluence to help others with common Active Directory issues. Stated testing the Alpha version of Active Directory sync in JMP Live 18.0.
Web Testing Team Jira status
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Test Ready
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Testing
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Bugs Created in the last 7 days
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Stories Closed in the last 7 days
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- Anna: Finished 17.1 Installer testing. Verified Paul S’s new text font family support for HTML5. With Lisa G’s help, investigating issue Xan fixed that Craige Hales reported for Background map quality appears worse in JMP 16 compared to JMP 17 Detailed Earth bug in the Compact mode. Considering fix for OSM. Testing Box Plot HTML5 tooltip issue for outliers when overlay added.
System/Host Testing-Beijing
Data Discovery
- Dan S: Continued work on Group Platform, with added support for ordering reports in a number of ways. Added Tree Box to Application Builder. Fixed a crash when closing a DOE report that was caused by my Session changes, and helped with support for saving some of the DOE reports to Project/Session/JRP files.
- Evan: Performance improvements for Where including vectorizing Is Missing, vectorizing Equal, symbol inlining, and constant folding. Working on parallelizing Where and vectorization of the last fewer comparison operators (to have vectorized coverage of most Data Filter generated where clauses).
DOE
- Brad: Working to provide Taylor & Francis high resolution graphics files for the recently accepted paper with JQT. I gave a simulive presentation of that talk on Tuesday for the Virtual JMP Discovery Europe.
- Peng: Continue working on new development for JMP 18. Plus, implemented hazard function profiler in Parametric Survival to address the need of a customer, who visited Meet-the-Expert.
- Caleb: Presented a quick overview of the improved Sample Size Explorers as part of Wednesday’s plenary session at Discovery Europe online. I also participated in all of the Meet the Experts session, where we got lots of good feedback and questions!
Note from Shannon
I hope you all enjoy the beautiful weather this evening and have a great weekend!
