Welcome to the JMP Development Update for July 7, 2023!
We are now in Code Freeze mode for JMP 17.2. This means that source code changes are done, and we are doing final work for documentation, localization, testing, installers and other final production tasks. Daily builds and nightly unit tests will continue for another several weeks while these finishing touches are completed. Source code is locked down, though if we do happen to find a show-stopper level of problem that absolutely must be fixed, it is still technically possible to make a source code change for a short window of time. The next major milestone will be our final installer candidate on July 24th.
JMP 18 EA4 was completed last week was announced to customers on July 5th. Thanks to Product Management and everyone who contributed feature info to share on the EA page. JMP 18 EA5 planned to freeze on 8/11/23 so please continue to make those feature page updates!
Our JMP 18 Feature Freeze milestone is coming soon on July 20th. This is the date where we want to have major feature work completed and we will not undertake new big items after that time. We know there are always a few features that need to continue feature work after this date, so Shannon has created a JMP 18 Late Features page to track significant feature work that will be continuing past the deadline. It’s important to track work here to help us assess the impact of any late-breaking items. Please help identify items and add them to this list.
Thank you to Julian Parris, Evan McCorkle, and Dan Schikore (with lots of help in the Q&A from Ernest Pasour) for a great demo on Platform Templates this week. There was good discussion after the demo portion was done. John commented at the end that it will be a premier feature for JMP 18 and adds tremendous value. It was noted that it has been just 66 days since the idea was first floated as a prototype, and in that time has been a flurry of work done by many hands to get Platform Templates to where they are now. If you missed it, be sure to check out the recording here. Customers will be getting their first look in EA4 and additional improvements are ongoing.
Bryan Fricke has a special request: We're hosting a testing event at the 2023 Discovery Summit and need your input. This is an opportunity for you to have your work rigorously tested by conference attendees. Please submit any projects, features, or system components that you'd like to have tested. This includes new functionalities, updates, and especially features you are passionate about improving for usability and accessibility. Please note that while we appreciate all submissions, due to time and resource constraints, we will be selecting the most promising candidates for this round of testing. Thanks for your participation!
Thanks as always to Tonya Mauldin for sharing the beta and crash track summaries for the week.
Combined Beta Report for EA1, EA2, EA3 – There are many reports so be sure to visit JMP Live to see them all. The report pasted below is a treemap of Subtopic. SAS/JMP employees have been hidden and excluded.
Below we see weekly beta report for just this week with crashes selected. View in JMP LIve: Beta/crash report for the week of 7/7/23
Jira Tip of the Week – Many of you using Jira already have discovered pinning fields to the top of your right panel. It’s a handy feature. Two key things to know about pinning: (1) pinning is unique to each project, so if you work with multiple projects, you’ll need to pin your favorite fields once for each one; (2) reordering pins has recently gotten much easier, with drag-and-drop support newly added by Atlassian. Combining these two features has made it much easier for me to get a consistent look and feel across all projects I work with.
General Announcements
- Have you heard about the Tools4Schools donation drive led by our SAS interns? Watch this video to learn how you can help support Wake County teachers this summer. SAS employee donations will be collected from June 22-July 13. Donations can be made remotely through this SAS Amazon Wish List or in person via donation bins in buildings C, A, R, T, G, and U, as well as the Day Care Center.
- In Meet the Interns this week, you can learn more about Brad Norris, Vidisha Mahajan, and JR Cobb.
- 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 Feature Freeze – 7/21/23
- JMP 18 EA5 and JMP Clinical EA3, JMP Live 18 EA1 – 8/11/23
- JMP 18 EA6 and JMP Clinical EA4 – 10/3/23
- JMP 18 EA7 and JMP Clinical EA5 – 12/8/23
- Please visit Confluence for a full list of JMP 17 and JMP 18 dates.
JMP Development Updates
Interns
- Abrah: Check out the Mid-Summer Internship Story on Inside JMP for insights into the experience of our 24 JMP interns so far this summer.
- Trevor: I have been working on building a new data analysis report that analyzing current trends in the Chemical industry. After analyzing the data, I will then go through it and find different ways JMP can increase sales to chemical companies.
- Haley: Continued to write unit tests for the Response Screening platform to cover a variety of scenarios that could arise with genomics data. I’ve also continued performance testing of the platform on a variety of machines with different OS and memory configurations.
- Sohail: Continued working on my poster for intern expo and have started setting up the environment to begin testing an open source machine translation library to see if we can improve on our previous performance.
- Irene: This week I’m mainly working on drafting the Bayesian fault localization paper. I’m also working on further developing the risk analysis and sequential design approach.
- Momena: Customer Facing Meetings: Observed the training sessions provided by JMP to the customers like Truebinding; learned new concepts on t-test and equivalent t-test. Technical Reference Library: Sent out follow up email for the TRL survey to the SEs worldwide and collecting feedbacks; Searched more contents in the TRL to recommend for retirement; Searched possible contents need to be added in the library. Getting Started with JMP: Learning and practicing JMP tools like; building journals, Data analysis, dynamic linking, summary table, join table, excel import wizard, workflow builder; preparing for demo session; presenting Getting Started with JMP demo to the team.
- Parker D: Finalizing some good graphs for my intern-expo poster due next Friday.
Data Discovery
- Xan: Added wrap support to Graph Builder Page role to get a grid of independent graphs.
- Ernest: Platform templates work, multiple response column handling in header stats and Columns Manager
- Dave B: Fixed another table box scrolling problem caused by a new options to force stacked column titles to all be the same height, UI work in add-in builder so templates can be added to addins, fixed a problem where filter and select states were not being top planned out for table boxes.
- Evan: Filing NF Jiras. Attending Platform Templates usability tests. Working on Telemetry Add-In and DispatchKey additions. Preparing/Giving Dev talk.
- Dan: Platform templates - added undo/redo, fix behavior with column switcher in Distrib, scripting updates. Dashboards - fix behavior with Fit Least Squares. Updates to text focus to allow the text focus box to dismiss earlier in some cases, helpful for long-running callback scripts.
- Julian: Welcomed our newest developer, Jared Thomas. Prepared for Platform Templates dev talk, as well as logistics prep for Xan’s upcoming Code Tour of JMP (if you did not receive an invitation and want one, please reach out to me). Will be OOO next week, returning July 17th.
Host
- John Schroedl: Worked with Dan S. on host text entry and we worked out a way for host code to hide the edit field prior to long-running validation in the commit callback.. Looked into project file issue w/ Aaron which appears to be a libzip bug. Added telemetry when interactively changing the active Tool. Starting on toolbar changes for Home Window (JMP-17170).
Interactive HTML
- Mike Stickles: Completed development on JMPHTML-2063; this included additional exploration of how the legends are implemented. Provided combined new hire checklist (integrating multiple checklists from Confluence) for Michael Senoyuit’s use as he onboards. Began “The 5 Choices to Extraordinary Productivity” course as one of my personal development goals.
- Michael Senoyuit: Attended SAS New Hire Orientation, Setup up my workspace and filled out HR paperwork, Started learning JMP.
- Paul Spychala: Added support for the patterned fill selection mode to HTML/JMPLive (starting with Mosaic) [JMPHTML-2183, JMPHTML-2184].
- Praveena: Working on adding menu options to Distribution platform for reports published to JMP Live , added support for Stack menu option for main Distribution. Added support for CDF Plot menu option for Continuous distribution, currently working on adding support for Mosaic Plot menu option for Nominal Distribution and adding more Boolean menu options.
- John P: Submitted Support for Multiple Local Data Filters (JMPHTML-1000). Helped Michael Senoyuit settle in.
Statistics
- Laura C-S: Fixed a couple of crashes in SEM and got back to work on a platform-wide bootstrap. Also finished preparing an abstract submission for a social/personality psychology conference.
DOE
- Brad: Submitting a paper on mixed level saturated screening designs to Technometrics. Revising a paper on an alternative to Lenth’s method for the analysis of unreplicated designs.
- Caleb: Adding JSL support for the new CSALT platform. I’ve also been working on a manuscript for the Reliability and Maintainability Symposium being held in January 2024.
Stat Testing
- Mark: Closing tickets for JMP 17.2 bugs and JMP 18 new features in Easy DOE with Jacob. Finished several versions of poster presentation at HCI conference with Jacob. Answered questions in JMP Community.
- Tonya: Beta reporting and I’ve been testing short run control charts.
- Jacob: Verifying DOE fixes for JMP 18. Investigating potential performance issues. Unit test cleanup
Product Management
- Bryan F: Moderated a couple of internal usability tests for Platform Templates using an Amazon AppStream instance to deliver JMP. Sarah Sylvestre is organizing external usability tests for the next couple of weeks. Also, delivered some more dark mode icons. Performed further investigation of using Telerik for a more modern JMP appearance and coordinating with Julian and his team on exploring an approach for separating padding and margin styles from the display tree.
- Mia: On Wednesday we notified Early Adopter members that JMP 18 EA4 is ready for download on My JMP.
- All JMP Staff can access the Early Adopter page on my.jmp.com – you can learn about new features, download the latest EA, participate in usability studies, and more. Note: if you have a SalesForce license you can only access My JMP through SalesForce (click the 9 dots, and search for My in the filter).
- Please see the Early Adopters FAQ for more details, including information on how to invite users to join the EA program and how to view current membership.
- Many improvements are underway in the JMP 18 cycle to improve the new user experience. For a summary of some of the most important changes, with a peek into some improvements under consideration for the JMP 19 cycle, see First 5 JMP 18 Summary.
Technical Support
- Duane: The first of the week (Monday and Wednesday) were a little slow for us in Support, but the last part of the week picked up! The Engagement team is up and running, handling all non-product support inquiries, and we are building processes to handle the different types of cases (sales, training, store, website, My JMP, RPS cases….)
As normal, here are the TS JMP Live reports. There are filters on many of the reports that will allow you to see Store or Training issues (Product = JMP Store or JMP Training) already, but I am planning on incorporating an additional filter variable for the queues (Tech Support and Engagement), but haven’t had the time to add it yet. With this filter, one can get a better sense of each group. Also, here’s the link to the Jira filter showing the tickets reported by TS for the last 14 days.
Development Operations
- Jim: Helped Susan Conaghan replace TOTD with Quick Start files in Perforce. Worked with Drew and Anisa to set up a 17.2 integration process for late Jira updates. Reinstall Teradata ODBC driver for Windows Server 2016 failing UTs/ AWS AMI/Instance work for localized UT Baseline runs. Reported new ASAN and assertion failure Jiras.
- Myron: mostly what I worked on this week was JMPTOOL-877: testing changes to remove PII from 17.1, 18.0 EA1, and 18.0 EA2 and regular systems maintenance
Documentation
- Susan: Finished generating 17.2 JMP Live/Public localized help. Updating Confluence page for how to create the JMP Live/Public help. Cleaning up JMP Live/Public files in Perforce. Moved Quick Start tips into dedicated folder in Perforce. Passed the Tip of the Day files over to Ruth.
- Devon: Researched and documented an error (and how to fix it) that comes up in our production scripts, finalized 17.2 release notes for my books, continued work on a proposal for new documentation software.
- Qiana: Created and updated sample data tables for JMP 18.0. Worked on the New Feature page for the sample data changes and deprecation effort. Worked on the Quick Start project. Assisted Susan with the generation of the L10N JMP Live Help for 17.2. Updated the “Learn About JMP” chapter of the doc.
System/Host Testing-Cary
- Audrey: Jira admin stuff, reviewed a few Tabulate issues, reviewed items that are linked to the JMP Community wish list.
- Nick H: Working on a scriptable and repeatable way to test Templates for platform messages across all platforms with template support using the preexisting examples from the scripting index. These examples are not perfect nor consistent so there is plenty of changes/cleanup to do. This work along with EA4 tracks has already surfaced a couple of bugs. Julian has also created a location for Template feedback from EA tracks in confluence. Found and fixed a scripting index example for Filter Each. Starting work on a JSL file to make rebaselining the testSearch tests an automated process which should be quicker/easier.
- Mike M: Major updates to DOEClassical Sikuli test to exercise new Factor/Response Surface dialog (thanks Jacob Rhyne). Updating Sikuli curation script to add info about completed scenarios. Jira opened and EA4 feedback from Jordan Hiller for a Columns Mgr Data Dictionary crash.
System/Host Testing-Beijing
[WEBJMP-6892] Use Labeled Side Rail Item site-wide. (4) DONE: Regression Testing for JMP 17.2, no issue found.
- Mike Wu: (1) JMP 17.2&18.0 bugs regression testing. (2) Investigation on the unit tests DNCs issue on AWS Windows server 2016, and provided test result feedback to Shannon - JMPTEST-866, these DNCs should be related to the Tereadata database on quasi server hits some intermittent access issue, entered service-now ticket for this issue: Click here to view INC0890013. (3) Technical support issue investigation and provided feedback for case number: 00044095, added comment of the customer feedback in the bug JMPHTML-2193 to developer. (4) JMP C 17.2 I18N Testing Round 2, checked with 07/02 installer, the “Findings Mean Change from Baseline Tables” report was unblocked and testing passed for this report. (5) Renewed sas licenses for both SAS 9.3 and 9.4 on jmpdev2
- Kimi(Yu) Wang: (1) New Feature testing for Python: [JMP-17342] Remove the method jmp.curRowCount() and added jmp.currentDt() – Done. (2) JMP 17.2 Regression Testing. (3) JMP C 17.2 I18N Testing - Round2. (4) Jenkins: Optimization: "Identify Yourself" in AWS machines and BJVM, details refer to JMPTESTBJ-2484 . (5) Bug verification.
- Da Zhang: (1) JMP C 17.2 I18N Testing Round2 - week 4 validation. (2) OLE test failures fix. (3) JMP 17.2 regression testing – DONE. (4) Adding new tests for Text Explorer. (5) Bug verification.
- Nala: (1) JMP Live: Testing [WEBJMP-5390] Use dynamic breadcrumbs on report post. download audit log issue. (2) JMP 17.2 regression testing. (3) JMPC 17.2 I18N testing R2 W4 validation. (4) Q2 Conversations. (5) Create ‘pseudo French Nicardipine’ data according to Wenjun’s request.
