Welcome to the JMP Development Update for August 25, 2023!
With the signoff of 17.2 last week, many JMP 17.2 deliverables are now available! Updaters are posted to support.sas.com for existing users who installed earlier 17.X versions, installers are available for download in MyJMP for new customers of our JMP first systems, and subscription-based products have been deployed to the JMP and SAS stores. JMP and JMP Pro trial installers and software for internal use are now also up to date. SAS will release full installers for 17.2 products for existing customers in the SAS ship event planned on or around September 19. Work is ongoing to finalize various localized help resources for 17.2.
If you are still working on features that are critical to ship in JMP 18.0, please review the content on the Late features page in Confluence. Jira issue links in the Late Features page will automatically reflect their current status, and I have been using that information to move items into sections on the page indicating completed, ongoing and deferred work. Several items added to Late Features at Feature Freeze a month ago have since been marked Test Ready. There are still some big ticket items in progress and all ongoing feature work should be represented on that page. If you are aware of ongoing work that isn’t on this page, please add it ASAP and use the template to assess its impact.
Please remember that as we move farther past feature freeze, even UI changes that seem relatively minor can impact ongoing JMP 18 testing, writing and translation efforts. For example, late UI changes may prevent doc teams from proceeding with their work or necessitate repeated rounds of screenshot updates. Please be mindful of the downstream impact that even small UI changes can have at this time and seek to minimize such changes or communicate them to impacted teams when they are necessary.
Thanks to Audrey Shull for sharing that JMP QA teams have now signed off on JMP 18 EA5! Customers will be notified of its availability on Monday. Thank you to everyone who was involved in creating this release and all the tasks necessary to get it ready for customers. We only have a few remaining EA releases in this cycle. Please continue to track any feature updates on your individual feature pages as we prepare for EA6 planned to freeze on 10/3/23.
Thanks to members of the product marketing and sales teams for presenting at yesterday’s JMP Dev meeting! If you missed the meeting, you can find the recording here in Sharepoint. The JMP customer workflow assessment tool and survey results generated quite a lot of discussion. Thanks to everyone for participating by asking and answering questions and offering ideas about future directions!
Thanks also to Tonya Mauldin for sharing this week’s beta/crash cases with crashes selected!
Beta/crash cases for the week of 8/25/23 | JMP Live (sas.com)
Also shown below is a treemap showing beta case topics for combined data from EA1-EA4. You can visit the JMP Live report Tonya Mauldin | JMP Live (sas.com) to see many additional reports (also including data filters).
General Announcements
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Important Upcoming Dates
- JMP 18 and JMP Clinical 18 EA6 – 10/3/23
- JMP 18 Sample Data Freeze – 10/18/23
- JMP 18 Code Review – 11/08/2023
- JMP 18 and JMP Clinical 18 EA7 – 12/8/23
- Please visit Confluence for a full list of JMP 17 and JMP 18 dates.
JMP Development Updates
Interactive HTML
- John Powell: Worked on Interactive HTML’s roadmap with Praveena and Dieter. Disabled graphs with Nested Axis and Order By just for segments that don’t support it (JMPHTML-2150). Investigated reason for a disabled local data filter in a customer’s dashboard on JMP Public. It was placed in a selection filter which is not supported by Interactive HTML (JMPHTML-2313). Created stories in support of displaying Graphlets on JMP Live (WEBJMP-7458, JMP-18090, JMP-18091). Created a bug for selection of heatmaps with fill patterns in Selected Darker mode (JMP-18114). Implemented support for fill patterns in heatmaps (JMPHTML-2250).
JMP Live
- Aurora: Working on GDPR compliance. Found and stopped all instances where we wrote user personally identifiable information (PII) to the audit log. Implemented removal of PII from the user record in the database.
- Michael G: Lots of JMP Live bug fixing as features slow down. Starting to look into Discovery talk prep.
Statistics
- Elizabeth: Bug fixing and triage. Making a preliminary list of items for 19 (it feels so early!) as I’m going through the triage list.
- Annie: Fixing bugs related to Short Run Control Charts.
Stat Documentation
- Karen: Started working on the new CSALT DOE chapter.
Stat Testing
- Jacob: Verifying Jira tickets for Make Validation Column and DOE. Working on improving speed of some Easy DOE unit tests. Testing CSALT Design. Reading a paper Caleb shared and investigating ALTopt R package to use for oracle designs.
- Mark: Integrated a verification for every factor plot in every case of Easy DOE generated by a 34-run covering array (1,216) in the unit test script for the Data Entry tab of Easy DOE.
- Tonya: Working on beta reporting and testing short run control charts and capability analysis with phases in CCB.
Product Management and Product Marketing
- Kaylee: This month the Product Marketing team organized two of the first capability sessions for the Sales Enablement Training Series this year. Peter Polito kicked off the month with a training on Data Access, discussing the fundamentals of this capability and how sales teams can better position JMP when discussing accessing data. Phil Kay followed with a training on Design of Experiments where he showed that DOE is all about understanding how to control the process to consistently meet or exceed customer requirements. Both sessions were interactive and well-received, and provided teams with the right resources and knowledge for future customer interactions. You can find more information (including recordings) on these trainings and others in the training series schedule within the Sales Enablement Library.
Technical Support and JMP Engagement
- Wendy: This week the Support teams participated in user acceptance testing (UAT) for Store 2.1, which went live on Wednesday. Additionally, Dahlia Watkins and I along with Stan Koprowski and Ryan Gilmore are developing updates to the Service Cloud Voice flows and building a list of possible future enhancements. Case volume is steady.
- Here are the TS JMP Live reports and the link to the Jira filter showing the tickets reported by TS for the last 14 days.
Development Operations
- Jim: Reported new ASAN/assertion failure issues and verified fixed ones. Met with Audrey to discuss the daily UT plan for the Clinical test scripts. Rebuilt JMP EA installer for mac OS (thanks Michael Hecht!) due to a notarization issue. Applied operating system updates to many of the daily mac OS UT machines.
- Myron: Worked on creating a JiraBot UI (JMPTOOL-939) and random updates like JMPTOOL-938 (Stringbot confluence links) and JMPTOOL-941, JMPTOOL-934, JMPTOOL-936 (JiraBot owner updates).
Documentation
- Devon: Finalized initial round of comment review and second draft of proposal to switch documentation over to Oxygen (now open to all!), worked on JMP-17435: String Col Edit Box, Set Width Message not documented in Scripting Guide or JSL Syntax Reference, more work on Platform Presets chapter, STIPS training, looking at GitKraken as a tool for doc handoff between Localization and Documentation.
- Susan C: Finished up string UI reviews through August 19. Assisted with help issues. Moved all JMP Live images and scripts into categorized folders in Perforce. Recapturing Quick Start animated gifs using LICEcap. Planning for JMP Live/Public 18.0 deliverables.
- Qiana: Generated the localized DJ. Read DITA For Small Technical Documentation Teams (oxygenxml.com). Reverted the JMP 18 JMP.book file to the original version, updated the book, generated the Help, and pushed it to PROD. Project planning.
- Chris B: Still working on getting the JA and ZH help built. Did some Mac testing for the Quick Start effort.
System/Host Testing-Cary
- Mandy: Worked on, completed, practiced and recorded my Workflow Builder presentation for Discovery Summit Americas. Worked through workflow fixes, and found a few new bugs. Answered TS tracks and reported a few issues. Also did a lot of Data Step fixes for JIRA’s too. Downloaded and tested the EA5 on Mac and Windows.
- Hunter: Finished JMP 18 EA 5 testing, opened a couple of projects defects, tested a developer build on Mac from Michael for a context click problem in JMP-17197, and installed Sonoma 14.0 Dev. Beta 6 on the Apple Silicon and Intel host testing Macs in the lab to confirm the sticky titles bug remains fixed.
- Mike M: Working through verifications, mostly with JMP Help and localization issues. Also verified a couple of Printing Jiras. Image diffs kept me busy as well.
Web Testing – Cary
- Josh L: JMP Live Story testing (AD Sync, Folder Level Access, and Misc). Troubleshooting various issues around ssl certificates. Working with Bryan Boone and Chris Humphrey on ways to detect a problem with ssl certificates. Rewrote my JMP / JMP Live silent installation scripts is powershell. So far servers are installing faster and more reliably. I have started looking in other JMP Live Testers queues to Jira’s in test ready. Trying to get our count down.
- Hui: Investigated a CRP reported by Coral reef researcher Anderson Mayfield when using JMP Live where the data filter comes out as a static image. Thanks to John Powell for help finding the reason! Studied the customized bin dialog on JMP desktop to look for HTML5 related issues and put them into feature requests. Met with Steve on interactive HTML5 automation needs.
System/Host Testing-Beijing
- Beijing Team:
- Eric(Nai) Wang: (1) Refactor JMP Live JSL tests since “folder level access””, JMPTESTBJ-2654. Update common functions to support new GraphQL APIs. Update the tests under “JMPLiveJSL”, “EndToEnd”, "VariousReports", "Security" and "Stress". Compatibility tests need more investigation since publishing from 17.x should use old APIs. (2) Testing new feature “folder level access” (JMPTESTBJ-2574). Testing protections against improper folder level access (WEBJMP-7039). (3) Complete on JMP 18 EA 5 testing.
- Da Li: (1) TS: 00050205 - send back mail asking for more info. (2) DONE: JMP 18.0 3rd party software regression testing round 1/2. (3) DONE: JMP 18.0 EA 5 testing. (4) Beijing Jenkins UT failure investigation and fix on mac Ventura. (5) JMP Live 18.0: migration UT cases candidates selection (JMPTESTBJ-2651) . (6) Prepare to write migration Jest UT cases jmp-live / jmp_live / Branch scndli-migration-jest-ut-writing — Bitbucket. (7) Verify bug, add Jest UT accordingly.
- Nan Wu: (1) JMP 18.0 3rd party software testing for ODBC drivers on both Windows and Mac. (2) JMP 18.0 EA 5 testing (JMPTESTBJ-2650). (3) Technical support issue case number 00050802 investigation and entered a bug for this issue. (4) JMP Live 18.0 I18N testing summary of round 3/6 - DONE
- Kimi (Yu) Wang: (1) JMP 18.0 NF – Python – In progress. Create a Jira to track EA5, and update New Features/Fixed Bugs/Removal and Known Issues in description; for details refer to JMP-18024. Dealing with E-mails of Paul. New sub features testing/bug verification. Write UT scripts. (2) JMP 18.0 EA5 Testing, refer to (JMPTESTBJ-2650) – In progress. (3) install python modules for UT machines – In progress. (4) Bug verification. (5) Jenkins related work.
- Da Zhang: (1) Bug verification. (2) Fixing failures/adding new tests for JMeter load tests. (3) Adding new HAT tests for HTML5. (4) Testing on New Sample Index – DONE. (5) JMP 18.0 EA5 installer testing on macOS – DONE
- Nala: (1) DONE: JMP 18.0 3rd party software regression testing. (2) Done: JMP 18.0 EA5 installer testing. (3) Bug verification. (4) Work with Audrey to review tester responsibilities for Beijing team. Discuss with everyone in Beijing team about their responsibilities Testing Responsibilities Whiteboard. (5) Prepare JMP Clinical testing. Proposed testing timeline for JMPC testing (Beijing team's Testing Timeline). Created a page to list all JMP Clinical reports and highlight new reports in JMPC 18 (JMP Clinical Reports List (with Chinese Name)).
Data Discovery
- Evan: Working with Dan Schikore on changes to graphCompose to support Column-Robust Report Customizations and Platform Presets. Improvements to jslmatch. Refining Python in Scripting Index prototype code. Created Python unittest to JSL Unit Test adapter proof-of-concept. Improving column units usage.
- Dave B: Fixing a few more minor print preview bugs and a fill pattern clipping bug. Mike M noticed html image diffs had gotten stuck on 8/17 so I am going to see if I can re-run those and add a check to my monitoring program so we notice sooner next time.
- Dan S: Platform Presets - work on robust dispatch, removing axis ref lines, and UI changes for disables preset sources. Print preview fix for repeated measuring. Fixed App Builder crash.
- Xan: DisplayScaleClient support for more scales; added hover support to Profiler overlaid interactions.
DOE
- Caleb: Fixed a few bugs in Sample Size Explorers and CSALT and recorded my paper and poster presentations for Discovery Americas Online. I also started packing up boxes in my office for the transition to remote work.
- Peng: Continuing research with Bill on fatigue data analysis, change the internal parameterization for Nishijima model again for better numerical behavior. Start writing a documentation draft for the Fatigue Model platform.
- Ryan L: Finished Discovery presentation, attended Q&A for Part I of “Smarter Innovation with Design of Experiments” that featured a recording from Brad.
Host
- Michael H: Investigated the feasibility of requiring Xcode 14.3 for development, to support some new C++20 language features. Xcode 14.3 requires macOS Ventura, which doesn’t run on some Mac hardware. We are therefore delaying adoption of Xcode 14.3, and will be conducting a survey to determine what Mac hardware, running what macOS versions, are currently in use. Fixed a long-standing Mac issue with right-click in a modal dialog being reported to portable as a left-click followed by a right-click. Participated in Visual Styling team led by Bryan Fricke.
- Paul N: Python Integration work continues - writing sample files and making sure EA5 features are well documented. Wrote a sample script directly creating a JMP data table from a parquet file. Fixing bugs when accepting ‘None’ as missing value from Python and issues with list check. Fixed crash on exit if pyarrow was loaded for future EA6.
- John Schroedl: Continuing work on policy support. Discussions related to possible JMP 19 change to sticky title drawing. Reported issue with table update and transform cols. Toolbar and icon updates. More visual design discussions. Discussions related to Microsoft announcement of adding Python support to Excel.
Note from Shannon
Hi all, hope you all stay cool this weekend! It’s going to be hot!!!
