Welcome to the JMP Development Update for September 15, 2023!
JMP 17.2 full installers are due to be released by SAS around the middle of next week! The doc team has published the JMP Help in Japanese for testing and is working towards finalizing the Help in Simplified Chinese as well. This is the first time localized JMP Help has been produced completely by the team here in Cary, and I appreciate all the work they did to make this happen! Tech support has been receiving crash and bug reports from customers who are already using 17.2 and working with development to diagnose issues and track them in Jira. Updaters have been available for a few weeks on support.sas.com and international customers can now get 17.2 in the online store.
We are heading towards JMP 18.0 EA6 freeze on 10/03/23. As usual, if you’re working on late features, please keep your section on the JMP 18 Late Features page and associated Jira issues up to date to help downstream teams track your progress. If you have updates to share with EA6 customers, please update the Motivation and Summary sections of your individual feature pages.
I have entered JMP 19 branching-related issues for my team under the JMPTOOL-951 epic. The new branch is planned to be open right around the time we reach our Code Review period near the end of JMP 18.0 (11/8/23). Please feel free to link other Jira issues tracking branching-related projects to JMPTOOL-951 by specifying this issueID in the Epic Link field in child issues you want to add.
Thanks very much to Paul Nelson for offering to present progress on JMP 18 Python changes made since his last demo in the spring. If you missed the meeting, you can find a recording here. Customers using the current JMP Python integration will doubtless appreciate the many improvements coming along soon! Paul and tester Kimi(Yu) Wang have been hard at work polishing this new functionality in preparation for the next iteration in EA6.
We have numerous other dev meetings on the schedule for the coming months. If you want to present at a future session, please sign up on the JMP Dev Volunteer page in Confluence. I noticed some new future speakers added their names during the last meeting, so thanks very much!
Tonya Mauldin continues to coordinate the distribution and response to beta tracks and shares this week’s beta/crash report case details below:
Beta/Crash report for the week of 9/15/23 | JMP Live (sas.com)
And finally, thanks to Audrey Shull for sharing this Jira Tip of the Week!
If you use Jira filters a lot, you may have noticed that the number of Status values has increased. This is because we have a lot of different teams using Jira, and every group’s unique status values can appear. The best way to limit this is to first filter on Project. For example, if you choose Project = JMP, the Status list will then be restricted to valid statuses in the JMP project. I have a bookmark saved to an initial search page that already has my preferred projects selected, and it saves me a few clicks to start there.
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
Life Sciences
- Russ Wolfinger attended the Massive Analysis and QC (MAQC) meeting in Finland this week. The life sciences group has had a long association with this group of scientists interested in analysis of high-dimensional genomics and other scientific data sources. As you can see below, JMP sponsored a travel award for early-career scientists for this event.
Statistics
- John Sall: In Design Space Profiler, "Reset Factor Space" now allows you to set the number of grid points; 21 is the default. (JMP-18339) In Principal Components, the new methods now handle missing values, at least in the estimation phase. (JMP-18336) For Joseph and Easy DOE, worked on the fitting routines used in Easy DOE to handle potentially supersaturated cases.
- Annie: Continued fixing issues with the Short Run Control charts in CCB and have been working on my presentation on Short Run charts for next week’s dev meeting.
Stat Documentation
- Karen: Working on the CSALT chapter, the use of the icon files in the documentation (rather than using screen shots of icons), and miscellaneous UI string work with developers.
- Michael C: String updates in some DOE platforms; started updating screenshots for some UI changes in Fit Model and other platforms.
Stat Testing
- Mark: Preparing a lightning talk for the roadmap panel about DOE and Reliability for JMP Discovery Summit Americas. Studying the literature about CSALT designs for testing. Attended the online JMP Discovery Summit. Studying the recorded tours of codebase. Answered questions in JMP Community.
- Jacob: Testing CSALT Design. Testing updates to the Easy DOE Analyze tab. Designing a usability study for Easy DOE with Mark, Ryan, and Joseph.
- Tonya: Cleaning up CCB Jiras and testing short run control charts and capability analysis with phases.
Technical Support
- Duane: This week, TS participated in the “Meet the Experts” rooms for the Online Discovery (as many did) and we had 3-4 actual visitors wanting to talk to us. Additionally, some of us met with Falco and John J to learn more about the upcoming JMP Store enhancements. We continue to work with our customers, providing the support they deserve! 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.
- Weekly Case Volume for Support:
- All Engagement Team Cases for 2023:
- Engagement Team Cases for the Last Week:
Development Operations
- Bob: Fixed Subscription to be 17.2 in non-US Store. Created this Installer Validation page in Confluence and looking for feedback. Connected to SalesForce for TS issues related to installers. Met with JMP Legal and SAS R&D reps to discuss future collaborations. All is still OK to use SAS R&D when needed. Explained that JMP will no longer need to use SAS Release Engineering but needs to still be able to use SAS order processing until My JMP is ready. The final SAS signoff date for 17.2 has passed. Shipping through SAS order processing will begin soon on Sept 20.
- Shannon: Investigated various DNCs and timeouts in the JMP UT streams (JMPTEST-586). Thanks very much to everyone for helping enter and resolve JMP bugs that have been triggering several of these failures or modify tests as needed to permit them to run to completion. Investigated a few crashes, discussed telemetry with Sarah Sylvestre, and met with DevOps team members about ongoing projects and progress on 2023 goals.
- Melanie: Ran stringbot on Builtins for localization testing. Attended JMP Discovery Summit Americas Online. Helped diagnose problems with producing JMP Help 17.2 Japanese.
- Myron: Finalizing sample data processing (JMPTOOL-505). Cleaned up some telemetry data (JMPTOOL-979). Jirabot updates (JMPTOOL-984, JMPTOOL-980, JMPTOOL-981).
- Jim: Took OS updates on multiple mac testing machines; Reported new and verified fixed assertion failures in JMP 18; Perforce support.
Localization
- Allison: P4 Training with Jim and Introduction to memoQ training. Added draft of goals in Workday; learning about localization release cycle and projects.
- Howard: Demo of memoQ localization dashboard for the localization team. Query system updates and development work for other automation projects.
- Krzysztof: Produced test project to localize Platform Presets/getting feedback from Evan. Meeting scheduled with Ruth Hummel to discuss how Education can leverage our Google AutoML MT engine. Provided overview of memoQ to Allison, worked with Sandy and Howard on automation projects and worked on localization projects for keycloak and Simplified Chinese portable UI.
- Sandy: Testing validation scripts.
- Sohail: Working on automation of terminology harvesting to create a localization term bank.
- Trish: Coordinating with JMP Legal regarding localization of JMP Universal Terms and JMP Subscription Agreement. Training sessions with Allison. Discussions related to localization of Torch add-in. Answered translator queries and processed work orders and invoices. Q3 goals discussions.
Documentation
- Qiana: Assisted with 17.2 JA JMP Help and JitBit tooling for Quick Start. Communicated with Landra about the New Features page and Documentation’s involvement. Worked with SAS to update the R&D Connect with What's New for JMP 17.2. Began investigating the use of Perforce labeling as an alternative to Git. Worked on sample data Jiras. Performed project planning and coordination.
- Susan C: Working with tech support to try and get Mac working. Tried a free, browser-based screen recorder from Jitbit to capture Windows Quick Start steps for localization and it seems to work, yay! Incorporated feedback from Chris B into the Working Smarter slides. Working on Jiras (New Features updates, reset script in Jenkins, Working Smarter) and updates to JMP Live help.
- Devon: Troubleshooting and finally publishing JMP 17.2 JA Help. Started building JMP 17.2 ZH Help. Going through the JMP Scripting Guide in preparation to work on New Feature documentation.
System/Host Testing-Cary
- Mandy: Worked on a progress bar issue from John Sall (JMP-18317). Received 2 TS tracks from user with crash on Preferences but will need their script on Mac (JMP-18427). Tracked down a crash Julian crash had this week, using Xcode and then going back in JMPRUNNER to see it was introduced last summer (JMP-18391). Also, opened a timing-related Recode workflow recording issue that Julian found (JMP-18396).Busy week for tracking this stuff down, with building JMP and also using JMPRUNNER to figure out when it broke – but like a mystery hunt!
- Nick H: Finished up the work for adding timing information to the JSL Unit Test GUI so now users will have an estimation of how long tests will take to run before running them. The feature can use either local timing data or the timing data from nightly runs. The feature is not live yet but will be shortly, along with a Confluence page. Filed a few bugs and continued testing efforts for Presets along with other verifications.
- Hunter: Tested the SAS Download Manager 3.0 on four Mac versions for the SAS 9 deployment team, responded to JMP 18 EA 5 track and opened JIRA issue for the reported dark mode problem, JIRA verifications, and installed the Sonoma 14.0 Release Candidate 23A339 on the host testing Macs in the lab.
- Anna: Writing tests for OPEN Jiras. Testing Transform columns w/Dan’s new Group platform. Testing columns with images in various roles in GB. Reported issues with violin plots in HTML5/JMP Live. Verifying fix issues.
- Mike M: Worked with Jianfeng to isolate a Fit Special() bug from image diff results. Started testing JMP Help for JA, delivered 9/15 (looking good so far). Working to verify my Jiras. Opened a couple Jiras for Columns Manager ease of use.
- Audrey: Debugging script issues for Mac install scripts, Jira admin work, debugging one of our Jenkins JSL Scripts (and found a regression bug that’s already been fixed).
System/Host Testing-Beijing
- Beijing Team:
- Eric(Nai) Wang: (1) Testing new feature “folder level access”, Test the permission changes when moving folder intra space, add Jest tests, WEBJMP-7464. Test new GraphQL query ‘willFolderMoveImpactPermissions’, WEBJMP-7484. Add integration tests for above Jiras. Testing set up folder permissions UI (WEBJMP-7036). (2) Working on JMP Live 18.0 scenario testing. (3) Bug verification.
- Da Li: (1) TS: 00053060 investigation and create bug (JMP-18337) Create Excel Workbook() fails to overwrite an existing Excel file - Jira (atlassian.net). (2) Verify and close 11 bugs. (3) Migration failure investigation and create 1 critical bug (WEBJMP-7539: Migration failed because some notification type codes could not found in the database). (4) In Progress: Feature testing WEBJMP-7494] Use our own translation function for Vuetify's generic strings). (5) JMPC reports which are published to JMP Live validation automation trying and writing using Playwright, first version merged to scndaz / jmp_live_tests / Pull Request #1: DaliTest — Bitbucket
- Nan Wu: (1) JMP desktop 18.0 bugs regression testing, mainly on the HTML5 profiler testing. (2) Restored the Teradata related testing data to the new server that DBA provided “vatcop1.unx.sas.com server” and completed the sanity testing for the Teradata related testing. (3) Created JMPTOOL-983 to ask help from Jim for help upgrading the ODBC drivers for the JMP 18.0 nightly run UT lab machines, and discussed with Jim on the issues he met when installing DB2 ODBC driver. (4) Completed the 3rd party software testing for the ODBC drivers upgrading (JMPTESTBJ-1799). (5) Investigation on the unit tests DNC issues from Shannon and provided feedback (JMPTEST-1030, JMPTEST-871).
- Da Zhang: (1) Bug verifications on components transferred from Eric Wang. (2) Scenario based testing – week 3. (3) Text Explorer Filter issues: Case Number 00052936
- Nala: (1) JMP Live 18 scenario-based testing - in progress. (2) JMP Live 18 I18N testing 4/6 - Done. (3) TS report 00051830 - Done (a EA5 feedback, a customer has reported encountering issues when installing, uninstalling, or listing Python packages
Data Discovery
- Dave B: Added a data import preference to prevent JMP from stripping leading zeros, cleaning up some issues I noticed in RangeSliderDisplay, and fixed a problem with html image comparisons – the jsl source was not correctly added to the difference report (thanks to Mike M for noticing this).
- Dan S: Bug fixes in Column Switcher and Platform Presets. Changed a number of display box callbacks to make the run script(0|1) option behave consistently. More Robust Dispatch work in support of Column Switcher/Presets.
- Morgan: Set up a JMP Notebook development branch and got a test build working and started working on handling multiple Formula Depots more effectively.
- Xan: Getting help from Laura L on supporting linear constraints in Profiler and from Laura C-S for SEM diagram work.
DOE
- Caleb: Participated in JMP Discovery Online. We had a lot of people come to the DOE and Reliability section of Meet the Developers on Wednesday! Glad to see so much interest! Also working through JIRA tickets based on feedback on CSALT, revising a paper presentation for RAMS 2024 and writing up an analysis for another WildTrack project with Sky.
- Peng: Making changes to Fatigue Model platform based on feedback from Bill Meeker.
Host
- Brian C: We welcome Kristen Slappey and Chris Hesser who both start next Tuesday. Kristen will work on a JMP App Store concept, while Chris will work on data connectors.
- Paul N: Continued Python Integration work:
- Python Scripting index
- Python presentation #2.
- JMP-18416 – Discovered conflict with Python Integration and Python Generate Code(). The generated python code created code with an ‘import jmp_score as jmp’. Which conflicts with the JMP Python built-in jmp package. Solution was to change the generated code so it’s now ‘import jmp_score’. And all function references jmp.some_function() to jmp_score.some_function().
- John Schroedl: Continuing policy work: Added JSL support for testing and dev needs. Created Epic to organize remaining tasks such as specific policies. Starting dev testing in a domain environment with help from Josh LoPresti. Removed code which migrated SAS metadata server info from JMP 17 dirs into 18. Icon work. Visual Studio support.
- Michael H: Working on presentation for JMP Discovery Summit keynote. Working with John Schroedl on Group Policy settings.
Interactive HTML
- John Powell: Attended talks and Meet the Experts at Discovery Summit Americas online. Contributed to documents for our end of sprint review. Added JMP Live Column Switchers support for the new Group Platform (JMPHTML-2067). Rendered CellPlotBox static when plot types other than Color Map are used (JMPHTML-2346 ). Implement support for sorted Cell Plot Box (JMPHTML-2288). Started using the new JMP Live GET Graphlet API implemented by Adrianna Beck for graphlet support on JMP Live (JMPHTML-1287). Provided Dr. Anderson Mayfield with the resolution and work around for the issue he encountered with JMP 18 EA5 (JMPHTML-2313).
- Michael Senoyuit: Finished JMPHTML-2058 and JMPHTML-2057 – FontFamily support in hover and pinned tooltips, Attended JMP Discovery, worked on end of sprint documentation.
- Mike Stickles: Worked on implementing labels for line segments (JMPHTML-1419). Completed to about 75%.
Note from Shannon
