Welcome to the JMP Development Update for November 3, 2023!
Thanks to all who have been testing the new authorization mechanism with JMP Pro 18 EA6 and the JMP 18 nightly windows builds! This wide-ranging feature has been truly a team effort. If you have yet not tried an authorized installer for JMP 18 yet, please do try EA6 and report any issues you encounter to jmpbeta@jmp.com. Thanks very much to Jeff Perkinson, Wendy Murphrey and Daniel Powell for helping work through authorization issues encountered by internal and external users!
A reminder that JMP 18 EA7 is planned for 12/8/23. With the Thanksgiving holiday coming this month, we’ll be there before you know it! Please update any motivation and summary sections on feature pages with important fix details that you’d like to share with customers and note that they’re for EA7.
Thanks very much to the JMP Live team for presenting on their JMP 18 additions at yesterday’s JMP Dev meeting! Team leader Eric Hill kicked off the presentation and shared the stage with numerous JMP Live developers as they presented JMP 18 improvements. If you missed the meeting, you can find a recording here.
Speaking of recordings, if you were not at JMP Discovery Summit in Indian Wells, CA, you’ll be glad to know that you can find the Angling, Wrangling, and Untangling Data keynote here on the JMP Community! This presentation features John Sall, Michael Hecht, Michael Goff, Andrea Coombs, and Julian Parris.
Thanks to Tonya Mauldin for creating these combined beta reports for EA1 through EA5! Two graphs are below but many more graphs can be seen on this JMP Live page. Please note that all SAS/JMP employees were excluded from the two graphs below.
This treemap of subtopic summarizes the areas of interest from Salesforce EA cases.
This heatmap of contact name vs EA version helps us see whether customers are using and submitting feedback for more than 1 EA.
Tonya Mauldin | JMP Live (sas.com) – JMP Live link for all combined reports for EA1 through EA5.
Also, here’s a graph of beta feedback from 10/13/23 through today with crashes selected.
JMP Beta Report - Distributions for 10/13/23 through 11/3/23 | JMP Live (sas.com)
General Announcements
- Salvation Army Angel Tree: The Women’s Initiatives Network (WIN) will organize this year’s Salvation Army Angel Tree project, and 400 angels need support. If you are interested in making a child’s holiday merry and bright, please fill out this form to request an angel(s). Angel Tree gift drop off will be one day only: Giving Tuesday (Nov. 28) from 8 a.m. until 3 p.m. at the loading dock between LX and LW. For more info, see this Inside SAS article. You can contact Judi Rourke with any additional questions.
Important Upcoming Dates
- JMP 18 Code Review – 11/08/2023
- JMP 18 and JMP Clinical 18 EA7 – 12/8/23
- JMP 19 Branch Creation – 12/20/23
- JMP 18 Code Freeze – 1/16/24
- Please visit Confluence for a full list of JMP 18 dates.
JMP Development Updates
Product Management and Product Marketing
- Kaylee: On October 30th there was a Sales and Marketing Training for JMP 18 put together for the Sales Enablement Training Series. The Product Management team took time to go through some of the major features that were coming in JMP 18 and the key benefits, target audiences, and keywords to listen for. On November 3rd there was another Sales Enablement Training on the License Authorization process that is coming for JMP 18. Jeff Perkinson took the time to walk through what the new process looks like, and then held a Q&A session after the presentation. You can find more information (including recordings) on these trainings in the training series schedule within the Sales Enablement Library.
Stat Testing
- Tonya: Working on beta feedback. I have had lots of email about authorization issues and out of office/undeliverable emails. Also testing short run control charts, organizing CCB Jira tickets using labels, and verifying Jiras.
Technical Support
- Duane: Wendy’s team has been dealing with authorization and My JMP issues this week (as you already know!). Here is a statement she shared with me earlier that is directed towards JMP employees:
JMP employees with Salesforce logins are to access the downloads from the 9 dot menu and type My JMP in the search. This will take you to My JMP.
As for using JMP 18 EA6 and beyond, we are still working on that for staff with Salesforce licenses. I'm being told that we will be moving to SSO very soon.
If you are unable to use the non-Authorized version of the EA6 and since we do not yet have a specific date for SSO, you can go to jmp.com/earlyadopter and register a personal email address. Once you are accepted into the program, you will be able to download, install, and authorize using your personal email address.
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.
Case Volume by week:
Case Topics for Engagement queue, total:
Case Topics for Engagement queue, last week:
Development Operations
- Jim: Worked on JMPTOOL-983, and have one more ODBC driver to install on one more AMI. Began working on configuring JMP 19 build machines (JMPTOOL-961). Took numerous system and software updates, some to bring the machines in to SAS compliance. Notified several testers of JSL script failures due to deprecated Crime and CrimeData data tables. Fixed JMP-19254 for the mac OS JMP Pro 18 EA6 installer. Working with Drew and Michael in ongoing attempts to build JMP Clinical 18 EA6 installer for mac OS. Performed bug verification.
- Melanie: Validated that the new Sample Data jobs ran correctly for the 18.0 Sample Data handoff on Monday. Began documenting these jobs in Confluence. Updated and tested new auto-integration jobs for Quick Start (thanks to Nick Ruva for his help!). Worked through some new JSL Conflicts (thanks to Evan McCorkle for his assistance!). Helped localization with updated Deployment Guide files for 17.2. A lot of catching up with Jiras after vacationing in sunny and warm Texas.
Localization
- Allison: Validated Sample Data project and delivered to translation teams; training classes; reviewing localization processes and confluence pages.
- Howard: Continued work on database; coordinating with Sandy on validations; bug fixes for tooling projects.
- Krzysztof: Krzysztof: Worked on L10N automation (template enhancements, validations of UI files), finished STIPS German MT translation and review. Updated DG 17.2 book translations. Worked on filter for DIAT files (Oxygen source for Books) to handle equations better. Preparing the presentation of TM search and MT translation web interfaces on the 30th of November.
- Sandy: Continued work to validate word counts; start to document JMP Live localization validations.
- Sohail: Working on enhancing the TM search/edit interface. Working on MT web interface for JMP.
- Trish: Worked on torchDeepLearning.cpp to replace StringIDs with quoted string literals; triaged translation queries; localization schedules.
Documentation
- Qiana: Continued sample data deprecation work. Made updates to the JMP 17.2 DG. Met with Jeff team to discuss JMP 18 doc. Communicated with Aaron about considerations for the doc in AEM and AWS.
- Susan C: Working on updates to JMP Live user/admin/install/publishing help. Finishing up interactive HTML updates to send to test soon. Started a class. Took UK security training.
- ChrisB: Have all equations converted to MathML (and a script to keep doing so). Working on getting Krzysztof the equations that contain translated elements.
- Devon: Made formatting changes to some 17.2 web help in JMP-13626, writing the Python Integration documentation for 18.0.
System/Host Testing-Cary
- Mandy: JMP 18 install testing including evaluating EA 6 again this am on Mac. Worked with Qiana on Crime and CrimeData sample deprecation – checking to see if the replacement tables, State Capitals and SATByYear examples were all good and fixed a test. Working on data table cell edits with David White; Entered several issues with Tables > Stack, Recode dialog UI issues, and Virtual join. Filed a new JIRA for Mac only, where the home window and recent items are now gone – this seems to be related to the new JMP 18 installs.
- Nick H: Working on lots of bug verification for 18.0. In the last couple weeks I have also found several bugs in the Platform Preset dialogs, a number of which have already been fixed by Ernest. Cleaned up some unit tests failures; now I plan to resume and finish up the performance testing I started for “universal Where” in the coming week or so.
- Hunter: Investigated and responded to Early Adopter tracks. Tested several of Jim’s installers for JMP Pro and JMP Clinical for Mac.
- Audrey: Authorization work. EA6 was rebuilt so we are looking at that. Recreating some JMP Live reports.
Web Testing-Cary
- Anna: Testing transforms UI, LDF w/JMP Live, Color & Overlay role legends, error bar color issues. Adding test programs and verifying fixes.
System/Host Testing-Beijing
Data Discovery
- Dan S: Fixed hover labels in By groups with filter on parent table. Updated property panel to use splitter controls for resizing, also fixing issues when a property change throws an error. Fixed a performance issue when JSL class objects are captured in a box callbackscript.
- Morgan: Received SAS authorization for use of Hunspell and started working on implementing a wrapper for spell checking in JMP. I have also been working on host scripting in JMP Notebooks and throwing together my presentation for Dec. 7.
- David Barbour: Fix a couple of different display3d journal bugs, fixed a problem getting selected rows from a filtered table box, fixed a print layout bug, made a first pass at updating image tests to not use sample data crimedata.jmp
- Xan: Graph Builder line legend updates, ruler tool fixes, zkernel precision fixes.
DOE
- Caleb: Continued fixing bugs in CSALT and sample size explorers. I also had a paper accepted to the RAMS conference and helping finish up another paper with Sky and some other co-authors on evidence for a potentially new or hybrid species of dormouse in Jordan.
Host
- John Schroedl: Updated Install Checker tool to accommodate JMP 18 changes including licensing and Group Policy (GPO) detection. Starting on GPO Confluence page to help development understand the purpose and details for how to add and honor policies from C++ code. Suppress diagnostic messages by default in authorization-enabled Debug builds. Host dialog activation fix with a related, more significant, window activation change shelved for early in JMP 19. The timestamp returned by the Build Information() JSL function is now the executable’s last-write timestamp instead compilation time of topEval.cpp.
Interactive HTML
- John Powell:
- Fixed Cell Plot tooltip showing null for column title when using distance matrix (JMPHTML-2221). Fixed incorrect Cell Plot colors when Gradient Colors column property used by rendering static (JMPHTML-2286). Resolved marker tooltip displaying ‘Missing’ when there’s more than one labeled image column (JMPHTML-2118). Updated local data filter’s categorical tooltip to display the full category text when long categories are truncated (JMPHTML-1999). Triaged bugs.
- Met with Praveena, Paul, and Dieter to analyze our Feature Requests. Met with Praveena and Paul to discuss how we collect and communicate user interactions with the JMP Live server.
- Started reviewing candidates for our summer intern position. Prepared for upcoming Crucial Conversations course and Strengths Workshop.
- Paul Spychala: Another week of Profiler work in HTML with Locale work (JMPHTML-2435) and Initial Term Value bugs (JMPHTML-2012, JMPHTML-2420). Also fixed HTML ScaleBox bugs with Cell Plots (JMPHTML-2284).
- Michael Senoyuit: Finished JMPHTML-2419 and JMPHTML-1898. Started working on JMPHTML-2426 - HTML5 extra next line break on fixed tooltip and interactive tooltip.
JMP Live
- Aurora: Improved performance for very deeply nested folders and reports. Presented part of the JMP Live 18.0 Dev Demo. Reviewed some early code for the JMP Marketplace. Prepped for upcoming Whitebox testing.
Statistics
- John Sall:
- In Explore Outliers
- do not make multiple reports of same analysis (JMP-19113)
- support continue when MaxIter is 1 (JMP-19172)
- diagnose degenerate low rank matrix with too small a lambda (JMP-19264)
- In Fit Least Squares
- fix Predictions with continuous random effects (JMP-19129)
- use specified DF for parameter estimate CI's (JMP-16728)
- fix Undo for Box Cox replace-with-transform (JMP-5657)
- In Hierarchical Cluster
- rescale so diamond at extreme right can be dragged (JMP-19052)
- In Process Screening
- support Test Beyond Limit in Range chart (JMP-5174)
- always turn off lower limit in range chart
- make shift lines respond to Shift Graph slider control (JMP-12110)
- larger size "for Selected" charts (JMP-19227)
- In Fit Ordinal and Nominal,
- Laura C-S: Investigated and fixed a few issues with Robust Inference in SEM using a P&G data table. Also fixed a crash with multiple-group analysis when groups have missing data. Investigating a potential bug in the new SEM bootstrap with missing data. Preparing for JMP Dev presentation.
Stat Documentation
- Michael C: Reviewing strings in preparation for final 18.0 string handoff to translators next week; continuing to retake screenshots across multiple platforms/chapters to address platform presets icon being added to the UI.
- Karen: Working on equations in SSE, one-off defects, and helping with DOE strings.
Note from Shannon
Hope you all have a wonderful weekend! And just for the last few bits of Halloween fun - my 12 year old enjoyed this video of YouTube stat Mark Rober and his engineering collaboration with Jimmy Kimmel as they worked to defeat Halloween candy stealers. And I guess this approach is fine, if you only have the one factor… :smiling_face_with_smiling_eyes:
