Welcome to the JMP Development Update for November 17, 2023!
We are currently in Code Review Mode for JMP 18.0. All source code pushes must be reviewed and you should include your reviewer’s name in your change description. We will enter JMP 18 Code Approval mode at the end of the day on 11/22/23. Since we will be out of the office until Monday, 11/27/23, please hold your approval requests until then.
We are planning to freeze for JMP 18 EA7 on 12/8/23. Please update your feature pages to remove outdated content, update the Motivation and Summary section with important fix details, and add scripts and screenshots where needed. Mia mentioned that we don’t have very many EA videos for JMP 18. These videos are used to support internal training, and to help EA members understand how to use new features and interpret the results.
If you’ve not yet recorded a video for your new features or functionality in JMP 18, or if you’ve dramatically changed features that were initially released early in the JMP 18 development cycle, please consider recording a video to be shared with EA7. The deadline for new videos is Monday, Dec 11. See guidelines here, or reach out to Mia if you have any questions.
As a reminder, the JMP 19 branch will be created to match what is in main at the end of the day on 12/20/23. We do not plan to branch 18.1 until JMP 18 Code Freeze on 1/16/23. At that time, we’ll also be creating an 18.0.1 branch. It will be locked by default and is primarily for the purpose of collecting critical security fixes for third party libraries and addressing any showstopper level issues that can’t wait for 18.1.
Thanks very much to Bryan Boone, Neal Siekierski and (relatively) new host group member Chris Hesser for showing off the new JMP 18 data connectors framework in this week’s dev demo! If you missed the meeting, you can find the recording here. This multi-release effort introduces a new mechanism for customers to access various supported data sources with data connector scripts created by JMP developers and to create their own data connectors as well.
Thanks also to Tonya Mauldin for providing the detail of this week’s beta/crash tracks with crashes selected!
Beta/Crash tracks for the week of 11/17/2023 | JMP Live (sas.com)
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 Code Approval – 11/22/2023
- 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
Stat Testing
- Mark: Preparing a presentation of the JMP Lab usability studies for the JMP Development meeting on December 14 with Jacob. Closed Jira tickets for Easy DOE and updated unit test scripts. Studied the scripting of Hover Labels for use in analyzing usability studies. Reviewed the draft of a paper by Bill Woodall for Anne Milley. I answered questions in the JMP Community.
- Jacob: Testing CSALT Design. Verifying Jira tickets for 18.0 and adding unit tests. Preparing presentation on usability study results with Mark.
- Tonya: Working on bug verification, beta reporting, and OSI testing.
Product Management and Product Marketing
- Kaylee: On November 16th, Scott Wise, Nick Vacca, Jerry Fish, Don McCormack, and Jason Wiggins presented a training on the Reliability Analysis capability in JMP. The session covered the fundamentals of reliability and highlighted potential sales opportunities. The team also walked through a role-play scenario, offering a practical glimpse into how a sales conversation around this capability might unfold. If you want to learn more about this training please visit the training page within the Sales Enablement Library. This was the last Sales Enablement training of the year, and we look forward to many more training sessions coming in 2024!
Technical Support
Case Volume by week:
Case Topics for Engagement queue, total:
Case Topics for Engagement queue, last week:
Development Operations
- Bob: Resolved a very isolated issue with the windows installers that was impacting a small set of PCs at P&G. Thanks to our Tech Support and the Tech Support at InstallShield and especially the patience of those at P&G that helped with supplying feedback from various testing over the last 6 months. Continued testing of authorization licensing. Modified windows installers to handle click licenses for version 18.
- Myron: Correct/update URLs and structure of email to testers (JMPTOOL-1030). Updated generic image checker emails and recipients (JMPTOOL-546). Addressed CatalogMacCrashes failures (JMPTOOL-1042). Migrated orphaned image jobs to help-pdf-builds-AWS (JMPTOOL-1036). Migrated tracked edits job to help-pdf-builds-AWS (JMPTOOL-1041).
- Shannon: Investigated various project failures in Jenkins and looked into various crashes including re-examining the longstanding JMPTEST-464, a managed except crash with the message “The parameter is incorrect” that we have not yet been able to replicate. Summarized system info for numerous impacted customers in Confluence; all recent customer reports install checker reports show they are using just two varieties of Intel graphics cards known to have issues with WPF applications. Will continue working with TS to see if updates to drivers help impacted customers. Worked to identify VM owners on a list from SAS IT.
Localization
- Allison: Researching translation of equations in JMP documentation as part of the FrameMaker to Oxygen conversion project targeted for V19; delivered Portable UI Handoff 2 to translation teams; training sessions with Trish.
- Howard: Continued work on localization dashboard and preparing demo of the dashboard for localization team; coordinating with Sandy on validations; development work and bug fixes associated with automation of localization processes.
- Krzysztof: Krzysztof: Met with Eric Hill to propose automated process to synchronize JMP Live English UI strings with translated. Work underway to implement the prototype. Worked on enhancements to UI translation validation scripts. Worked on Portable UI drop2 translation kits and processed returns of Sample Data. Writing a presentation for the 30th of November demo of MT and TM interfaces to dev.
- Sandy: Working on Sample Data & word count validations.
- Sohail: Finishing development of MT and TM interfaces for the presentation to dev.
- Trish: Delivered corrected 17.2 Deployment Guides to Marketing; triaged translation queries and Jira bugs; reconfigured localization schedules; training sessions with Allison.
Documentation
- Qiana: Made updates to the Using JMP doc to address the removal of sample data tables. Addressed Jiras. Documented process to use Perforce labels during file handoff to localization. Wrote the documentation section of the Language Support tech note.
- Susan C: Updating JMP Live user help and install help content and images. Fixed a few minor bugs from localization pertaining to the Quick Start. Interactive HTML help labeled and handed off to Trish.
- Chris B: Updated two examples in Essential Graphing that used the now-deprecated Crime data (JMP-18841 and 18842). Updated icons in the DJ and EG (JMPDOC-2018).
System/Host Testing-Cary
- Hunter: Completed some installer tests with JMP Clinical 18 EA 6 on several Macs. JIRA verifications. Tested the status of some Mac host fixes. Reopened one JIRA where a crash had been introduced when moving a folder within a project. More authorization testing and updated the status of some of the recently fixed items. Applied the required updates to my office Macs and our host testing Macs in the lab to get them in compliance.
- Mike M: Found Marker/legend issue from back in March with recent image diff. Working on a couple more complicated verifications. Handling 3 tech support tracks. Thanks to Audrey Shull for setting up a Jenkins run for my Sikuli VM!
- Audrey: Intern interviews for summer 2024; we made an offer to a candidate that was accepted. Did a little testing for data connectors and JMP Live. Reviewing the list of authorization Jira issues and triaging.
Web Testing – Cary
System/Host Testing-Beijing
- Beijing Team:
- Da Li: (1) Bug Verification for both JMP and JMP Live. (2) DONE: Non-English Testing for JMPC 18 round 1, 2 bugs created. (3)
- Prep fun topic for monthly meeting of November 2023.
- Nan Wu: (1) Bugs verification testing. (2) Testing for JMP Data Connectors, discussion issues with Neal via mail. (3) JMP 17.2 Subscription Installer Validation testing.
Data Discovery
- Dan S: Fixed JRP/session scripts for Column Switchers on By groups. Fixed Group Platform broadcast menu for FitLS and FitLogVar. Fixed crash when TextEditBox is deleted during callback. SendToReport updates for consistent output.
- Dave B: Entering and fixing issues found when saving and reopening JMP 18 journals in 18 and 17.
DOE
- Caleb: Working on reducing my tickets and resubmitting a manuscript for review.
Host
- John Schroedl: Added authorization-related messages to the diagnostic output created with the /logstart option (Win) and added initial support for -LogStart YES on Mac. The logStart(JString msg) API can be used to write information during JMP startup for Tech Support to help diagnose auth or other startup issues. Authorization message changes and code reviews with Daniel P. Vetting updated Visual C++ compiler. We will likely move to that for the 19.0 branch when the time comes.
- Paul N: Python Integration is nearly feature complete for JMP 18.0. Now concentrating on sample scripts and documentation. Made some minor fixes to Python samples in the Scripting Index.
Interactive HTML
- John Powell: Write Message to Log when Exporting Graph Builder Points With labels that are not yet supported(JMPHTML-2434). Fixed tooltips for categorical variables off by one in parallel plots(JMPHTML-2020). Fixed Curves and text not visible with a black background in parallel plots(JMPHTML-1974). Investigating an issue appearing in recent browsers where a pop up alert appears when navigating away or reloading a report on JMP Live(WEBJMP-7211). Interviewed candidates for summer 2024 internship and held debriefing to rank our top 3 candidates. Attended Sprint 18-8 Retrospective.
- Mike Stickles: Completed work on bug JMPHTML-1061 (Range bar markers do not provide visual distinction). Began work on bug JMPHTML-578 (Certain Bars are ultra thin on Bullet bar chart); have identified the issue but haven’t found a fix yet that doesn’t break something else.
- Michael Senoyuit: Investigated HTML5’s parser, encoding, and listeners. Completed JMPHTML-2181 - Fixed tooltip lost '\' on label for Treemap.
Statistics
- John Sall: In Model Screening, support numeric categorical response probabilities in Folded Prediction (JMP-19382). In Fit Model dialog - fix checkbox visibility with non-Pro (JMP-19408). In Model Dialog, crash fix in expression parsing (JMP-19422) In Hierarchical Cluster, excluding was disabling Color Map (JMP-17458). In Mixture Profiler, avoid inadvertant rescaling (JMP-19426) In Explore Outliers, remove constant columns before doing Robust PCA (JMP-10695). In Response Screening, add B-Y CI's to saved table (JMP-14909).
- Laura C-S: Fixed a couple left over bugs in SEM. Started organizing planned features for 19 and started on a bug fix for 18.1.
Stat Documentation
- Michael C: Adding documentation content for NFs/updates in various platforms, including Oneway, Generalized Regression, and other Fit Model chapters. Reviewed some edits in DOE for Karen.
- Karen: Working on updates to the screening chapter for the addition of mixed-level screening designs.
Note from Shannon
Thanks to all who sent along funny Thanksgiving items! Mark Bailey (a fan of grilling turkey) sent this one:
Bryan Boone shared this one:
And Wendy Murphrey sent along this real-life scene:
For all who are celebrating Thanksgiving, enjoy!!!
