Welcome to the JMP Development Update for April 12, 2024!
JMP 18.1 Feature Freeze is coming up at the end of the day next Friday, April 19. If you have marked a new feature item fixed at 18.1, please evaluate its impact on the JMP 18.1 New Features page in Confluence. And if you are finalizing a feature for 18.1 this week, please copy the template table in that page and make a new section header for your feature. This is very helpful to downstream teams planning their own 18.1 work.
We are also fast approaching the Code Freeze date for JMP 18.0.1, our first planned “dot-dot” release. While focused on third party library updates to resolve security issues, this release will also include a few select fixes and other important updates. Items resolved in 18.0.1 can be identified in Jira with a Fix Version of 18.0.1. All non-security fixes must be approved for inclusion in 18.0.1. Please send a note to the JMP Approvers list with details if you are seeking approval to push a non-security code change to 18.0.1.
Thanks to Mia Stephens for the reminder that the deadline for JMP Discovery Summit US paper submissions is April 23 and JMP R&D staff are invited to submit abstracts. Discovery US will be held in Cary Oct 21-24. In the meantime, please do register here if you’re interested in attending JMP Discovery Europe Online. This online portion of the event follows a very successful in-person Discovery conference in Manchester last month.
General Announcements
Important Upcoming Dates
- JMP 18.1 Feature Freeze – 4/19/24
- JMP 18.0.1 Code Freeze – 4/26/24
- JMP 18.0.1 Release – ~ 5/18/24
- JMP 18.1 Approval Mode Begins – 5/21/24
- JMP 18.1 Code Freeze – 6/14/24
- Please visit Confluence for a full list of JMP 18 and JMP 19 dates.
JMP Development Updates
Data Discovery
- Xan: GB Undo crash fixed with Dan’s help. Code modernization: using FlatHashMap instead of JHashMap. More marker jitter orientation options in the works allowing this kind of logistic plot.
- And Q: Fixed some stretch-to-fill behaviors for collapsed boxes. Investigating problems where padding/margin can be lost when boxes are cloned (journal or image output). Working on handling host metrics via Visual Styling framework.
- Dave B: Integrating changes into 18.1. Fixed tablebox/mousewheel scrolling bugs. Fixed pdf export sizing bug.
DOE
- Caleb: More triaging of JIRA tickets, particularly related to sample size explorers. I’ve also picked back up work on the paper with Brad on an alternative to Lenth’s method for non-orthogonal designs. Finally, I’ve been helping one of Doug Montgomery’s PhD students with analysis of some preliminary degradation testing on an interesting project they’re running.
Host
- Kristen: This week’s development was focused on making localization updates for the JMP Marketplace to make strings and text available in the JMP supported languages and Error Handling UI Updates JMPMRKT-28 & JMPMRKT-63.
- Paul N: Update embedded Python to 3.11.9 in JMP 18.0.1, JMP 18.1, JMP 19, on Windows and Mac.
- Michael H: Removed SAS TK (threaded kernel) libraries from JMP 19.
Interactive HTML
- John Powell: Converted Format.js to a JavaScript Class (JMPHTML-13645). Working on converting BubblePlotSegment.js to a JavaScript Class (JMPHTML-13655). Removed unused code for Heatmap and Bar interactive binning prototype (JMPHTML-13563). Reviewed Feature Requests with Praveena to plan for JMP 19. Discussed new look for Interactive HTML content with Praveena, Paul S., Michael S., and Bryan F. (JMPHTML-1835). Discussed implementation details for Control Chart Warnings Triage in JMP Live with Praveena and Annie (JMPHTML-13650).
- Praveena:
- Met with John Powell to review 19.0 features.
- Control Chart Warning feature on JMP Live
- Michael Goff and I are working to get the Context Menu event handling to add support for triaging.
- Met with Annie and John to understand CCB functionalities.
- Met with Aurora, Annie and Michael for our weekly meetings
- HTML UI: Reviewed and finalized the design ideas identified during prior sessions with HTML Team and Bryan Fricke
- Michael Senoyuit: Finished refactoring BoxPlotSegment, worked on the HTML design facelift, and started creating a font class.
JMP Live
- Aurora: Continued work on control chart warning improvements.
Statistics
- Laura C-S: Stepped away from MIIV-2SLS estimator this week to focus on small fixes for SEM in 19.0 and integrations for 18.1. Fixed a path diagram issue with multiple-group analysis (diagram was displayed off centered). Fixed a bug with bootstrap such that the bias correction wasn’t ignoring missing values in a given statistic. Also added a new column to the bootstrap results table that displays warnings or other messages encountered during estimation (e.g., negative variances, non-convergence, etc). Added a new fit index in the Model Comparison table (requested by Narayanan, now at U of Cincinnati), and fixed a JSL issue with Define Time Values.
Stat Documentation
- Michael C: Reviewed Scripting Index changes for Colleen; met with the program committee for Fall Technical Conference to review submitted abstracts; started investigating some errors that Acrolinx is not catching in FrameMaker files.
Stat Testing
- Mark: Identified short-comings of the long-standing Save/Load Responses/Factors feature in DOE platforms with Jacob for review by Ryan and Joseph. Updated unit tests scripts for Easy DOE after replacement of select list in Model tab for Flexible mode. Closed Jira tickets for Easy DOE. Studying Bayesian optimization.
- Jacob: Verifying Jira tickets for DOE and adding unit tests. Adding a unit test for Torch Deep Learning tabular models. Working on a script to re-run my failing unit tests and publish confirmed failures. Assisting JMP Technical Support with a DOE Power Analysis question. Doing some unit test cleanup.
- Tonya: Working on a presentation of the V18 Early Adopter data. Bug verification and unit test cleanup.
Life Sciences Updates
- Rebecca: Kicking off a JMP Clinical retrospective by organizing feedback into a Confluence page and making it available for our team to review. Continuing to work on bug fixes for 18.1 including those on a new report to summarize disposition information.
- Richard: Prototyping a report that will allow non-SQL users to identify safety issues or medications within user-defined time windows around reference events or medications.
Product Management and Product Marketing
- Bryan F: Along with Sarah Sylvestre, met with Greg Flexman and Olivia Lippincott to discuss their responses to a data table survey that Sarah prepared. Processed and presented results from the JMP Lab for Dynamic Data Table Subsetting. At this point all of the results from the recent Discovery Europe JMP Lab have been processed and presented. Met with members of JMP Digital Ops, Marketing, and Customer Care about the JMP Brand. Worked with HTML5 developers on developing a style more consistent with the JMP Live chrome. Various JMP Live design discussions. Continued with using some UX techniques with Julian’s group based on a Design of Everyday Things Book Club. Planning related to the Visual Styling Framework effort. Responded to another request for a remediation schedule for non-compliant accessibility areas of JMP.
Technical Support and Engagement
- Duane: Another busy week in Support! Wendy’s team is fielding many cases regarding My JMP issues and authentication questions. Please note that the JMP 18 Trial is NOT available yet. Work is being done to make it available, but it isn’t out yet. 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
- Melanie:
- DevOps: Overview meetings and chats with Shannon Leslie and other DevOps folk. General investigation and troubleshooting. Builtins 18.1: updated the Stringbot-JSL-Maintenance job to work against 18.1; ran a test run (no strings yet); ready for new strings next week. HelpMap for 18.1: Worked on updating the Upload job.
- Last Sunday I went to the Poe Museum in Richmond, VA. Just for fun, I imported the Raven into JMP and did a sentiment analysis on it. I then used the overall sentiment score to color a word cloud.
- Jim: Integrated approved changes into the 18.0.1 branch; provided additional Perforce support. Restaged Russ’s mac mini; updated the OS on multiple testing mac minis. Working with Paul Nelson to get Python modules installed on mac OS via batch scripts. Working with Daniel Powell to determine why many UT machines do not authorize after last week’s server-side change.
- Myron: Worked on putting together JMPTOOLPROD.dev.jmp.com and getting JiraBot deployed there. That required some tinkering to set up a different Azure auth app (so I wouldn't be sharing the dev instance) and some code changes to be more flexible with auth tokens and IDs and such when the app code gets promoted from jmptooldev to jmptoolprod.
- Bob: More license agreement updates. Troubleshooting for authorization issues. Removed tkext files from Windows JMP 19 installers. Documented use of custom files in windows 18 installers.
- Shannon C: Onboarding meetings with Shannon L. Investigated JMP 18 production crashes. Conversations with JMP LS about future retrospective.
Localization
- Krzysztof: working on setting up an AWS machine for hosting memoQweb for external users (vendors, reviewers), improving the TermBase process (new stop list), working on a fix to a problem with Adobe FrameMaker filter (not importing AltText strings), planning dev tasks related to MT and LLM, introduced QA check with RegEx for checking discrepancies in leading commas in PortableUI.
- Sandy: Checked in changes for process to produce Trados style memoq wordcount report for one of our vendors - this is ready for test/implementation. Tested image diff populate job with labels added. Began testing xliff validator and QA apis. Worked on changing file validation for docsource/l10nsource to use new file api.
- Allison: Communicated with linguists and writers on queries regarding strings from Big Books. Validated the localized screenshots for UG and BA. Communicated with JMP Legal about work orders; worked on putting together quotes for 18.1 JMP UI localization; reported bug on drag and drop function not working in localized JA and ZH sample data table.
- Howard: Bug fixes. Imagediff job development. Worked on Jira API for localization Dashboard.
- Trish: Localization queries, work orders, Jira updates and schedules. OOTO two days this week.
- Sohail: Continuing enhancing TM Search tool and process.
Documentation
- Susan C: Finished UI string reviews in Feb - April for main and 18.1. Got 18.1 Release Notes files ready for updating in Perforce. Working on dates for Release Notes and JMP Live. Working on JMP Live 18.1 updates. Working on JMP Live retrospective updates to 17, 17.1 & 17.2 help.
- Devon: Finalizing converted chapters of DJ for review, JMP-20614: looked at an issue with English image alt text in translated help, learning how to use PuTTy and OpenSSH to send files to an AWS instance
- Qiana: Sample data work. Oxygen planning. JMP 18.0.1 and 18.1 project planning and coordination.
- ChrisB: String reviews. Building the localized DJ help. Looked at some Oxygen conversion issues.
System/Host Testing-Cary
- Mandy: Attended the JMP user group meeting on Wednesday at Building C. Great presentations on JMP 18 from our JMP SE’s and others. Also verified JMP 18.1 and 19.0 issues. Met with SAS IT to try and figure out why Mac Teams keeps crashing for me - deleting more Cached files seemed to help – fingers crossed. Attended a meeting to prepare for a Customer Visit April 24th demoing Workflows. Also, just because I love basketball and Caitlyn Clark’s journey, I saw a graph and decided to try and use JMP and GB to try and replicate it. Sort of got it here:
And to be fair to Edey, rebounds are his thing but she still kicks butt on points…
- Hunter: Spent most of the week testing several items affecting authorization from Daniel and Aaron. Reported issue with being unable to obtain requested verification codes via email when attempting to access “My JMP” or authorize current JMP installations.
- Audrey: Intern planning, adjusting machines and processes after the 18.1 authorization fix, Confluence trainings.
Web Testing – Cary
- Natalie: Steve and I focused on getting the daily automation runs working at JMP 18.1 and 18.0.1 but are still blocked by an existing issue. I pushed some changes made at JMP 19 to 18.1 and I have a fix for 5 more of the testcase failures in our existing coverage. Made additional progress with new coverage for missing value changes in tooltips.
System/Host Testing-Beijing
- Beijing Team: JMPTESTBJ-2998: JMP 18.1 & 19.0 baseline tests fix for local languages - In Progress, Chinese Done
- Da Li: (1) Bug verification. (2) IN-Progress: Feature testing, 8 bugs created (WEBJMP-6251: Embed JMP Live using an iFrame (or other technology) in a way that the content is discoverable, even if you are not logged in). (3) Adding additional Jest UT into both 18.1 and 19.0 for WEBJMP-8364: IP Address is exposed in history table download to non-sys admin.
- Nan Wu: (1) JMP 18.1/19.0 bugs regression testing, mainly on the JMP Install Checker regression testing. (2) JMP 18.1 baseline tests fix for Chinese languages done for both 18.1 and 19.0, and uploaded the fixed test files to perforce already (JMPTESTBJ-2998). (3) Found some local languages baseline testing failures from nightly run lab machines, after investigation these failures seems to be caused by the region not set correctly for the local language tests and some files needed may be can not accessed from the lab machine, sent mail to Jim for help to FIX the lab machine environment issues.
- Kimi: (1) Bug verification. (2) Python NF: Dark Theme Syntax highlighting, for details refer to JMP-17755 – In Progress, created a new story JMP-21040: Improvement for Python Script editor. Python 3.11.8 regression testing (win part), details refer to JMP-21008 – In Progress, Paul plan to upgrade to 3.11.9 for both win and mac. Get Path Variable, details refer to JMP-20992 - Done. Cell height and column display width, details refer to JMP-20991 – Done. (3) Discuss with Paul about Group Policy issue on mac. (4) Summarize possible new features/bug fixes for Python 19.0 - Done. [JMP-21037: JMP 19 Python Integration. (5) Fix Baseline failures for JA and DE, for details refer to JMPTESTBJ-2998 – In Progress. (6) JMP Live NF: support using python in refresh scripts, details refer to JMP-20748 – In Progress. (7) Jenkins: Check results for Beijing Daily UT. JMPTESTBJ-3007: Optimization: Upgrade Node.js to 20.11.1 for jmplive server 19 and JMP Live migration test – In Progress. JMPTESTBJ-3006: Optimization: Update license file for both win and mac – In Progress.
- Da Zhang: (1) Bug verification. (2) Re-benched files for Text Explorer due to sorting differences on various Mac versions.
- Nala: (1) Bug Verification. (2) Continue to test JMP Live new feature: WEBJMP-6650: Space level record viewing and downloading.
Note from Shannon
Hope everyone (within range in North America) had the chance to see something of the solar eclipse! Enjoy the weekend! :smiling_face_with_smiling_eyes:
