FYI regarding widespread crashes with new Teams: Thanks to Mandy Chambers for sharing that the Teams crashes that many have been experiencing when working from home appear to be related to selecting option 1 or 2 to sign into the Cisco Secure Client. Using Teams without being connected to VPN or using Option 3 – Direct to SAS in the Cisco Secure Client can help avoid the crashes. Mandy is still working with SAS IT (and now Microsoft and Cisco support people) who are trying to figure out the root cause and when these issues started happening. Stay tuned…
Welcome to the JMP Development Update for April 26, 2024!
Now that we have passed JMP 18.1 Feature Freeze, please review any Story items that still have 18.1 in the Planned Version field and remove that version. When you do, if the item is still a priority for JMP 19.0, please make sure that 19.0 is in Planned Version. Thanks very much to Shannon Leslie for reaching out to developers to triage remaining 18.1 Story items this week! I also reached out to a few developers and testers to ask for help verifying the impact (or lack thereof) of 18.1 features on HTML/JMP Live reports.
As a reminder, we assess impact of JMP 18.1 features on a variety of groups (L10N, doc, testing, marketing, training, HTML/JMP Live) to make sure that the downstream teams that support feature development efforts have the information they need to plan their work. Speaking of which, a reminder that the JMP 18.1 Portable UI string deadline is Wednesday, May 1, 2024. Developers should rescue any stuck strings and resolve any other issues that Stringbot is complaining about by that date. After doc writers review the final set of extracted strings and make any necessary edits, we’ll have a final Stringbot run and hand off 18.1 strings for translation.
It's never too early to work on triaging bugs open in the 18.1 track! There are over 200 bug issues currently in Initiated and Developing status with Planned Version = 18.1. If there are items on the 18.1 list that are definitely not planned to be addressed there, please remove that version from Planned Version and reassign as needed to a later release.
We have now reached our JMP 18.0.1 Code Freeze milestone. Thanks to doc writer Susan Conaghan for working on a draft of the release notes for 18.0.1! JMP QA teams will begin vetting all the 18.0.1 product installers once final installer candidates are built early next week. This release will include third party library updates and resolutions to a handful of common crashes and numeric bugs.
As JMP 18.0 continues to roll out to more users, we will undoubtedly continue to receive new issue reports from technical support and find problems in testing 18.1 and 19 that are also present in 18.0. We will also continue security scans of 18.0, 18.0.1, 18.1 and 19.0 and prepare an 18.0.2 release track where security champions can make third party library updates (planned to release in mid-July). If you identify a non-security related showstopper bug that you believe cannot wait for 18.1 and should be included in 18.0.2, please follow the standard process of vetting the new fix in 19.0 (provided it is present there), then integrating the fix back to 18.1 for further verification. Once those steps are complete, please discuss the fix with your manager and request approvals if you agree that the issue is serious enough to merit inclusion in 18.0.2. Questions? Please reach out to Shannon Conners or Audrey Shull.
As we all know, it’s a JMP company goal for 2024 to use our own data to better understand our users, products and business. In the JMP Q2 Company Update this week, we heard more about the transition of JMP customers from SAS contracts to JMP UTOFs (tracked here in JMP Live). There is also now a Live dashboard tracking JMP 18 authorizations here. Finally, customers are opting in to sharing JMP 18 product usage telemetry as you can see in this summary graph in JMP Live. Developers and product management are already delving into the details of telemetry data to better understand customer usage patterns and inform our future development efforts.
At this week’s JMP dev meeting, JMP stat tester Tonya Mauldin shared links to JMP Live reports detailing another internal data source that we depend on during the development cycle – ServiceCloud cases and the connected Jira issues that capture beta user feedback. She compared case reports by version, information about issues reported, and shared her whole presentation in JMP Live here. If you missed the meeting, you can find a recording here. Thanks, Tonya, for triaging beta user feedback throughout our beta cycles and also thank you for helping field the many internal and external crash reports that feed the JMP crash system!
Finally, thanks to Audrey Shull for sharing this Jira Tip of the Week!
Although we mentioned it this last week, it’s worth mentioning again that Jirabot 3.0 is here and provides a self-service UI for editing Jira component ownership roles. (Thanks again to Myron Chandler and Melanie Drake for leading this effort!) Please update your bookmarks; the old HTML page listing component support roles still exists but is getting more and more out of date. From now on, you can visit the JiraBot 3.0 page directly to view the current set of role assignments.
General Announcements
Important Upcoming Dates
- JMP 18.0.1 Code Freeze – 4/26/24 ß TODAY
- 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
- Evan: Working with Dan Schikore to get Visual Styling to interact well with both rememberInitialState and user customizations. Looked at first-month v18 telemetry data, wrote a report on findings, and identified some telemetry gaps to be closed in v18.1. Responding to some Platform Presets questions. Released a Unit Conversion Add-In.
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Unit Conversion Add-In
This Add-In allows you to define and check the physical units of your columns and then convert them to different units. For example, define a column in milliliters/hectare and then convert it, along with all its column properties, to floz/acre. JMP already has an existing Units Column Property th...
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- Parker: Exploring and profiling different bilinear interpolation implementations. Participated (along with other early career JMPers) in the recent Clayton High School STEM tour of SAS and JMP and Early Career Q&A panel organized by Alisa Hunt-Lowry. Thanks to Alisa for sharing the photo below of the college-bound participants, who also had a chance to see what JMP could do. We hope they’ll see JMP again soon in their respective college courses!
- Dan S: Visual Styling feature work, comparing image tests with main branch. Fix for multiple column switchers in 19. Fixed order-by memory error in Group Platform (18.1/19). Integrated fixes for Selection filters and a <
- Dave B: Reproduced a mystery crash and found a few new issues with the join dialog. Made a few minor requested jmprunner updates. Worked on a crosstab / excel export bug.
- Xan: JMP Inspire Day Graph Builder talk at Wolfspeed; hexagonal jitter work.
DOE
- Caleb: Catching up on paper reviews and a few small bugs since then.
Host
- Paul N: Fix of JMP-21142 issue in transfer of JSL Matrix <-> Python through Python Get() and Python Send(). Working on Python Refresh script support and how to secure JMP’s install for sites that do not want the user support for Python package installs in a secure environment. Investigating Python Buffer Protocol behavior and Pandas column creation. Began investigating issue of feasibility of moving the Python dlls and support files from Windows executable directory to a sub-directory at Bob’s request.
- John Schroedl: Removed code related to deprecated Get Genomics Version, Set Genomics Version JSL and $GENOMICS_HOME path var. Added Clipping::isFromExcel for telemetry use. Investigated JMP Live automated test crash files. Updated libxml2 to v2.12.6. Investigate Load DLL regression reported by Chris Baptist of Spry Software. Resuming Home Window work.
Interactive HTML
- John Powell: Created bugs for issues found during whitebox testing. Fixed issues with reports containing Local Data Filters on JMP Live (JMPHTML-13675). Fixed bubble plot time label shrinking when regenerating on JMP Live (JMPHTML-13676). Fixed fill patterns drawing incorrectly with Contour HDR plots using a color role(JMPHTML-13677). Fixed value labels being ignored when using a column to define marker shapes(JMPHTML-13605). Held a meeting to plan our upcoming Performance Improvement sprint and created a few exploratory tasks for it. Explained why the same scripts used on Windows and Mac produce reports with different sized fonts in JMP and JMP Live. Added a new JMPHTML Jira Component and mapped it with JiraBot 3.0 (Thanks Myron and Melanie). Met with Praveena and Dieter to plan feature requests for JMP 19. Discussed the progress of automated testing of interactivity in Interactive HTML content with Hui, Natalie, Steve, and Josh.
- Paul Spychala: Usability Improvements and Bug Fixes this week, including keeping the Dragging state on Profilers when the mouse moves off the segment while still holding the mouse button down JMPHTML-13499:, GStream supports drawing of multiple circles from one draw call JMPHTML-13539:, newline characters and multiple line issues with Group role JMPHTML-2416:, graph clipping issues JMPHTML-13508, JMPHTML-13708:, more useful HTML Profiler warning for unsupported features, and a refactoring bug fix JMPHTML-13679:. Also filling in missing OTL entries.
- Mike Stickles: Logged 10 Jira tickets for issues found during whitebox testing. Fixed bugs JMPHTML-13658 (Bottom lines for bars are missing), JMPHTML-13696 (Bar Labels do not match when Summary Statistic is N/Count), and JMPHTML-13678 (Packed Bar shows selected pattern with fill pattern). Also fixed a minor bug that was introduced in the recent refactoring of BarSegment (JMPHTML-13616).
- Michael Senoyuit: Worked on getting up to speed on performance. Fixed JMPHTML-1396 - Previous zoom level does not save major and minor tick marks information when zooming in, and fixed a small axis optimization.
JMP Live
- Aurora: 18.1: Bug fixes. 19.0: Control chart warning improvements (store and pass along new info provided by JMP - also support storage, communication, and reset of triage information). Third party package updates. Removed a third party package that we are no longer using.
Statistics
- John Sall: In the Profiler Simulator - more work on Simulation Experiment (JMP-21139, JMP-21251). In Fit Stepwise, fix a transform parameter name bug (JMP-19652). In Fit Model, fixed prediction formula for continuous random effects (JMP-20926). In Categorical - reorganized cell formatting options towards being preferencable (JMP-2010), fixed save scripts in English (JMP-17948) and avoided a crash when the data filter is empty (JMP-14710).
- Laura C-S: Had a great time volunteering at the Inter-Faith Food Shuttle Farm and the Burkett Farm. Added a new feature to SEM for generating R code and created the corresponding feature page. Met with the DEI metrics committee to discuss an employee survey. Fixed a crash with bootstrap in multiple-group analysis. Fixed a bug with the context menus of a few lists in SEM.
- Annie: Focused on fixing some Short Run Control Chart issues, working with the JMP Live & HTML5 teams to work on Control Chart Warnings in JMP Live, and working on a paper with Di Michelson and Bill Woodall.
Stat Documentation
- Michael C: Worked on reviewing and finalizing strings in 18.1 prior to string handoff to translation teams. Updated Oneway/Contingency documentation for some recent 18.1 new features. Met with Fall Technical Conference (FTC) program committee to finalize the program for this year’s conference in October.
Stat Testing
- Jacob: Working on scripts to re-run my failing unit tests automatically, and working on documenting how to use them. Reviewing a test script and article. Verifying Jira tickets and cleaning unit tests.
- Tonya: Presented on the V18 EA feedback. Unit test cleanup and refactoring. Bug verification.
Life Sciences Updates
- Drew: Continued work on JMP Clinical 18.1 bug fixes. Triaged customer issues related to JMP Clinical installations/usage. Worked with Nick Ruva to start using AWS hosted virtual instances for dev/test JMP Clinical environments
Product Management and Product Marketing
- Dan: The Product Management and Product Marketing Q1 Update Article is now posted here in Confluence.
- Bryan F: Provided feedback to Adrianna Beck and Michael Goff on changes to authorization dialogs in JMP Live. Began creating style guidelines for changes to HTML5 to better match JMP Live. Had conversations with Dieter, John Powell, Michael Goff, Michael Senoyuit, Paul Spychala, and Praveena about potential changes to both JMP Live and HTML5. Updating Figma prototype of HTML5 updates for closer to pixel level accuracy. Along with Sarah Sylvestre, met with Alisa Hunt-Lowery to get her feedback on what challenges users have with importing and manipulating data with JMP. We also met with Synesco about some upcoming usability studies. Sarah is doing an excellent job coordinating and scheduling meetings with external companies for upcoming studies related to data table challenges as well as JMP LearnBot. Conducted a Design of Everyday Things book club with Julian’s team for determining metrics for solutions for sharing JMP customizations. Met with Parker Dingman who shared with me some proposed changes to existing JMP icons. I think he did an excellent job developing both representative icons as well as some guiding principles.
Technical Support and Engagement
- Duane: We continue helping users navigate My JMP and authorizations along with all other questions. Case counts dropped from last week, but are still trending up. After speaking with the team, we would like to give a couple of ‘Shout Outs’. First, to Dan Schikore – thanks for spending time sharing your JSL knowledge, and second, to Peng Liu – thanks for addressing several reported bugs so quickly. My team appreciates these efforts and they roll straight into better support for our users.
- 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:
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Development Operations
- Nick:
- Created Windows test machines for the Life Sciences group in AWS. Working with Drew and the team to ensure a smooth transition to testing and data access in AWS.
- Fixed issues with Mac Analysis builds that were reporting unknown errors for 19.0. We're now properly identifying developers and sending emails correctly. Also fixed a hardcoded path in the script pointing to //depot/main/... and updated the script and version it for each branch in Perforce so that Analysis results emails clearly identify the version of JMP that triggered the warning or error.
- Made a few adjustments to our source code Auto Integrate (AI) project to speed up Perforce syncs. We're now syncing and building faster than a few weeks ago. Also, fixed a small sync issue in the 19.0 Samples integration project that was introduced after we updated our Perforce server. (JMPTOOL-1165)
- Cloned the new AWS 18.x nightly Windows build machine and set up a new 19.0 Windows build machine from it.
- Myron: Added the ability in the Jirabot 3.0 UI to export the table (JMPTOOL-1154, JMPTOOL-1162). Updating and debugging certificate issues. Debugging incorrect special build totals (ASAN) on dashboard (JMPTEST-1172).
- Melanie: Jirabot 3.0: Tweaking/testing rules; testing new export to CSV button; answering questions. Helpkeys 18.1: Working through web connection issue. DevOps: General investigation, testing, troubleshooting on a wide variety of ongoing work.
- Shannon L: Met with Mia and Shannon C to learn more about the JMP EA process; assisted with 18.1 Jira issue clean up; met with Brian C to get an overview of the evolution of JMP authorization.
- Shannon C: Looked into a few Join and Script Editor related JMP 18.0 mystery crashes – thanks to Dave B for help with test cases! Assisted with other crash investigations. Created a Confluence page on the JMPTEST crash investigation process to help Melanie and Shannon L as they begin to look into mystery crashes. Reviewing telemetry reports in JMP Live with Lisa as we get more data from customers. Yay!
- Jim: Working with Daniel to authorize JMP 18.1 during batch UT runs. Reported new, as well as verified fixed assertion failures and ASAN crashes.
- Bob: Continued work on nightly installer process conversion to AWS from physical machines. JMP Pro for Live installer work – 18.1 and 19.0.
Localization
- Allison: Validated JA screenshots for GA, MM, PR, and shared them with vendor for PDF creation. Finalized and validated ZH translations of BA. Responded to queries from translation teams regarding strings from documentation. Finalized quote for localizing 18.1 UI to JA and European languages and submitted the purchase req. Updated issues for upcoming 18.1 UI localization with due dates and applicable subtasks/Smart checklists.
- Krzysztof: Finished off implementation and documentation of our new web server for hosting memoQweb (to be accessed by our vendors and reviewers). Consolidated the storage of our automation scripts (from P4 and Git to Git). Processing Book translation returns from the vendors.
- Sandy: Finished testing Trados style memoq wordcount and wordcount changes in project creation dashboard. Finishing testing image diff and populate jobs with labels added. Testing various file validation APIs.
- Trish: Triage of Portable UI strings stuck in stringbot at 18.1. Monthly meeting with Doc and Localization teams. Triage of localization queries and bugs reported by translation teams as they translate documentation.
- Sohail: Implementing new enhancements in the TM Search tool. Investigating requirements for deploying our own LLM solution for localizations.
Documentation
- Devon: Gathering files to send to WebWorks for them to evaluate if they can help us with FM > XML conversion, writing Examples to add to Platform Presets chapter, and learning the ins and outs of the Python package BeautifulSoup in order to run some natural language processing analysis on our documentation.
- Khawar: Made 2 minor edits to DJ (JMPDOC-21002). Started working on the removal of manual steps from screenshots (JMPDOC-26). Read and annotated a little more of the UG book. Started the Product Security Training.
- ChrisB: Diagnosing and fixing broken images in 17.2 and 18.0 localized DJ help. Good talks with Mike Muhlada about help and how better to test it. Trying to read up on how Specialization works in Oxygen.
- Susan C: Working on JMP Live updates for 18.1. Working on 18.0.1 Release Notes. Completed some required training. Finishing up 7 Habits of Highly Effective People class.
- Qiana: Sample data work. Oxygen project work. Project planning.
System/Host Testing-Cary
- Nick H: Cleaned up some failing/changed unit tests that started as a result of jitter changes. Submitted an abstract for Discovery for a possible fun presentation on importing fantasy football data into JMP using HTTP Request and/or JMP’s enhanced Python integration with preexisting API and API wrappers. The presentation would focus on importing the data into JMP, organizing it, and then analyzing the data to get insights on how to best win your fantasy football league. Also worked on some 19.0 planned 18.1 verifications, adding a couple of unit/image tests.
- Mandy: Continued work with IT on new Teams crashes. Worked on my Workflow Builder demo for Wolfspeed JMP Inspire day on Wednesday – it was a very informative meeting with good attendance. Worked on another short lightning Workflow demo for early May. Reported a few Jira issues and resolved and tested issues for 19.0 and 18.1. Wrote an abstract to submit for Discovery Summit.
- Audrey: Prepping for 18.0.1 installer testing, Confluence consultations, debugging issues with our process that grabs the Telemetry data. Created the installer test tracking Jira: JMPTEST-1203. Install testing for 18.0.1 will start next week.
- Mike M: Added new Sikuli test for EasyDOE from Jacob. Working on DJ with Chris. Catching up on verifications. New Jira for HTML5 legend issue. Several rounds of image test feedback for HTML bars issues.
- Lisa: Verified an 18.1 bug fix regarding Integer Overflow in RGBColor function and turned in my iMac and upgraded to a MacBook so I took some time setting it up.
Web Testing – Cary
- Josh: Live MSAD and Entra Sync testing. General UI verifications. Keycloak installer testing and updating our internal Keycloak servers to 24.0.3. Helped with a few Live customer deployments. Consulted on a crash Steve Chen is seeing when he runs automation.
- Anna: Verifying refactoring changes made by HTML5 team. Reported several minor bugs and also investigated issue with hover labels in Bivariate charts where numeric values show as missing instead of actual value. Dan found that it was caused by a change Xan made and is researching a fix.
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Beijing Cary Web Test Jira Status
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Note from Shannon
Hope you all have a wonderful weekend! :smiling_face_with_smiling_eyes:
