Welcome to the JMP Development Update for August 2, 2024!
Early this week, JMP DevOps created a set of JMP Student Edition 18.0.2 installers at the request of JMP senior management. With a different version number, new splash screen and updated installer name, the 18.0.2 Student Edition will allow us to make JMP Pro features available to students before the new academic year begins. By mid-August, these installers are planned to replace the free JMP installers currently being made available to students with a valid university email address in the JMP Store. Making software available in the Store in this way helps ensure Student Edition users are university-affiliated and greatly reduces administrative costs for both the university and for JMP business and legal teams who would otherwise handle time-consuming legal and contract related tasks. More comprehensive user interface changes and authorization updates will be coming for Student Edition in 18.2 so stay tuned.
In other release news, we are nearing security freeze for JMP 18.1 on 8/9/24. JMP 19 EA2 installers are also being created and will be verified prior to being released in MyJMP once QA signoff and MyJMP updates are complete (most likely by August 12). Thank you all for working on updates to feature pages, videos, and bug fixes in response to customer feedback received so far! As a reminder, we are currently planning to freeze JMP 19 EA3 on Friday, 9/20/2024.
Mia Stephens says that now is a good time to invite users to join the EA program. As a reminder, EA members must be authorized for JMP 18, JMP Pro 18, or JMP Clinical 18 to test respective EA versions. See EARLY ADOPTER PROGRAM for additional information about the program and changes in JMP 19, or feel free to reach out to Mia.
Mia also shares that the online Discovery Americas, Early User Edition is Sept 18-19. Meet the Experts (1:00-1:40 each day) will be staffed by SEs but development staff are welcome to attend. You can register using the link provided on the page. (If you are on the program you are already registered). Planning for the in-person Discovery Americas 2024 in Cary (Oct 21-24) is well underway. If you are presenting, and/or have spoken with your manager about attending, please hold tight. Information on staffing, how to register, how/when to book travel if needed and other details will be shared via the Discovery team in the coming weeks.
As Audrey Shull mentioned in her update below, “It’s been a really great last week of summer with the interns. Thanks everyone who came out to support them at the Intern Expo yesterday!” You can also find Allison Hines’ nice recap article on the Intern Expo here on InsideJMP. A very big thank you to all our interns who presented at round 3 and round 4 of the dev demos sessions this week! You can find all the recordings and slides for all four intern JMP Dev sessions linked from the 2024 Intern Presentations
Confluence page. And as always, a huge thanks to Audrey (our intern ambassador supreme), Andy Zhou, all our other intern managers and the entire JMP HR team for making the JMP intern experience such a special one. And beyond HR, I appreciate everything all of our JMP team members did to welcome, support and mentor interns this summer!
General Announcements
Important Upcoming Dates
- JMP 18.1 Security Freeze – 8/9/24
- JMP 18.1 Final Installer Candidates – 8/19/24
- Please visit Confluence for a full list of JMP 18 and JMP 19 dates.
JMP Development Updates
Technical Support and Engagement
- Wendy:
- The Support teams are busy, as usual, but took some time to watch the intern presentations this week. Also, a customer had this to say after accessing JMP 18 for the first time, “Everything works wonderfully – thank you!” Also, Jasean Rasnake would like to extend a special thanks to Andrew Vitkus for taking time this week to explain how colors work in JMP!
- 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
Technical Support Case Volume by week:
Engagement Support Case Volume by week:
Case Topics for Engagement queue, last week:
Development Operations
- Shannon L: Working on Jira workflow enhancements, to be announced and rolled out in the coming days; updated automated Jira sprint assignment for the start of EA3; attended the Intern Expo - very impressed with the JMP intern work!; met with Localization to understand their upcoming Jira query system project; answered Atlassian questions and investigated upcoming Atlassian changes and potential bugs; held and attended regular DevOps project meetings.
- Bob: Much to do in managing the JMP Student Edition process to build installers and properly input into My JMP. Worked with Dan and Jim on add JSS folder to Resources on Windows V19 installations. Test Windows installer-only build machine. Work with My JMP team and consultants on revised process for EA loads. Tweak EA installers to reflect EA2.
- Jim: Worked on JMP Student Edition 18 (18.0.2) installers, as well as the JMP EA builds and installers (still in progress). Investigated several JIRA entries, fixed a couple and verified fixes for others. mac OS system updates on multiple Daily UT machines.
- Myron: Worked on JMPTOOL-1183 – speeding up AWS stringbot job, JMPTOOL-1278 – filter/clean up of telemetry tables and exports, JMPTOOL-1048 – Mac attachments in crash system, and JMP-22430 – frightening updates to sample data.
- Shannon C: Worked on Discovery poster and script for presentation on crash and telemetry process. Reviewed latest telemetry data in JMP to identify highly repetitive submissions for removal from the database and suggest changes to views for database exports used by JMP Live reports and telemetry explorer (implemented by Myron, JMPTOOL-1278). Discussions on other internal data processes and release dates. Investigated a few crashes and attended various intern events. Thank you to all of our interns for being part of the JMP experience this summer! :smiling_face_with_smiling_eyes:It’s been great to get to know you!
Localization
- Allison: Validated 18.0 KO and ZH DOE pdfs and signaled QA for verification; resolved issus found by QA in 18.0 JA localized documentation pdfs; reviewed and processed quotes and invoice from localization vendors; handed off 18.0 JA localized documentation pdfs to Marketing team; created workflow jiras for localizing JMP Clinical.
- Sandy: Continuing work on commit job to automate copy of source files to stage area. Regression testing continued for various functions on the new version of project creation dashboard. Worked on adding file validation as final step of populate job. Continued work on automation framework.
- Trish: Review processes & Jira creation for Localized JMP Documentation Library. Reviewed memoQ automation workflow in prep for Howard’s presentation next week. Refining project planning workflow and documentation. Jira triage.
- Sohail: Attended Intern Expo presentations and events in Cary, improved result latencies on TM search webpage, resolved database bugs.
Documentation
- Khawar: Working on the Sample Index list; Need a few days to be able to discuss it in detail and devise the next plan. Reviewing DJ for Oxygen migration as discussed with Chris. Learning HTML and CSS. Finished working on (and presented) at the interns' presentation session.
- Qiana: Made updates to “A Process for Quality” document. Made updates to the JMP 18.1 Release Notes. Working on the draft Doc Add-in page for the Marketplace. Project planning and coordination.
- Devon: Zipping equations back into a converted chapter of FLM for the L10N team, looking into an issue where one of our scripts is supposed to relink file structures after they come back from L10N, learning how to use PyTorch.
- Susan C: Continuing work on Jiras for 19.0. Implementing and following up on 18.1 RN feedback (thanks to all who reviewed!). Working on the 18.1 JMP Live/Public localized help.
System/Host Testing-Cary
- Adnane: I just wanted to take a moment and express my gratitude for the incredible internship experience this summer. It has been an invaluable period of learning and growth, and I am thankful for the opportunity to be part of such a dynamic and supportive team. I would like to particularly acknowledge Audrey Shull for her exceptional leadership and guidance. Her insights and encouragement have been instrumental. I also want to acknowledge Nick Holmes and his patience with me and unwavering support. He has been a great mentor, and I learned so much from him.
- Audrey: It’s been a really great last week of summer with the interns. Thanks everyone who came out to support them at the Intern Expo yesterday. For anyone who missed their presentations: recordings and slides are linked from their 2024 Intern Presentations page. I’ve also been working on streamlining our dates, and I added 18.1.1 and 18.1.2 dates to the JMP 18 Dates page for those of you who may be looking ahead.
- Hunter: More testing of authorization items for Daniel primarily testing builds related to removing prior changes for JMP-21451. Doc review on several localized PDFs for Allison. Installed the JMP Student 18.0.2 build on Mac and Windows and reported results to Jim and Bob. Reported a scenario to Bob where one of the two COM Add-Ins was failing to register in Excel. Responded to JMP 19 EA 1 tracks.
- Mike M: Got 18.2 running on Sikuli. Found crash regression. Worked on Help Doc verifications. Still trying to figure out how to keep my AWS VM from locking during Sikuli runs: experimenting with John Schroedl’s help on Windows.
System/Host Testing-Beijing
Core
- Parker: Finished up map zoom in/out button, implemented changes from server maps that weren’t applied to local maps, and some maps testing! OOO for August. Reducing hours for year-round internship in September. Planning to add new maps during the year-round internship. Thanks for a great summer JMP!
- Dave B: Worked on group breaks for table box. The 18.2 branch was not processing html files correctly so fixed that problem and restarted processing from the beginning. Fixed a jmprunner crash that Hunter reported.
- Dan S: More work on tab page drag/drop issues. Integrated dashboard filter fix to JMP 18.2. Additional work on the VisualStyling initiative and refactoring for platform report layout.
- Morgan: Added an embedded log to Notebooks, and I’ve done some minor bug fixing for Formula Depot and script windows.
- Xan: Using sparse matrices for p-spline math; fixing bugs in Power axis and jitter scripting.
DOE and Reliability
- Caleb: This week, Ryan and I finished up our first draft of a tutorial on modern DOE for the RAMS 2025 conference. I also added a feature to CSALT that allows users to simulate models to assess how well the asymptotic criteria holds up to simulations. This was present in the legacy ALT platform. I’ve also been preparing for JSM next week.
- Irene: Fixed 2 Jira tickets with Ryan, submitted MEMOCODE paper, working on research projects.
Hosting and Interfaces
- John Schroedl: Discussions and reviews of clipping changes with Evan. Added an option which may help Mike M. with Sikuli testing. Starting work toward supporting Dark Mode on Windows. First order of business there is some preference handling cleanup. I plan to promote the recent source changes and package updates to support uploading survey results to our production telemetry server this weekend.
- Will Morgan: Intern Expo went well! Thank you to all who came by to see my poster board. Also, thanks to everyone who stuck around for my JMP presentation, if you have any questions about the S3 data connector, feel free to reach out to me. I have also fixed a few minor bugs for the Python data connectors: JMP-22389, JMP-22390. For the SharePoint data connector, I am looking into Python libraries to handle the OAuth2 authentication to gain access to the MS graph API to interact with OneDrive and SharePoint files.
Interactive HTML
- John Powell: Completed the process to seek approval to use the three.js library in our web-based 3D graphics (JMPHTML-13939). Continued working on supporting Scatterplot3D in Interactive HTML (JMPHTML-13491). Demoed Interactive graphs with disabled overlay roles and Scatterplot 3D at our Sprint 19-3 Review meeting. Met with John Sall to discuss ways to reduce storage of files used in the web-based Process browser generated from the Process Screening Platform (JMP-22074). Began modifying Interactive HTML export, loading, and storage mechanisms to support integrating multiple XML sections (JMPHTML-13996).
- Mike Stickles: Working on expanding Word Cloud Interactive HTML functionality to include synchronizing selections between word clouds and their related term lists consistently (JMPHTML-13966 and JMPHTML-13982) as is done in JMP. Created utility to make it easier to explore the HTML generated by the JavaScript in exported reports (useful for analysis and debugging in the work mentioned above).
- Michael Senoyuit: Worked on MRLDF and JMPHTML-13957 - CCB : special char '\' does not appear in phase role.
- Paul Spychala: Added support for Spline Eval Operation in HTML (JMPHTML-13963). Finished up Sprint and EA2 demos and feature pages. Getting up to speed with Three.js library. Working on where and when to enable Responsive HTML reports.
JMP Live
- Aurora: Control chart warning improvements (working on supporting assignment to a group). The main thing I did this week was get COVID. The HCC said it's going around for sure. I don't know how to translate this into advice, because the only thing that would have spared me is "for no apparent reason, refuse to send your kid to summer camp, and don't celebrate your mom's birthday". Not very practical advice.
Statistics
- John Sall: For Categorical, met with P&G and implemented cell highlighting comparing to control group (JMP-22426); For Profiler, participated in a UI planning session and raised an N Levels limit from 200 to 1000; For Process Screening, built a tabbed and data-table-linked version, made datetime-labeled file names, and wrote a simplified Goal Plot for the html version (JMP-22074). (Thanks to Praveena who provided a draft working example in https://sww2.sas.com/jmphtml5/Test/Praveena/ProcessScreening/Aug1st/2024-08-01-08-01-47-ProcessSummary.html)
- Laura C-S: Working on the examples for Bollen’s upcoming SEM book, which helped me find ways to improve the MIIV-2SLS report and a performance bug. I’ve been working on those improvements, fixing a couple bugs, and investigating the performance issue. Also recorded an EA2 video to highlight the benefits of MIIV-2SLS in SEM.
Stat Documentation
- Hamid: Setting, discussing, and planning goals for H2 with my manager (Michael). Reviewing Multivariate Methods Platforms and Doc to prepare for the related Jira issues (e.g., new features). Began working on two open SEM DOC Jira Issues which require adding new examples to the doc.
Stat Testing
- Mark: Debugged a long-standing, intermittent set of unit test failures with Nicole (failures only occurred on Apple Silicon machines, which disrupted random number generation while making custom designs). Discussed training opportunities for Bayesian Optimization with Ruth and DI. Reviewed notes from the HCI conference to highlight opportunities for JMP with Ryan, Joseph, and Jacob. Redesigned launch dialog and added a Recall feature to prototype add-in for Bayesian optimization. Developing common use cases to compare conventional sequential experimentation techniques with BO. Attended student intern presentations.
- Jacob: Writing a new unit test for OML Screening Designs, focusing on cases where categorical factors can have more than 2 levels. Testing Categorical updates for JMP 19, working on additional tests for Mean Score Comparisons and Compare Each Cell with cross-table comparisons. Verifying Jira tickets and cleaning unit tests.
- Haley: Wrote scripts to compute benchmarks for the MIIV-2SLS estimator in the SEM platform. Created UTs for and verified a couple of bugs in the SEM platform. Met with Laura Castro-Schilo to discuss research ideas. Completed the first module of the STIPS course.
Life Sciences Updates
- Richard: Implementing a Recurrence report for adverse events within JMP Clinical.
Product Management and Product Marketing
- Mia:
- We’re working on getting EA2 and Clinical EA2 to members of the early adopter program, most likely August 12 if not before. Thanks to everyone involved - you know who you are!
- Now is a good time to invite users to join the EA program. As a reminder, EA members must be authorized for JMP 18, JMP Pro 18, or JMP Clinical 18 to test respective EA versions. See EARLY ADOPTER PROGRAM for additional information about the program and changes in JMP 19, or feel free to reach out to Mia Stephens.
- The online Discovery Americas, Early User Edition is Sept 18 and19. Meet the Experts (1:00-1:40 each day) will be staffed by SE’s, but development staff are welcome to attend. You can register using the link provided on the page. (If you are on the program you are already registered).
- Planning for the in-person Discovery Americas 2024 in Cary (Oct 21-24) is well underway. If you are presenting, and/or have spoken with your manager about attending, please hold tight - information on staffing, how to register, and how/when to book travel if needed, … will be shared via the Discovery team in the coming weeks.
- Bryan F: Collaborated with Justin Chilton on how to display report regeneration errors, and guiding users to resolution as well as triaging history. Provided design guidance to JMP Live team. Gave Marketplace feedback to Kristen Slappey, prepared usability test script, and setting up S3 bucket to deliver usability instructions and receive client data. Many thanks to Alex Taylor for enabling me to do the AWS work. Worked on UX tasks with Sarah Sylvestre, created Microsoft Form for screening JMP Live Control Chart Triaging usability study participants, and created NN/g class material for learning transfer. Met NN/g mentoring partner. Received confirmation regarding JMP student splash screen receipt from Bob Hickey and Jim Borek. Passed along information about heuristic evaluation to Mark Bailey and Jacob Rhyne.
Note from Shannon
Hope you all have a wonderful weekend! And thank you to all our summer interns once again! We are all so impressed with what you accomplished and appreciate all your efforts across JMP!
