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Welcome to the JMP Development Update for August 23, 2024!
Thanks very much to Audrey Shull for doing the update last week while I brought my college student back to school for her sophomore year at Western Carolina! It was a bit cooler out in the mountains, but even here in the Triangle area, it’s starting to feel like fall is in the air. I’ll take it, even if it’s temporary!
With JMP Student Edition 18.0.2 and JMP 19 EA2 now released, QA teams are currently verifying 18.1 installers for JMP, JMP Pro, JMP Clinical and JMP Live. DevOps is now running CI and nightly processes for the JMP 18.1.1 track. As a reminder, 18.1.1 is primarily intended for security fixes to third party libraries, although JMP Approvers will also consider other showstopper fixes if they cannot wait for JMP 18.2. If you are requesting a code change that is not related to a security fix, please send a note to JMP Approvers detailing your request and outlining any impact to testing. As a reminder, we do not update strings or documentation for dot-dot releases.
Thanks very much to Bryan Boone and Chris Hesser for presenting on enhancements to SAS integration coming in JMP 19 at this week’s dev meeting! Bryan also shared some valuable background info about the changes JMP has made to SAS integration in recent versions. If you missed the meeting, you can find a recording here. And if you’d like to present at a future Dev meeting, you can sign up for a date here.
Thanks very much to Tonya Mauldin for sharing this week’s Beta/Crash details for the last 2 weeks with crashes selected!
Beta/Crash reports for the weeks of 8/16/24 and 8/23/24 | JMP Live
General Announcements
Important Upcoming Dates
- JMP 18.1 QA Signoff - ~9/17/24 (or sooner)
- JMP 19 EA3 Code Freeze – 9/20/24
- JMP 18.1.1 Security Freeze – 11/1/24
- JMP 18.1.1 Final Image Candidate – 11/4/24
- JMP 18.1.1 QA Signoff – 11/14/24
- JMP 18.1.1 Release in MyJMP - ~11/19/2024
- Please visit Confluence for a full list of JMP 18 and JMP 19 dates.
JMP Development Updates
Technical Support and Engagement
- Congratulations again to Duane Hayes on his upcoming retirement! Cary folks celebrated this milestone (as well as Duane’s 32nd work anniversary) at a reception in building A this week with tributes to Duane’s many years of service delivered by John Sall, Jeff Perkinson, and Wendy Murphrey. Duane tells me he is looking forward to retirement and is happy to leave JMP Technical Support in Wendy’s capable hands when that day comes! In addition to many current JMP team members, it was great to see fellow tech support retirees Glen Grimme, Sue Walsh and Kathleen Kiernan also at the celebration. Congrats, Duane, and I hope we’ll see you sporting a new retiree badge at the building A café in the future! :smiling_face_with_smiling_eyes:
- Duane: Here are the TS JMP Live reports. Please note the new location, under the “User Enablement” space. Ryan and Taylor will be managing these moving forward. And, here is 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, total:
Case Topics for Engagement queue, last week:
Development Operations
- Shannon L: Assisted with Registering Technologies process for JMP for 19 EA releases and 18.x releases; tested changes to Testing Dashboard for minor.minor release value handling; assisting with Oxygen planning for WebWorks HTML creation; Jira API testing and investigations; continuing with investigating Jira oddities with skipped issue key numbers with Atlassian support; assist with planning parallel JSL Unit Test streams project; assist with planning console log data collection project for UT Jenkins projects; rolled out production Jira customizations announced last week.
- Jim: Produced JMP 18.1 final installer candidates for Mac and Windows; disable related tasks and projects. Update processes to run localized Baseline tests and daily tests for JMP 18.1.1 on one mac and one Windows machine. Converted remaining JMP 18.1 unit test machines for use with JMP 18.2.
- Myron: JMPTOOL-1183 – continued to debug differences between production Stringbot and AWS version. JMPTOOL-1297 – updated unit test code and tables for 18.1.1.
- Bob: Built installer validation files for 18.1 Windows. Testing with new installer-only build machine.
- Shannon C: Meetings on unit test process changes and data collection for unit test Jenkins projects
Localization
- Allison: Validated localized screenshots for 18.0 Big books; validated localized 18.0 FLM pdfs and handed off to QA for testing; resolved issues and handed off localized 18.1 Release Notes deliverables to BRD for DTP; updated localization workflow and Jira automation integration Confluence page; validated vendor invoices and processed for payment.
- Sandy: Tested new function on project creation dashboard. Made some enhancements to file validation program and tested these with production jobs. Had kickoff meeting for new automation framework. Worked on project plan for new automation framework. Worked on documentation for various project creation dashboard validations that needed updating. Started work on file validation for image diff job.
- Krzysztof: Working with JMP Marketplace developer on improving the quality of Add-in Descriptions machine translation output. Handling the postprocessing of JMP Clinical translations for 18.2. Started planning the “Large Language Model implementation for localization” project. Testing new L10N workflow automation features.
- Howard: Worked on JIRA integration workflow with PMs. Finalizing Translation Export and Push feature on the Dashboard, implemented existing jobs or functions to the process
- Keycloak post-process
- webjmp post-process
- installer post-process
- Fix unescaped bracket
- Sohail: Completed work on TM Search Dashboard and finished debugging and testing final features. Beginning work on exploring LLMs for translation productivity and efficiency in term extraction, term explanation, quality assurance etc.
- Trish: Defect triage; evaluating workarounds to deliver localized JMP Documentation add-ins to customers JMPWEB-1279; reviewing localization workflows for automation.
Documentation
- Khawar: Discussed sample index issues; Worked on populating the sheet with some issues and examples; Started a draft document for the process of editing sample index. Attended the WebWorks and Oxygen meeting to discuss the plan. Working on the CSS course.
- Devon: Working on JSR stuff: JMP-18250: Adding optional Excluded(Row State()) argument to multiple Col() functions in JSR, various other JSR improvements: JMP-21920, JMP-21991, JMP-20664, JMP-18823; JMP-16968: Sent ruler tool update to Test; JMPDOC-2265: Working through errors found in converted DJ.
- Qiana: Created JMP Live 18.2 template files. Made updates to the Updating help templates and project files page. JMP Live meeting and planning. Oxygen meetings and planning.
- Susan C: Jira work - moving Epics to Stories so they appear on board, then moving them into sprints. Met with JMP Live folks to discuss ideas for improvement and a new config guide. Researched ideas and created a Confluence page. Updated Trish to let her know about possible plans/config guide.
- ChrisB: Working on the presets doc (JMP-22441 and JMPDOC-2183). Reading through Python doc. Getting Sikuli to automate some of creating the Doc Library PDF.
System/Host Testing-Cary
- Hunter: Working through my two assigned configurations for JMP 18.1 final installer testing. Reported issue and later verified resolution with authorization failures with JMP 18.2. Wrangling with a possible network problem to get remote screen sharing working again on MDA692 (the Sequoia Beta M1 Mac) in the lab.
- Audrey: JMP 18.1 Installer Testing is ongoing and I am reviewing incoming issues; we are on track to sign off next week. Brainstorming for improvements to the JSL test framework. Planning with testers about JMP 19 feature work.
- Lisa: Worked on 18.1 installer testing, finalizing Discovery poster, and started looking at new Overlay Axes feature in GB.
System/Host Testing-Beijing
Core
- Xan: Starting to add support for many Y axes on a single graph frame.
- Dan S: Fixing some issues related to the new PlatformContainerBox. Fixed a problem with report titles for Fit Model with By role. Fixed journaling/printing of Dashboards to not show the extra Outline title that is suppressed in a live platform. Fixed action recording for changes in By platforms and worked with Peng on a related issue in Life Distribution action recording.
- Dave B: Fixed a bug copying a graph axis, worked with tech support on reproducing a customer crash, worked with tech support on a graph axis question, fixed a jmprunner bug copying debug builds locally, and fixed a display box leak
- Evan: Working on adding HTML to the clipboard when copying reports, (hopefully) resulting in better interop with Microsoft Office.
DOE and Reliability
- Caleb: Fixing some CSALT and sample size explorer bugs. I’ve also started work on converting some of the two sample explorers into C++ and recorded my Discovery Talk with Sky and Zoe last Friday. (On a personal note, a very happy birthday to Caleb’s daughter Nora, who turns 4 today!)
Interactive HTML
JMP Live
- Aurora: Control chart warning improvements (support download of current triage data for a report). Prepared for on demand (recorded) Discovery talk. Got more familiar with JSL / Python interface by converting some existing data refresh scripts to Python or to JSL-executing-Python. Created Confluence article "JMP Live Admins - what can they do?"
Statistics
- Laura C-S: Fixing bugs in SEM and continuing to add functionality to the MIIV-2SLS estimator. The latest improvements make it really easy to copy an SEM previously fitted with maximum likelihood and to paste it into a platform launched with the MIIV-2SLS estimator (the platform detects the model came from ML and makes necessary changes automatically). We also now show the MSE for each 2SLS equations in the report. Provided feedback for the DEI metrics survey and coordinated a meeting with the current and future chair of the Mental Health section at the ASA to collaborate on a JSM presentation in 2025.
- Laura L: Finished work on adding the ability to have group by columns in the Process Capability platform. (see Grouped Process Capability Analysis in the Process Capability Platform for more details)
Stat Documentation
- Hamid: Completed the LGC no-growth model example and updated the wording of the Estimation Method in the PCA to align with versions 18 and above. This process included both a thorough revision of the document and a detailed review of the platform to identify and correct any discrepancies. Several inconsistencies were identified and resolved.
- Michael C: Attended management training course on Monday. Worked on SI content updates in the Mixed Model personality of Fit Model. Planning for Fall Technical Conference and next year’s JSM.
Stat Testing
- Mark: Verified the Expected Improvement formulas used in the prototype (add-in) for Bayesian optimization with Chris. Modified the PenSim emulator (add-in) to suit the Bayesian optimization workflow and study. Developing a case study for Chris and Phil's upcoming Bayesian optimization workshop.
- Tonya: Recorded a JMP discovery presentation with Mark Bailey. I’ve been updating unit tests due to container changes made by Dan and undo changes made by Xan. Testing the new launch selected processes option in Process Screening. Bug verification.
- Jacob: Testing CSALT Design, writing tests for the Simulator feature
- Testing Categorical, writing tests for the Save Mean Score table and Mean Score Comparisons as Suffix. Verifying Jira tickets and cleaning unit tests.
Life Sciences Updates
- Drew: Implemented distributing Python packages/dependencies in JMP Clinical (yes, only ones that have gone through third-party approval process
) so end-users don't have to hit the internet to download - an issue for many of our users who operate in tightly controlled IT environments. Additionally, this lets us ensure the availability/usage of specific versions that we validate our software against. Fixed an issue in the AE Narrative report which is critical for Amgen's adoption of JMP Clinical 18 as they migrate from 7.1.
- Richard: Put finishing touches on Recurrence Report. Started a report of adverse events and medications that allows for simplified SQL queries through a dialog. Submitted abstracts to Society of Clinical Trials Annual Meeting and
PhUSE US Connect.
Product Management and Product Marketing
- Bryan F: Met with Kristen Slappey to brainstorm ideas to avoid navigating away from the current page when downloading an add-in from the JMP Marketplace. Compiled a comprehensive report detailing all the discoveries and issues identified by 14 internal participants during the JMP Marketplace usability review. During the report development phase, collaborated with Sarah Sylvestre to prioritize the findings. Additionally, discussed HTML5 updates with Dieter, John Powell, and Praveena.
Note from Shannon
I hope all is going well for the students in your lives! My middle schooler goes back on Monday morning…he’s not looking forward to that wake-up call! Have a wonderful weekend!
