Welcome to the JMP Development Update for September 20, 2024!
With ~5 weeks to go before JMP 18.1.1 is planned to freeze, please be on the lookout for major showstopper bugs impacting JMP source code that cannot wait to be fixed in 18.2. Security champions are reviewing the latest Snyk scan results to identify any Critical or High vulnerabilities that would require third party library updates in the 18.1.1 dot-dot release track. As a reminder, JMP development managers must approve all changes prior to integration into 18.1.1, and any fix requests must fall into one of the following categories: security fixes to third party libraries, serious numeric bugs, widespread crashes, and major issues holding up deployment of JMP at important customer sites.
We have now reached our freeze date for JMP 19 EA3! Jim will be branching code and creating installers for testing next week. Thanks to everyone for updating your JMP 19 feature pages! As a reminder, feature page updates are due by Monday 9/23 at 9 am, and videos are due to Mia by the end of the day on Tuesday 9/24.
Speaking of new JMP 19 features, David White presented on the new JMP 19 data grid at the JMP Dev meeting on Thursday. If you missed the live session, you can find a recording here. Thanks very much for the active chat and feedback shared during the meeting – I know Dave and Mandy (who’s been testing this and other new table features) very much appreciated it!
Thanks very much to Tonya Mauldin for sharing this week’s beta tracks with crashes selected!
JMP Beta Report for the week of 9/20/2024 | JMP Live
General Announcements
Important Upcoming Dates
- JMP 19 EA3 Code Freeze – 9/20/24 ß TODAY
- 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
Statistics
- Jianfeng: Working on supporting PCA of mixed data which was requested by Dow Chemical (JMP-23063). The work has not been completed yet but progress has been made. The loading plot below shows the blue loading lines for categorical variable and red loading lines for continuous variables.
- Elizabeth: Wrapped up work on the stability analysis/shelf-life feature in Mixed. Huge thanks to Dan Schikore for his help with the legend! There will likely be future refinements, but this gets us started with mixed model-based shelf-life estimation. Thanks to Mike Anderson for pushing for this feature!
- Annie: Finished work on Jira JMP-8247, with help from Xan and Ernest. Worked on my Discovery Summit Roadmap presentation. Did a practice run for my Fall Technical Conference presentation with Bill Woodall and Di Michelson.
- Laura C-S: Had a well-received presentation at UNC that led to committing to another presentation for a larger audience in the spring 2025. Preparing another SEM demo for Case Western University this Monday with an emphasis on health outcomes. Doing small-sample analyses with real data using MIIV-2SLS to identify ways to improve the report. Fixed a handful of bugs in SEM.
- John Sall: Continuing Recurrence improvements (JMP-22940). Partition now includes Lock Columns in saved script (JMP-22946).
Stat Documentation
- Michael: Completed Q3 check-in conversations with my team; reviewed new SEM examples and doc content for Hamid; worked on SI updates with Colleen; cleaned up tracked edits in various books in preparation for EA3 help build.
- Karen: Working on updates to the categorical chapter, almost done!
Stat Testing
- Mark: Completed prototype of Bayesian optimization as a n add-in for Chris to use at ENBIS workshop after addressing some bugs and adding new features. Implementing a new form of expected improvement formula to address BO for multiple responses. Assisting Jacob with closing tickets for DOE assertion failures.
- Jacob: Testing CSALT Design. Adding more tests for the Simulator. Testing DOE debug issues. Investigating potential performance issues. Verifying Jira tickets and cleaning unit tests.
Life Sciences Updates
- Richard: Dynamic survival report. Data viz presentation for George Washington University Biostatistics Center.
Product Management and Product Marketing
- Bryan F: Shared HTML5 prototype with HTML5 team as an example of layout changes need to replicate look-and-feel of Vuetify 3 tree view. Discussed HTML5 font sizing issues with Paul Spychala and Evan McCorkle. Notified Tanya about using EA3 in JMP Lab. Provided Ernest Pasour with icon list parameters for theming and specifications. Collaborated with Sarah Sylvestre on JMP Lab testing at Discovery Summit. Requested John Schroedl and Michael Hecht to help resolve default spacing conflict at host level.
Technical Support and Engagement
- Wendy:
- Several members of Tech Support participated in Discovery Summit Online and staffed Meet the Experts sessions. It sounds like the event was a big success!
- The Engagement team is participating in a project to improve the restricted party screening (RPS) experience.
- Case topics for Engagement are shown below. As per usual, the top 3 topics by case volume for Tech Support last week were installation, authorization, and crashes.
- 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
- Myron: Updating PHP and related components on jmptool (JMPTOOL-1353). Identified large test failures to potentially remove from test database (JMPTOOL-1367). Continue to work on/review results of Stringbot on AWS for main/19 in preparation for migrating runs to AWS jmptool in October.
- Jim: Multiple Mac OS system updates/upgrades. Updating unit test process scripts; installed Oracle ODBC driver on multiple WinOS UT machines. Reported numerous ASAN, LEAKS, Icon and HPNM issues in JIRA entries. Preparing for JMP 19 EA3.
- Shannon L: Met with Legal to discuss JMP registration of all EA releases in the SAS Registering Technologies application, and wrapping up export questionnaire. Contacted SAS CIS to ensure our configuration items have technical owners registered in ServiceNow. Updated Jira error dashboard to account for authorization components not needing to require fix versions. This weekend, will update the EA sprint auto-assignment to be the EA4 sprint. Assisted in validation of UT log additions and implemented a Jira improvement to add Developer field to Feature Request and Epic.
- Shannon C: Prep for Q3 conversations. Meetings on several topics including Stringbot migration to AWS, unit test projects, and operational/ performance qualification efforts for JMP Clinical. Worked with testers, Jim and Audrey on unit test timeout/DNC cleanup.
- Nick: Windows system updates for numerous AWS AMIs. Prototype script work for unit test parallelization efforts to allow use of dynamic Jenkins agents instead of static ones.
Localization
- Allison: Provided Kristen up-to-date localized JMP Documentation add-ins and updated screenshots for JMP Marketplace. Researched and responded to queries related to JMP Documentation and UI localization. Validated localized template files for 18.2 JMP Live Help. Delivered localized 18.0 JMP Documentation to Roger to post on jmp.com. Had kick-off meeting with Clinical team to establish workflow process and tracking via Jira for localizing JMP Clinical into Simplified Chinese.
- Trish: Met with JMP Clinical team to review over translation processes. Localized template files for 18.2 JMP Live Help. Planning Jiras created for 19.0 projects. Evaluating earlier handoff date for V19 Portable UI strings (December). Answered translation queries for Marketplace and reviewed Marketplace translations. Researching team building options.
- Sohail: Finished development for initial release of TM Search interface and put together a feedback form for testers to share comments/ideas. Helped setup and deploy the interface onto an external facing machine so translators and others can have access to this resource. Continued with LLM research, explored BLOOM open-source multi-lingual model and underlying architecture.
- Krzysztof: Working with Marketing on improving the quality of MT output for add-in descriptions. Designing and testing new L10N automation functionalities. Mirroring TM Search up on jmptransweb (external facing machine). Continuing investigation of LLM solution for localization tasks.
- Howard: Finishing translation push testing. Standardized Dashboard API. Re-designed Dashboard message logging.
- Sandy: Continuing work on file validation program for image diff job. Tested push function on project creation dashboard.
Documentation
- Khawar: Essential Graphing: went through the issues highlighted for JMP 17 and 18 and reviewed those in JMP 19. Got feedback and help from Qiana and will work on resolving the issues. Sample Index: Adding content to a spreadsheet tracking issues and questions. Oxygen: Played a bit with SnagIt to add steps/callouts.
- Qiana: Reviewed resumes and HireVue interviews for editor position. Worked on a writing sample “test” for contract editor candidates. Worked on the doc retention policy. Met with Tom and Susan to discuss updates and corrections needed to the GA book. Project planning and coordination.
System/Host Testing-Cary
- Mandy: Testing new table grid, writing up Jira issues, retesting, and verifying; and finding more issues to report. :smiling_face_with_smiling_eyes:. Glad to help the developers so much with this and hoping that if a user finds something, it might match up to known problems. Worked on data a bit – using Workflow and trying the new grid – hoping to use a fun example for EA3 videos I need to make – one for Column Tags in 19, with the new grid, one with Workflow builder and the new Find/Replace dialog that you can use to edit a workflow more efficiently. Need to write up those examples, a journal and update the feature pages.
- Hunter: Investigated a CRP and opened a JIRA for a JMP 18.0 regression with data views saved in projects. Responded to several Mac Sequoia and BeyondTrust issues following the release of Sequoia 15.0 this week. Installed Sequoia 15.1 Dev. Beta 4 on the Intel host testing Mac mini “macbeta1x86” in the lab and ran some tests. Reviewed more localized documentation PDF files.
- Mike M: Busy week updating Sikuli tests for me to understand any new issues related to the new Data Grid. Opened 3 new defects for HTML ‘Fit to Window’ not working with anchored annotations, CCB interactive failure found with Sikuli test, and JSL namespace failure. There are many more tests to update with the new grid.
- Audrey: Troubleshooting issues with the Sequoia rollout, investigating SQL/ODBC issues on Mac, reviewing JSL test timing data and making incremental progress on our project to parallelize our UT runs.
Web Testing – Cary
- Natalie: Continued with HTML5 automation updates for various UI changes. Our passing numbers have improved this week. Completed a prototype testcase to include the new Fit to Window feature into our automation framework.
- Anna: Testing Marketplace Add-Ins with Kristen. Verifying Paul S’s new resize feature implementation for HTML5 and JMP Live. Reported axis display issues for HTML5.
System/Host Testing-Beijing
Core
- Dan S: More work on rememberInitialState() to reduceSendToReport() messages when using Visual Styling themes. Also fixed some related issues introduce recently. Additional styling for Outline Box disclosure icon. Updated some strings in Dashboard Builder to improve usability of filters.
- Morgan: Pushed the markup lexer (still working on the extended markup support in TextDisplay), some minor bug fixing for Notebooks, and I’m working on a new, functional navigation tree, block selection, and undo actions for Notebooks.
- Xan: Finding and preparing data for upcoming Statistically Speaking talk.
- Evan: Progress on making the Data Table left panel more flexible.
DOE and Reliability
- Caleb: This week I officially made the conversion for the two sample mean explorers. They are currently hidden behind an activation script until testing is complete. Also fixed some other sample size explorer bugs and a few CSALT simulator ones as well. Got to attend some of Discovery online this week. Had a lot of interest in the DOE Meet the Experts session!
Hosting and Interfaces
- Will: The S3 data connector now has more explicit and fool-proof user input validation. I am currently working on changing the behavior of the default values for the SharePoint data connector to make it a bit more intuitive to use and testing my changes to make sure everything is still working well.
Interactive HTML
- John Powell: Added support for Weight(size) role in Interactive HTML Scatterplot 3D (JMPHTML-14094). Working on support for Nominal columns on the X, Y, or Z axis of Scatterplot 3D (JMPHTML-14112). Fixed an issue with reading the data level for Nominal columns. Fixed an issue where NaN was being displayed for the color role in map tooltips (JMPHTML-14100). Discussed graphlet support on JMP Live with Jared, then with Michael Senoyuit. Met with Praveena, Paul S. and Bryan F to discuss the JMP Live theme. Met with Aaron to discuss supporting John Sall’s Process Screening Browser on JMP Live.
- Paul Spychala: We added support for Graph Builder Fit to Window (height) in HTML (JMPHTML-14082), so now we support resizing width and height. Initial support added for CrosstabDisplay in HTML (JMPHTML-988). Added support for Control Chart Builder Fit to Window in HTML (JMPHTML-14095).
- Praveena: Control Chart Warnings - Worked on supporting interactivity between warnings panel and the report& addressed related bugs. Refactor Distribution menu options to support multiple platforms
- Michael Senoyuit: Worked on getting “Order By Count” working for MR data filters and fleshing out IndexArray Columns.
JMP Live
- Aurora: Control chart warning improvements (tweaks and bug fixes, organized and added to Confluence articles, prep for Discovery lightning talk). Third party package updates.
Note from Shannon
Hope you all have a great weekend!
