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Welcome to the JMP Development Update for October 18, 2024!
Just a reminder that at the end of next week (10/25/24), we will be freezing JMP 19 EA4. Please update your feature pages by Monday 10/28 and have any videos to Mia Stephens by end of the day Tuesday 10/29. I noticed that product management recently sent an email to our JMP 19 early adopters encouraging them to check out the JMP Marketplace. It’s been having a bit of a soft launch in preparation for being highlighted next week at JMP Discovery Summit in Cary.
Many JMP team members have been preparing to present and meet with customers at next week’s conference. Thanks to Mia for creating this page to capture Discovery notes. I’m especially looking forward to seeing customer presentations and talking to people at my poster about how their crash data (and helpful descriptions of what they were doing) can assist us in solving mystery cases!
After my comment about early voting data this morning, JMP Live developer Michael Goff shared this cool JMP Live dashboard that he created to capture public data about early voting sites in Wake County! He says, “I wrote a python refresh script in JMP Live to fetch the Wake Country election data from the board of elections website and create a data table of voting demographics. It should update daily as early voting goes on.” Here’s a peek at the reports he’s published, many with filters so you can explore data by early voting location:
Thanks very much to Tonya Mauldin for sharing this week’s beta/crash cases with crashes selected!
Distributions Report for beta cases for the week of 10/18/2024 | JMP Live
Since we are now on EA3, Tonya has created summary reports for the Pre-EA, EA1 and EA2 combined data: JMP 19 EA Summary Reports | JMP Live The EA data is also available in Perforce under main/test/EA Data/19. Here is a treemap of the subtopics for EA cases so far. There are many more available reports in JMP Live at the link above so check it out!
General Announcements
- FYI that SAS is going to be migrating from Cisco Secure VPN (formerly AnyConnect) to a new VPN software called GlobalProtect VPN. This is not happening just yet, but will be happening soon and naturally will impact users who connect to the SAS network from off campus. For more details, see this CIS article.
- Please visit the Dev update section on Inside JMP to see past updates.
- Please reach out to me or Beth Evans if you’d like to be added to the JMP Dev list to receive future copies of the update via email as well as future JMP Dev meeting invites.
Important Upcoming Dates
- JMP 19 EA4 Code Freeze – 10/25/2024
- 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
- JMP 19.0 First String Handoff – 12/2/24
- Please visit Confluence for a full list of JMP 18 and JMP 19 dates.
JMP Development Updates
Interactive HTML
- John Powell: Updated the marker tooltip for the Logistic platform to display the Y value rather than the position of the point on the left side scale(JMPHTML-14161). Updated bubble plot to redraw bubbles if a change to the X or Y Aggregation Option requires updating the scale (JMPHTML-14170). Working on supporting Force Labels for the marker segment(JMPHTML-13712). Created an issue for Force Labels Axis setting getting lost when Redoing Analysis or saving a script (JMP-23457). Meetings to discuss the use of story points.
- Mike Stickles: Almost completed work on JMPHTML-1407 (Legend setting on size role does not work on HTML5); doing some final cleanup and testing before pushing it up for review. Incidentally fixed JMPHTML-13684 (Max items in legend is ignored) and apparently also fixed JMPHTML-13866 (Legend layout differs with wrap = 2) while working on it, those fixes will be part of the changes for 1407. These changes only include the primary size role – separate markers for each size. Size roles displayed in the legend using nested markers will be made a separate JIRA ticket; currently these are displayed using the old double-semicircle icon.
- Praveena: Worked on matching alphanumeric sorting as per JMP (JMPHTML-14066). Reached out to Audrey and Josh regarding test plan for UI changes. Met with Shannon Leslie and John Powell to discuss Story pointing and other agile process.
JMP Live
- Aurora: Control chart warning improvements (loads of fruitful meetings, visual improvements to downloaded warning history and to warning email). Whitebox testing.
- Michael Goff: Participated in whitebox testing day for JMP Live and continuing to work on control chart triage client work.
- Adrianna: Working on Jiras related to a new feature – data depending on other data – and Whitebox testing.
Statistics
- Laura L: Fixed some bugs and also implemented the following two new features for JMP 19:
- Annie: Last week, I attended the Fall Technical Conference along with fellow JMP employees Ryan Lekivetz, Yang Sanchi, Di Michelson, Michael Crotty, Peng Liu and Caleb King. I enjoyed the opportunity to interact with many JMP customers including Julia O’Neill, folks from Eastman, Regeneron and many academics. The talk I gave with Di Michelson and Bill Woodall was very well received. This week, I’ve been working on my JMP Discovery Roadmap session.
- Laura C-S: Finished writing and testing an SEM add-in for a customer request in the community for functionality we don’t yet have. Volunteered at Burkett Farm. Investigating a bug with multiple-group analysis’ starting values. Met with UNC researchers to guide them on using the SEM platform for a manuscript. Provided feedback for an internship applicant. Started to prepare demo for Ken Bollen.
- John Sall: In Design Space Profiler, work on "Reset Factor Space" and axis changes (JMP-23421).
Stat Documentation
- Michael C: Attended Fall Technical Conference last week, where I was part of the program committee, moderated a session, and organized/led a panel discussion in the closing session of the conference. Attended some management training classes. Cleaned up some outdated terminology in some UI strings and documentation. Helped Qiana interview candidates for a technical editor position.
- Hamid: Worked on developing the SEM example for measurement invariance across groups and time (JMP-22566). Reviewed JMP-23100 and JMP-22574 to determine if they impact publications. Met with Laura C-S regarding multi-group measurement invariance shortcut in SEM. Volunteered at Burkett Farm and planted A LOT of strawberries.
Stat Testing
- Haley: Last week, attended FTC and enjoyed the talks and networking opportunities. This week, worked with Laura Castro-Schilo on abstracts for our SEM session at JSM next year, which was accepted as an invited session. Wrote tests to evaluate the MIIV estimator on SEMs with fixed regression paths and/or factor loadings.
- Mark: Investigated the impact of changing the JMP style sheets (JSS( on Easy DOE with Jacob. Researching the new IndPenSim 2 simulation of a fed-batch penicillin production process to replace the original PenSim simulator. Installed Octave as a substitute for Matlab. Learning Octave to run IndPenSim.
- Jacob: Performance testing, updating analysis scripts and investigating potential issues. Investigating unit test failures. Exploring Easy DOE using JMP Style Sheets with Mark.
- Tonya: Working on beta reporting, meeting about various Control Chart Builder issues, working with Joseph to be a panelist for his Discovery session, and cleaning up and rewriting unit tests.
Life Sciences Updates
- Richard: Completed preliminary Dynamic Survival report. Will demo at development meeting on 11/14. Got a short course Data Visualization with Applications to the Life Sciences into the American Statistical Association’s Council of Chapters Traveling Course Program in 2025. Rebecca Lyzinski and I will give the course up to 6 times to different student and regional chapters of statisticians and data scientists throughout the United States. The full day format of the course will include 2 hours of Graph Builder goodness.
- Drew: Prepared for Discovery plenary participation. Added features/bug fixes to JMP Clinical 18.2/19.0. Added utility functions to test suite to support the work Geoff is doing in providing additional IQ/OQ/PQ support to JMP Clinical customers.
- Wenjun: FDA is starting to test vendors’ software on cloud. They just contacted me again to make sure that JMP/ JMP Clinical can be included. I ccd Valerie and Ted to answer their licensing questions.
Technical Support and Engagement
Technical Support Case Volume by week:
Case Topics for Technical Support queue, last week:
Engagement Support Case Volume by week:
Case Topics for Engagement queue, last week:
Development Operations
- Bob: Finished work adding new font to version 19.0 Windows installers (JMP-21785). Updated JMP Student Edition 18.2 installer for Windows to include the Student Addin, which is same addin as offered on JMP Marketplace (JMP-23135).
- Shannon: Continued looking into DNCs, timeouts and crashes in the UT runs in collaboration with testers. Reviewed Audrey’s new additions to JSL Test Timing reports in JMP Live including a new graph of Crash, DNC and Timeout History that shows recent progress made in reducing such issues across our various tracks. Still a work in progress but thanks to all for helping get these resolved. Investigated a few internal JMP 19 crash tracks.
Localization
- Allison: Validated 18.0 and 18.1 localized JMP Documentation pdfs and handed off to QA for testing; reported issues found by QA in the localized pdfs and asked DTP to fix; handed off verified JMP Documentation pdfs to Marketing; worked on drafting V19 localization quote templates to send to vendors for input.
- Trish: Coordinated with Kyoko Takenaka on JMP Marketplace translations; downloaded localized JMP Documentation add-ins from Marketplace as sanity check now that it’s “live”. Working on schedules and coordinating resources for V19 localization work. Finished up HR related tasks for Q3.
- Krzysztof: Handling JMPLive translation returns for 18.2. Testing new automation features and apps (QCommit, TM Search). Documenting and cleaning up scripts and process for MT translation of Marketplace Addin descriptions (pre- and post- processing of files).
- Sohail: Implemented security patches for TM Search interface including rate limiting to protect against DOS attacks and query parametrization to protect against SQL injection attacks. Continued work on LLM research about tokenizers and different architectures.
- Howard: Update Dashboard API and documentation. Continue Dashboard Jira integration project. Finalize translation push test. Start researching vendors query system integrating with Jira.
- Sandy: Commit job automation of new source to P4. Testing push function for dashboard.
Documentation
- Susan C: Updating dates and tasks on process Jiras. Generating JMP Live 18.2 English help. Noticed that the copyright date was incorrect, so getting that fixed before generating other languages. Planning for retrospective fixes to JMP Live help. Planning for 18.1.1 RNs. Reviewing non-stat UI strings for October. Working on Jira for text insets across books.
- Qiana: Watched The Essentials of Graph Builder - JMP User Community. Tech Editor interview and follow-up activities. Created Jiras for the FM update to version 16.0.6. Revised FrameMaker Update to 16.0.6. Triaged old Jiras. Updated Confluence pages to point to the new help build machine. Project planning and coordination.
- Khawar: Essential Graphing: updated images; got feedback from Devon and Susan; fixed the text insets issue. Sample index: Finished adding content to the spreadsheet. Oxygen: Shared the image callouts update in the Oxygen meeting. Updated FrameMaker to 16.0.6.
- Devon: Continued work on converting a Chinese version of our Discovering JMP chapter from FrameMaker to XML for the L10N team to review and continuing JSL course.
System/Host Testing-Cary
- Mandy: More triage of New Data table, tags, and worked some on changes developer made for Tabulate; had a corrupt table issue from Tech Support that Evan brilliantly helped me/them with and we got the repaired table handed back to the user – turned out to be a known issue with table variables – but the user was sort of abusing JSL to make Table Vars. Sat in on a dry run of a DS paper for next week, involving Workflow builder and helped them out – since they had an import issue – which ended up being a change to the import wizard that was intentional. Next week – Discovery and working some on a presentation I will do in one of the roadmap rooms.
- Nick H: Working on fixing a bug where maintenance branches are not correctly marking known issues due to jiraIssuesStatus.jmp not being updated nightly for those branches. Fixed a bug with the failure file link opening the console log incorrectly that was introduced after pushing my recent changes preparing for our new retention policy.Working on finishing up 19.0 padding/margin verifications while continuing to clean up new and old failing unit tests in our nightly runs. Also helping Mandy with some data table verifications.
- Hunter: Installed and authorized the JMP Student Edition 18.2 for this first time, testing several authorization issues, investigated two JMP 19 EA 3 cases, and documented many of the remaining dark mode icon issues on Windows.
Web Testing – Cary
- Anna: Verifying fixes for HTML5, JMP Live & JMP. Testing latest changes Paul S has made for resizing of charts in HTML5/JMP Live. Adding reports to JMP 19.0 HTML5 Readiness page. Josh has moved page to new location. Will send updated link again. Finishing verifications for last JMP Marketplace issues.
System/Host Testing-Beijing
Core
- Dan S: Fixed issue with file prompts when closing a Project. Triaging newTopName/newTopString issues. Added option to stretch width of Data Filter in a splitter layout. Working on stretching for the filter in a Data Table grid.
- Xan: Added prefs for Graph Builder’s extend-to-zero logic (EA feedback); axis tick labels, SEM text truncation
- Evan: Working on supporting emoji text rendering on Windows. Working on Mimic and tests using Mimic with Mike Muhlada.
- Dave B: Updating Add-In Builder, better text placement for number and edit boxes.
DOE and Reliability
- Caleb: Preparing for JMP Discovery and fixing a few more Sample Size Explorer bugs. Looking forward to seeing everyone next week!
Hosting and Interfaces
- Paul Nelson:
- Working for the past couple of weeks on R Integration via Python and R using rpy2. Started with figuring out how to make the R connection via just Python scripts and creating Python functions that were analogous to the original JSL R interface. Next was an attempt replace the JSL entry points with a JSL user defined functions calling through to the Python functions. Limitations of user defined functions meant such a solution would break the majority of existing JSL R scripts.
- This week, restoring the R integration entry points within JMP in C++, but making the calls via Python and rpy2 instead of connecting via SAS Tk. JMP-23469. Still some work to go but most of the functionality is back in place.
Note from Shannon
Thanks to Mike Stickles for sharing this meme! He says his family circulated it on their group chat during the CrowdStrike debacle. :smiling_face_with_smiling_eyes:
Hope you all have a great weekend!
