Welcome to the JMP Development Update for November 8, 2024!
Hopefully you all saw Myron Chandler’s note that this weekend, Stringbot on the main branch will begin running in AWS. As Myron noted in his email, Stringbot main is migrating from our existing SAS infrastructure (jmptool.na.sas.com) to our JMP AWS space (in this case, jmptoolprod.dev.jmp.com). If all goes well, you shouldn’t notice any real difference, and you should receive the same emails you have always received from Stringbot if your strings in main need attention. If you notice any issues, please report them in JMPTOOL-1183 so we can track and investigate them.
JMP 18.2 will continue to run on jmptool.na.sas.com as we complete work on that branch. Today (11/8/24) is the JMP 18.2 string freeze for developers. Writers will be evaluating strings for consistency next week. Please keep in mind that our first JMP 19 string freeze for developers will be on 12/2/24. Please work with a writer if you need early assistance refining your strings!
JMP 19 EA4 is in the final testing phases after a Python update was required to resolve security flaws in our existing Python version. Thanks to Paul Nelson, Jim Borek, Bob Hickey and QA teams in Cary and Beijing for all the fixes and testing efforts this week! QA expects to sign off on JMP 19 EA4 very early next week.
JMP 18.1.1 was also rebuilt to incorporate these updated Python files. 18.1.1 installer testing efforts are underway and looking good so far! Now that 18.1.1 is frozen, 18.1.2 branching tasks are underway. We anticipate early integration of a fix to summary, and JMP Clinical will also have report changes coming for 18.1.2. Of course, we will be on the lookout for any and all required security fixes.
Thanks very much to Caleb King for presenting on his joint JMP-R project at this week’s JMP Dev meeting! Caleb had briefly introduced this topic in the Discovery in person plenary as he talked about the integration but had more time to spend on it with us. If you missed the meeting, you can find a recording here.
Thanks to Tonya Mauldin for sharing this week’s beta/crash cases with crashes selected!
Beta/Crash report for the week of 11/8/2024 | JMP Live
General Announcements
- Giving Tuesday is just around the corner! Here’s an article on Inside SAS detailing many of the ways you can get involved in projects like Tools4Schools and Angel Tree.
Important Upcoming Dates
- JMP 18.2 Developer String Freeze – 11/8/24 ß TODAY
- JMP 18.1.1 QA Signoff – ~11/15/24
- 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
Technical Support and Engagement
- Wendy:
- Case volume has increased again this week for the Engagement team largely due to an increase in RPS submissions from customers. We are working to detect and prevent multiple submissions, which result in duplicate cases. This week approximately 25% of RPS cases were duplicates.
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
- Myron: Worked on JMPTOOL-1183 – set up and run stringbot on AWS, JMPTOOL-1424 – start setting up the crash system on AWS, JMPTOOL-1308 – implement file retention policy for old testbot archive files, and JMPTOOL-1372 – testbot: remove code that checks for old Defects file.
- Bob: EA4 installer creation, testing, creation, testing, creation with python files issues. 18.1.1 Windows installer validation benchmark creation.
- Shannon: Team meetings – great progress on many tooling projects! Continued work with testers on cleaning up DNCs, crashes and timeouts in our nightly runs. Investigated a few mystery crashes – thank you very much to Dave Barbour for help with replication test cases!
Localization
- Allison: Prepared the kit for 18.1.1 Release Notes and handed them off to translation teams for localization; validated KO and ZH 18.0 localized Documentation PDFs and handed off to QA for testing; met with JMP Store team and discussed about possible future localization support; prepared Documentation PDFs for handoff to Doc team for Doc Library creation.
- Trish: Met with the JMP Store development team to discuss their localization process and how our team could assist. Met with JMP Marketplace development team to discuss how we will handle localization updates. Coordinating with reviewers for V19 work. Worked with Susan to triage some JMP Live Help Jiras that impact localization. Gearing up for final handoff of Portable UI strings for 19.0.
- Krzysztof: Working on LLM implementation for localization tasks (term harvesting, term explanations, translation and quality assurance). Processing JMP Clinical translations. Preparing the workflow for new projects. Met with Marketplace dev to discuss localization process for Ui and Add-in descriptions moving forward.
- Howard: Bug fixes. Worked on Jira integration with Translation Query System. Convert backend jobs to Windows service.
- Sandy: Finishing up image diff comparison project including creating appropriate Jenkins jobs. Began looking at enhancements to the commit/return strings processing.
- Sohail: Resolved file download issues for TM Search interface, fixed multilingual search support, explored and compared LLM capabilities for term extraction tasks.
Documentation
- ChrisB: Changed the sitemap script (thanks to John Mosier) to hopefully make Google happier. Updating 18.2 and 19.0 templates and getting them placed correctly. Getting 18.1 Doc add-in on Marketplace. Met with Andretti et al about the new help header and the footer copyright issue (and scraping together JMP copyright information). Trying to figure out versionless help URLs. String reviews.
- Susan C: Generating the JMP Live 18.2 help. Working on JMP Live retrospective fixes, communicating with Trish. Updating, production checking, labelling & handing off the 18.1.1 RNs. Met with Jill (our new editor) to walk through editing processes and resources. Chased up some UI string updates, all complete for October.
- Devon: Worked with Education to provide them a list of all of the examples we have in our documentation with a script to provide the list again for each release, continued working on the test conversion of the Chinese Discovering JMP book for L10N.
- Qiana: Created the Doc Team Jira Board. Began addressing JMP-23261. Project planning and coordination.
System/Host Testing-Cary
- Mandy: Had about 22 JIRA fixes to check and verify; developer pushed the value labels changes for properties - testing that now at 19.0. Did installer testing for EA4 on Mac - checked the I/O error with summary fix too. Working on 18.1.1 installer testing on Mac. Next week, will continue work writing tests for Tags, tabulate move JSL, and workflow builder find replace dialog.
- Nick H: Continued cleanup of unit tests, focusing more on maintenance branches. Verified some calendar box date limit and appearance improvements. Made adjustments to our pathVariables test (used in installer testing) to account for SAS machines now using the OneDrive location as the default location for Documents Desktop. I am also brainstorming how to integrate ongoing mimic work with our existing testing framework.
- Hunter: Finished JMP 19 EA 4 testing on Mac and Windows. Tested and provided feedback with several JMP 19 EA 4 installers during the week for necessary rebuilds. Started JMP 18.1.1 maintenance release testing for my assigned configuration.
- Audrey: EA4 Testing, 18.1.1 Testing. Expected signoff for EA4 is Monday 11/11. Expected signoff for 18.1.1 is on or before Friday 11/15. Doing a little testing on dynamic transform columns with Lisa and Anna.
Web Testing – Cary
- Natalie: Began new development in HTML automation for Control Charts. This week we have more diffs in our daily automation as a result of pushed UI changes for the new JMP Live theme. We will need new image benchmarks. I have these created in my workspace but we will hold off committing these until development is more complete and stable. Began JMP Live install testing for 18.1.1.
- Anna: Investigating TS tracks and reporting Jiras. Verifying documentation updates. Adding new imageDiff tests. Retesting test areas after changes pushed. Learning about Xan’s new comfy transforms.
System/Host Testing-Beijing
Core
- Dan S: Added option to <<
- Dave B: Worked on an add-in that does a better job of catching stack overflow exceptions. Reproduced and fixed a lineseg / clone crash. Possibly reproduced a graph builder crash that causes jmp to go down with no crash files. Reproduced a crash with hover labels and graphs with maps.
- Morgan: Split script editor preferences page into tabs. Added visible whitespace preference for script editor. Moved the snippets editor from its modal dialog to the main preferences menu.
- Ernest: Refactored Value Labels property internally. Ask me if you have questions about the changes, particular the way platforms create labeled columns.
- Xan: Stat Speaking and CCB axis sorting.
DOE and Reliability
- Caleb: Continued with bug fixing on the explorers. I also gave a dev talk on my MSA project that I mentioned in the plenary. So far I’ve been getting great feedback!
- Irene: Investigating a few Jira tickets, working on research project, learned a little more about Easy DOE from Joseph.
Hosting and Interfaces
- Will: Working on the SharePoint Data Connector. I am working on offering an option for users to utilize a JMP hosted authorization server in Azure, so they don’t have to create their own. Hopefully, this will streamline the user experience for those who are less technically inclined. I have also added some bug fixes for the SharePoint connector and been doing some work on the Data Connector editor, making it a little easier to use.
- Paul N: JMP-23700 – add error checking to inputs to jpip() so for consistent output. JMP-23662 – Security Update of Python from 3.11.9 (Python.org binary) to 3.11.10 compiled from source as 3.11 is now in security maintenance mode only. JMP 18.1.1, 18.2, 19 EA4, 19.0. JMP-23737 – Begin work moving JMP 19.0 to Python 3.13.0 which still should be in active support when JMP 19 ships.
- John Schroedl: Updated to latest Telerik source in 18.2 and 19.0. Crash investigations and Visual Studio help. Worked with Evan on DWrite text drawing effort. Pushed host tree control changes related to color modes and updated styling. Starting on styling changes for menus.
Interactive HTML
- John Powell:
- Added support to display X and Y values of the mean point of ellipses in the Interactive HTML tooltip (JMPHTML-2035).
- Detect and display a localized message when Interactive HTML files are opened/previewed in an environment where JavaScript is disabled (MS Teams, SharePoint, Outlook, …) (JMPHTML-13541)
- Investigated and issue that occurs on JMP Live when a user makers local data filter selection then modifies the local data filter in the regeneration script (JMPHTML-14201).
- Started looking at supporting export/publish options for Process Screening (JMPHTML-14209).
- Started experimenting with suppressing the “not interactive” tooltip while still providing some affordance that the graph is static and will not respond to other changes in the report(JMPHTML-13846).
- Mike Stickles: Completed and pushed work on issue JMPHTML-13685 (Legend for graph with Size role doesn’t match JMP); still need to set up acceptance criteria for testers. Continuing work on JMPHTML-13966 (Word Cloud selections not working correctly) and JMPHTML-13982 (Implement selection capability in Text Explorer term lists) which should complete implementation of Word Clouds in HTML5.
JMP Live
- Aurora: Control chart warning improvements (disable certain actions when report is warnings-disabled, change sorting of warnings in report Warnings panel / email / downloads, filing Jiras for suggestions from Florence Kussener). Third party package updates. Cleaning up obsolete branches for the team. Investigating errors seen with publish of multi-GB data table. Helped Eric just a bit with his investigation into memory issues on JMP Live Sales.
Statistics
- Laura C-S: Participated in an interview for a stat dev candidate, fixed a bug for identifying whether the mean of a latent variable is estimable, found a crash with multiple group analysis and fixed it, started working on a new feature for estimating specific indirect effects. Met with Haley to discuss testing and met with Caleb to discuss MSA applications.
- John Sall: In Process Screening - support missing values in Grouping categories (JMP-23706). In Profiler, do some initial drafts of an optimization control panel (JMP-22406). Reading and discussing with others about "Environmental Monitoring" with zero-inflated negative binomial data.
- Elizabeth: Researched a crash in SVM with KFold validation that was reported by a user to tech support. Identified the culprit bit of code and have fixed for 19. Waiting on verification before pushing to 18.2. (JMP-23716).
Stat Documentation
- Michael C: Completed first pass through Scripting Index updates for entries in the sub-categories under Fit Least Squares; reviewed a new SEM example for Hamid; fixed a couple doc Jiras in RSM.
Stat Testing
- Mark: Installed MATLAB with much help from Nicole and Audrey (thanks). Learning MATLAB. Debugging MATLAB scripts used in the IndPenSim 2 simulator.
- Tonya: Testing the new grouping feature in the Manage Limits platform and the new normal probability plot in Process Capability.
Life Sciences Updates
- Drew: Triage bugs/features for JMPC 18.2 and 19. Provide support for the validation work that Geoff is adding to JMPC.
Note from Shannon
Hope you have a chance to do some of the things that you enjoy most this weekend! Have a great one!
