Welcome to the JMP Development Update for November 15, 2024!
As of this afternoon, JMP QA is signed off for JMP 18.1.1 for JMP, JMP Pro, JMP Clinical and JMP Live. Thank you to all the many people involved in the creation and testing of this release! Installers will be released in MyJMP by next Tuesday, 11/19. As a reminder, the primary focus of JMP “dot-dot” releases is to update third party libraries to resolve known security vulnerabilities. A secondary focus is to resolve critically important bugs in source code, especially items that may hold up deployment of JMP at important customer sites. In the JMP 18.1.1 cycle, we resolved 18 Jira issues across various projects. Release notes for 18.1.1 are posted on jmp.com.
JMP 19 EA4 was released to customers in MyJMP earlier this week. If you know customers who are not currently in the program but would be willing to provide feedback on new features, please send them to jmp.com/earlyadopter to sign up for the program. EA5 will be coming up very soon – it’s currently planned to freeze on 12/6. Now is a good time to triage your remaining Jira issues and remove 19.0 from Planned version for any items that you know you will not work on in this feature cycle. Also, please make sure that work you do intend to complete in JMP 19 is represented in Jira. And if you have new features that you’ll want tested in upcoming EAs that don’t have feature pages yet, please add them under the JMP 19 features section using the instructions on this how-to page.
Speaking of JMP 19, JMP Clinical developer Richard Zink presented recent work at this week’s JMP Dev meeting. Richard showed a very cool interactive version of a survival report that leveraged lots of JMP functionality to fulfill a customer wish. If you missed the meeting, you can find the recording here.
Thanks to Shannon Leslie for sharing the most recent Atlassian news:
On November 12, Atlassian rolled out changes to our Jira and Confluence Cloud sites. A list of relevant changes along with highlighted details and documentation can be found here.
The changes include:
- Confluence folders have been added for better organization
- Jira issues can be created directly in your Jira project calendar
In addition, next week the Atlassian admin team will be rolling out a configuration change to many Jira projects: editing issue Resolution on closed issues! See details here. (ß This was highly requested by those of us who frequently have to reopen items to change resolution values! :smiling_face_with_smiling_eyes:)
Contact Shannon Leslie or any of the other JMP Atlassian admins with questions.
Thanks to Tonya Mauldin for sharing this week’s beta/crash report with crashes selected!
Beta/crash report for the week of 11/15/2024 | JMP Live
General Announcements
- As the holiday season approaches, SAS is again partnering with the Salvation Army for their Angel Tree program! Thanks to Mandy Chambers for sharing the following details:
- This year, we’ve raised our commitment to a new milestone, sponsoring 400 children in need, aiming to make their holidays brighter, warmer, and filled with joy. The Angel Tree program is one of those initiatives that reminds us of the power of community and kindness. Each sponsored “angel” represents a child who might otherwise face a holiday without the joy and warmth many of us are fortunate to experience. By participating, you’ll be helping to create lasting memories and ensure that these children have a reason to smile this holiday season.
- If you want to make a child’s holiday merry and bright, please fill out this form to request an angel(s). Angel Tree gift drop-off will be one day only: Giving Tuesday (Dec. 3) from 8 a.m. until 3 p.m. at the loading dock between LX and LW.
- If you have any questions or are a remote employee eager to join in, please contact Judi Rourke or Lenora Tickle. Judi can also help remote employees participate and make this holiday season unforgettable for all our sponsored angels. Thank you for your continued generosity and for making this season memorable for so many.
- 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 EA5 Code Freeze – 12/6/24
- JMP 18.2 Code Approval Mode – 12/6/24
- JMP 18.2 Code Freeze – 12/20/24
- JMP 18.1.2 Security Freeze – 1/3/25
- JMP 18.1.2 Final Image Candidate – 1/6/25
- JMP 18.1.2 QA Signoff – 1/16/25
- JMP 18.1.2 Release in MyJMP – 1/21/25
- Please visit Confluence for a full list of JMP 18 and JMP 19 dates.
JMP Development Updates
Statistics
- John Sall:
- In Process Screening, use new "Sort by Subgroup(0)" feature when launching Control Chart Builder (JMP-22702). This eliminates the need to generate a new subgrouping column when not sorting by subgroup.
- In the Profiler, add a command "Optimization Control Panel" to make all the optimization controls easier, more accessible. (JMP-23768) The plan was adapted from customer requests, Sam Gardner's proposal, product management discussions, and Chris Gotwalt's roadmap presentation. Laura Lancaster will be finishing the Factor constraints tab.
Stat Documentation
- Michael C: Continued working on Scripting Index updates for Fit Model – Standard Least Squares options; submitted a topic-contributed panel session proposal for JSM 2025; completed a training course on improving productivity; participated in team-building activity with localization and documentation teams.
Stat Testing
- Jacob: Investigating potential performance issues. Cleaning unit tests and investigating failures. Testing using Easy DOE in JMP Projects, with Mark Bailey. Working on a new unit test for DOE with Projects (JMP-9033).
- Haley: Tested changes to the model identification rules in the SEM platform. Added UTs to verify fixes for crashes in multiple groups analysis. Reviewed a paper related to my graduate school research for a quant psych journal.
- Tonya: Testing missing as a valid level in Process Screening and the normal probability plot in Process Capability. Also doing bug verification and unit test updating.
Life Sciences Updates
- Richard: Working on a co-occurrence report the amount of time that adverse events and/or medications are experienced together. Considering a stretch goal of a network plot, which I think I figured out how to pull off appropriately with edge-based covariate information.
- Drew: Build support scripts and add-in for validation tooling Geoff is implementing. JMP Clinical bug fixes and feature work. Prepare 3-line RTF table add-in for the JMP Marketplace.
Technical Support and Engagement
- Wendy:
- This week, we would like to share our appreciation of several JMP developers for their quick help: Clay Barker, Ernest Pasour, and David White!
- Below are the usual graphs for case volume as well as topics for both Tech Support and Engagement. Here are the TS JMP Live reports and the link to the Jira filter showing the tickets reported by Support for the last 14 days.
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
- Melanie:
- Myron: JMPTOOL-1367 – remove old unit test data from database.. JMP versions < 18.0. Working to restore Acrolinx scripting access. JMPTOOL-1308 – clean old unit test text files off jmptool. JMPTOOL-1388, JMPTOOL-1183, .. – update, run, monitor, fix stringbot on AWS.
- Bob: Uploaded EA 4 to My JMP, downloaded and tested all files, then announced release. Creation of scripts to build nightly installers for Windows 18.1.2.
- Jim: JMP 18.1.2 builds and installers; reported new assertion failures for JMP Pro 19; Perforce support.
Localization
- The Documentation and Localization Teams participated in a virtual team building event. “Return to your beloved alma mater, Brookville University, where you’ll revisit the thrills and joys of campus life. On Halloween, things get a little too spooky and Cory Singer winds up dead in a banana suit.” Working together we were able solve this cold case!
- Allison: Worked on estimates for localized V19 JMP/JMP Live Software review work and asked reviewers for quotes; submitted purchase reqs and WO requests for V19 JMP/JMP Live software localization; finalized and validated 18.1.1 Release Notes and handed off to Marketing to post on JMP site; sent out 18.2 Portable UI strings to vendors for localization; prepared kit for 18.2 Menu Description Card updates for localization.Sandy: Researched possible bug for file validation that is run automatically after source populate job. Finished up standalone Jenkins job for image diff file validation . Adding file validation after image diff in same job as new step. Continued work on commit job enhancements. Created Jenkins test job for commit so it is easier to test.
- Krzysztof: Helping with launching PortableUI 18.2 for translation. Helping with launching and processing Release Notes and Menu Description Cards localization projects. Continued research on LLM. Working on a localizability study for JMP Store.
- Trish: Reviewed budget numbers for 2025 for localization costs that were forecasted in May, made adjustments and submitted to Shannon. Project and staffing planning for V19 continues. Participated in team building event with the Documentation teams.
- Sohail: Continued prompt engineering and optimizing for term extraction tasks using local and online models. Began evaluation script to score extracted terms from LLMs following different benchmarks.
Documentation
- Khawar: Essential Graphing: Identified 3 more issues and fixed those; All issues are not “Accepted and Closed”; Reached out to Jim to get access to older versions. Sample index: Finished working on major issue pages on Confluence. Created a Confluence Page with instructions on adding images to an FM file.
- ChrisB: Discussions about copyright years in the footer, versionless URLs, and how to improve search results. Got the WebWorks templates updated, in the correct place, and the instructions updated. Helped solve a murder. Trying to verify/clarify the instructions for translated help builds (and that they work on the AWS machine).
- Qiana: Updated the JMP 18.2 menu description cards. Participated in discussions about version-less JMP help URL and making the Pubs Affected and RN Affected fields required.
- Susan C: Working on JMP Live 18.2 help generation. Worked with Roger to get the 18.1.1 RNs published. Planning for JMP Live retrospective fixes.
- Devon: JMPDOC-2308: Handed off Chinese and English versions of XML versions of Discovering JMP book to L10N, planning docs for 19 with the JMP 19 Single Source Document page and Jiras.
System/Host Testing-Cary
- Mandy: Finished 18.1.1 installer testing. Followed up on a TS tracks and opened necessary JIRA’s even though we could not replicate the crashes. Volunteered to test the new VPN, Global Protect and recruited others in JMP to join me, as they only had one person testing it out – so far it is working pretty well for about 3 days from my Mac – I did see a comment from a windows person that Outlook would not load. Found an odd JSL Framework crash with columns manager, and was able after many attempts to find a reliable way to reproduce it on the Mac running a series of tests at least 3 times – opened a JIRA issue. Verifying JIRAs, data table fixes, tabulate crashes, etc. Testing Ernest’s value Label fixes at 18.2 and 19.0 – this will work with Tags, but have not gotten into how exactly yet. Starting yesterday and today to get some JMP19EA4 tracks to report issues.
- Hunter: Completed JMP 18.1.1 installer testing. Reviewed the JMP 18.2 menu description cards for Mac and Windows for Qiana. Tested the 24w49 SAS Download Manager 3.12 on several Mac configurations for the SAS 9 Deployment group. Investigated and opened issue with JMP terminating on Windows when opening specific project file from remote shared folder.
- Audrey: EA4 finalizing, 18.1.1 Testing, updating automated jobs to account for the new 18.1.2 branch (and debugging a few things that didn’t go right the first time), and playing with the new VPN from SAS called GlobalProtect (it works pretty well!).
Web Testing – Cary
- Hui: Tested HTML5 support for Multiple Response on Local Data Filter. Tested supports on Any, Every, and At Least conditions. Reported an issue with At Least in JMPHTML-14210. Thanks Michael for the fix! Tested JMP Live Installer 18.1.1. Thanks Josh for helping to go through the process!
- Natalie: 18.1.1 JMP Live Installer testing. Triage for unexpected HTML automation failures due to chrome.exe and chrome driver update.
- Anna: Adding new automated tests. Initial 18.1.1 installer testing. Verifications of HTML5 and JMP graph builder fixes.
System/Host Testing-Beijing
- Beijing Team:
- Da Li: (1) Verify and close 2 JMP bugs. Verify and close 4 JMP Live bugs. (2) Nightly run UT failure investigation and fix. (3) DONE: JMP 19.0 EA4 testing (4) DONE: JMP Clinical 18.1.1 installer testing.
- Nan Wu: (1) JMP 18.x and 19.0 bug verification testing. (2) JMP 19.0 EA 4 testing done – JMPTESTBJ-3188. (3) JMP 18.1.1 installer testing in progress - JMPTESTBJ-3193. (4) Investigation and provided feedback on recent unit test DNC issue, and provided feedback: JMPTEST-1495, JMPTEST-1494.
- Kimi: (1) Bug verification. (2) Reply Haley’s Team message about python connect to R, she is the tester for the SEM platform. (3) JMP 19.0 EA4 Testing, details refer to JMPTESTBJ-3188 – Done. (4) JMP 18.1.1 Testing, details refer to JMPTESTBJ-3193 – Done. (5) JMP-23662: Security Update of Python to 3.11.10 – Done. (6) Python – NF: JMP-23620: Make Python Get(data_frame) use Portable Dataframe Protocol instead of CSV – In Progress. (7) Debug UT failures: Fix some failures for Python and SAS new changes. DNCs occur in less Daily UT machines, but got no idea what the root cause is, both Jim and Nick do nothing on these machines. (8) Publish and refresh report with sas/viya source script, details refer to JMPTESTBJ-3208. (9) Debug the viya refresh issue on Beijing VMs: INC3631142 | Incident | ServiceNow. RITM0909797 | Requested Item | ServiceNow – Done, login with carynt\brdstg in Beijing VMs now can connect to SAS and viya server in sas.com domain. (10) CCW – NF: JMPTESTBJ-3159: Sanity check various JMP report types for JMP Live CCW compatibility – Done. WEBJMP-9314: Deselecting a marker in the Warnings panel list should also deselect that marker in the report - Done. (11) Jenkins: Check results for Beijing Daily UT. E-mail to Denial Powell for authorize issues.
- Da Zhang: (1) Bug verification. (2) Sanity check various JMP report types for JMP Live CCW compatibility – JMPTESTBJ-3192 – DONE. (3) Add more E2E tests in SAS Data Connector – JMPTESTBJ-3207 – DONE. (4) JMP Live 18.1.1 installer testing – JMPTEST-1484 – DONE. (5) JMP 19.0 EA4 installer testing JMPTESTBJ-3188 – DONE.
- Lily Meng: (1) Bug verification. (2) JMP 19.0 EA 4 testing - DONE. (3) JMP 18.1.1 installer testing - DONE
- Nala: (1) Bug Verification. (2) JMP Clinical 19 EA4 Installer Testing - done. (3) JMP 18.1.1 installer testing - DONE (4) Investigating DNC issues in the nightly run framework. JMPTEST-1459, JMPTEST-1461, and JMPTEST-1490.
Core
- Dan S: Fixes for Group Platform using Fit Model (platform link to group was broken). Added support for more DOE platforms in Session/Project files. Simplified focus for TabPage, which has logic to ensure that focus is never on a hidden tab. Added ability to open/edit JSS files on Windows. Fixed Journal crash related to ScriptableContainerBox. Also updated SI examples for new ScriptableContainerBox and fixed related issue with platform LRT Save Script menu.
- Dave B: Worked with tech support on a drag/drop issue that looks like it was probably caused by memory being freed twice. Fixed a bug that prevented an add-in that used a dll from being updated. Fixed a bug that caused extra space in an image copied from a report. Add-in builder work.
Reproduced a couple of crashes that were sent in.
- Evan: Working on some Data Table Column Tool filtering improvements: a list footer indicating filtering has occurred. The ability to filter hidden columns from the list (in addition to grid). Ability to show only filtered columns in the grid.
- Xan: Working on arrow charts in Graph Builder.
DOE and Reliability
- Caleb: Working on improvements to computations in the CSALT platform. I’ve also been helping out with analysis on an ADDT experiment being conducted with a student at Arizona State (with Doug Montgomery) who’s working on a new biohazard field detection kit.
Hosting and Interfaces
- John Schroedl: Pushed menu changes for fluent theming and color mode support. Fixed combo box bug where it could close immediately after opening depending on where you clicked. Updated to latest Telerik source. Enrolled in GlobalProtect VPN pilot group as we did not have a JMP representative primarily using Windows. Help with Windows project changes and other code reviews.
- Paul: Work on updating Python to 3.13.0 for JMP 19. Successful configuration on macOS and Windows, testing configuration to minimize footprint.
Interactive HTML
JMP Live
- Aurora: Control chart warning improvements (excluded from triage assignment users and groups who can't access the report, added 2 filters to report warnings: exclude addressed / include only assigned to me, conducted usability study with Di Michelson - thanks Di!). Investigated performance issue with excessive data dependency. Created first draft of JMP Live Considerations for JMP Developers. Filed Jiras related to Evan McCorkle's feedback on the user experience of failed regeneration reports - thanks Evan! If you are troubled (or delighted?) by anything you see in JMP Live, don't be shy - we want to know.
Note from Shannon
I noticed the Google doodle today was in honor of the kayak and Native American Heritage Month. You can read more about the artist here. Hope you all have a great weekend!
