Welcome to the JMP Development Update for January 14, 2022!
We will wrap up JMP 17 EA6 at the end of the day next Friday January 21st. Thanks to everyone for working to get features ready for the next round of feedback! We will have three more EAs after this one.
After we return to work after the MLK Day holiday on Monday, we’ll gather in morning Zoom sessions for JMP Kickoff 2022 on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday at 8:30 am. I’m looking forward to hearing about our latest wins at new and existing customer sites around the world! Development will be featured in many Kickoff sessions. Of course, John Sall will start us off with his thoughts on our new company structure, sales results as well as ongoing development efforts in the main plenary session. Audrey Shull will share some more about how we do what we do as a development team. Development managers will also be featured in the R&D Town Hall that will be part of the All About the Product session hosted by our product management team. We’ll also gather with JMP colleagues from around the world in Meet the Experts breakouts. Hope you can make all the sessions and have a chance to meet some new JMP colleagues in the process!
JMP 17 Feature Freeze is also coming up between EA6 and EA7 – this milestone is planned for Friday February 18th. In addition to being an important date for major feature completion, feature freeze also marks the date when our product management colleagues begin finalizing product related materials needed for the launch (training documents, website content, new features presentation templates and examples, etc). Like the JMP user interface and other development deliverables that ship with the product, many PM-produced materials need to be translated and reviewed so that they can be ready to share with JMP customers in all regions on launch day.
Thanks to David White for presenting to C++ developers at the JMP Dev meeting on January 6 about opting into Action Recording for Save Column commands in platforms. If you missed the meeting, you can find the recording here. It’s been fantastic this week to see so many developers taking David’s advice to heart and adding this type of support into their own platforms. Big thanks also go out to Mandy Chambers – she’s been taking a first pass at testing this functionality across all platforms, adding an initial unit test for each one, and preparing instructions to pass along to platform testers.
We will meet next week for a tool demo by new JMP Live and Host group member Alex Taylor. He’ll present a tool demo on GitLab, a widely used tool both SAS and other companies, including the company Alex previously worked at (Cloudbees, parent company of Jenkins). I have a couple additional meetings on the calendar so far for 2022, but please contact me if you are interested in presenting this spring at a dev meeting!
Thanks to Tonya Mauldin for sharing this week’s details on Beta/Crash/Telemetry Tracks with crashes selected.
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Beta/Crash/Telemetry tracks for the week of 1/14/2022 | JMP Live (sas.com)
General Announcements
- Check out on this post on JMP Public about the state-by state adoption of Martin Luther King day - a collaboration between Arati and Sig Mejdal and Xan Gregg. Here’s a post from Inside SAS too – What is MLK Day?
Important Upcoming Dates
- JMP 17.0 EA6 – 1/21/22
- JMP 17.0 Feature Freeze - 2/18/22
- JMP 17.0 EA7 – 3/11/22
- JMP 17.0 EA8 – 5/3/22
- JMP 17.0 EA9 – 7/8/22
- JMP 17 Code Freeze – 7/20/22
- Please visit Confluence for a full list of JMP 16 and JMP 17 dates.
JMP Development Updates
Data Discovery
- Ernest: Workflow builder: unified message dialog to capture instructional or explanatory messages. Using ScriptEditorContainer with ability to capture output in Journal output.
- Dave B: Added some plot col customizations Joseph requested, fixed some plot col scrolling problems I noticed while working on changes Joseph requested, fixed a couple of crashes that Craige reported.
- Evan: Improvements to the search dialog like icons on Mac and misspelling corrections.
DOE
- In patent news, the DOE team has been granted the following patent: Transformation and Evaluation of Disallowed Combinations in Designed Experiments as U.S. Patent No. 11,216,603.
They have also received a notice of allowance on Data Set Generation for Performance Evaluation US Patent Application No. 17/365,083.
- Brad: Finalizing website and arrangements for the Stu Hunter Conference in March-fingers crossed. Recorded my talk for the European Discovery Conference.
- Caleb: Fixed a large batch of MSA bugs and started work on creating Sample Size Explorers for the remaining power calculators in the legacy Sample Size and Power Calculation platform.
- Ryan L: Pushed ability to specify units for factors and responses in DOE and working on adding discrete numeric factors to space-filling designs.
- Joseph: Working on getting Easy DOE ready for the next EA.
Host
- John Schroedl: Performance fix for isJMPPro(). Crash investigation from Bobby Riggs shows that the Menu Editor has a .NET object leak which can lead to crashes later in a session when attaching via remote desktop. Copying tab pages to clipboard has layout issues; working on that with Dan S.
HTML5
- John Powell: Working with Christine Bevans and Josh Markwordt to recruit a new developer for the HTML5 Team. This is the external posting. Marker segment load time performance optimization by moving some time consuming logic from JavaScript to C++. Started Year End reviews. SAS Management training curriculum. Met with Janet Stone regarding SAS manager resources. HTML5 backlog grooming/refinement.
- Mayowa: Working on adding row labels to parallel plots for categorical variables in interactive HTML (JMPHTML-1326).
JMP Live
- Michael G: Continuing publish on client work: refactoring to support JSL & add image post support. Continued researching accessibility and JMP Live. Pushed a few accessibility fixes. Discussed colors and branding based on the style guide with Bryan. Updated JMP Live’s favicon.
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- Aurora: Gathered requirements for enforcing unique package titles within a JMP Live folder. Also, continued work on "publish on client". Started work on replacing / republishing an existing report post. Clarified file re-use rules (only data tables can be re-used).
Statistics
- Annie: Worked on a few challenging (to me) defects in CCB:
- JMP-10272: Within Sigma Capability turned off in CCB with Include Missing Categories
- JMP-8114: Crash clicking Undo to remove the phase role for this control chart.
- JMP-10345: Start Over should not occur when changing from Variables to Attribute after using Undo
- Laura C-S: Took some time off last week so I watched the JMP Dev recording and implemented the Save Columns changes in SEM. I returned to multiple-group analysis (MGA) work and completed the high-priority red triangle menu options. Pushed test build for James to look at SEM’s control panel with MGA. Attended UI/UX meeting. Provided feedback on Journal for Workflow builder.
- Jianfeng: Adding Action Recorder support for save commands in my platforms.
- Elizabeth: Completed work on save columns/tables action recording for platforms I support.
Stat Testing
- Mark: Working on design of Analyze step in Easy DOE with Brad and Joseph. Working on testing Data Entry and Analyze steps in Easy DOE with Jacob. Joined workstream about JMP UX/UI. Nearly done with my editing of ASQ Handbook.
- Jacob: Testing Units for factors and responses in DOE (JMP-10299). Testing MSA Design with nested factors. Writing unit tests for Blas and Lapack numeric routines. Cleaning unit tests and verifying DOE Jira tickets.
- Fang: Responding to EA feedback. Testing of chi-square effect tests and z-intervals for GLMs in the GLMM platform. Testing the action recording of Save Column in various platforms.
- Tonya: Still working on updating unit tests due to Xan’s axis changes that were made before Christmas. Answered a user community question about legacy control charts. Attended the UX/UI meeting. Bug verification.
Life Sciences Updates
- Anisa: Testing reports for EA release.
Technical Support
- Duane: It has been a busy week in Tech Support. We have met several times with NeuraFlash, and together we are moving forward with our Service Cloud implementation. We continue to field calls from customers regarding the Log4j vulnerability, along with the usual questions. Here are the TS JMP Live reports. (JMP Live 16) Also, here is information regarding Jira tickets opened by Tech Support.
Product Management
- Bryan F: Completed a first draft of the Confidence Curves paper. Met with the UX Workstream group to propose goals and how to organize our work. Will incorporate feedback from the session and begin the process of forming teams to work on different aspects of the project. Collaborated on a couple of JMP Live issues with Michael Goff related to the JMP Brand Creative Guide. Michael proactively reached out to both JMP marketing and product management about syncing up with the recommendations in the guide. Consequently, I packaged the favicon referenced in the guide for JMP Live use and worked with Michael on an issue that prevented using the exact colors recommended in the guide. Worked on a dark mode issue related to profiler controls and began tracking down an issue related to Alaska and Hawaii not being shown on a graph that shows all the US states.
Development Operations
- Myron: Fixed and re-enabled tracked edits/image checker Jenkins job (JMPTOOL-330/JMPTOOL-160) and updated the orphan image checking job in Jenkins (JMPTOOL-237). Minor updates to Stringbot dictionary (JMPTOOL-358, JMPTOOL-289). Also working on duplication/looping problem with sample data extraction/generation jobs (recompiling/debugging through XMonitor, etc.)
- Bob: Review of 16.2 downloads. Made changes to SAS RE information before release next week. Finalized JMP Live updater files with PDF from Susan. Made updates to JMP Clinical EA in collaboration with Drew. Reviewed and edited JMP Clinical EA splash screen with Ryan D.
- Jim: Revising the JMP Clinical 17 Early Adopter scripts for macOS (with Drew and Bob). Reported several problems with unit test scripts, including ASAN crashes and assertion failures.
Documentation
- Qiana: Attended the JMP Academy sessions. Started planning for 17.0. Interviewed a candidate for the Senior Tech writer role. Reviewed candidate resumes and watched HireVue videos. Worked with ePublisher contact to resolve search issue in ZN and JA translated doc. Addressed 16.2 issues with the L10N doc.
System/Host Testing-Cary
- Mandy: Adding pet images into Big Class Families sample data table (JMP-666). Did some initial testing on Save columns with Action Recorder and added an initial test for all platforms before handing off to platform testers (JMP-7910). Rewrote several Data filter tests to accommodate recent Min/Max and where changes made by Dan S (JMP-10302). Tested saving and reloading tables and journals in Workflow Builder prior to the next EA. Sat in on the Americas and EMEA JMP professional development meeting - working on a mission and vision statement and goals.
- Mike M: Finished updating Sikuli for JMP 17.0 axis padding updates. Worked on issues for L10N Help browser tabs, ZH Support link (Jira TBD), HTML5 difference when overriding Summary Statistic (Jira TBD). Working through an update for my App Builder encryption JSL test with Dan.
- Hunter: Investigated problems and opened JIRAs for a session script error on Mac (JMP-10305), a crash deleting a column with a script (JMP-10307), a project crash closing two Fit Life by X reports (JMP-10286), and a missing report icon in project (JMP-10356).
- Lisa G: Helped investigate a JMP community reported bug & 17.0 EA tracks. Also added a Label Viewer example to show multiple images from multiple columns in proposed new sample data table version of Big Class Families.jmp.
- Hui: Reported regressions from HTML5 regression testing. Thanks to John Powell for the meticulous follow up!
System/Host Testing-Beijing
- Eric Wang: (1) End-to-End tests: Improve common function instruction, add usage for each common function. Update confluence page. (2) Jest migration tests: Learn how to run migration tests with docker. Investigate certificate expired issue, rebuild docker image with new certificates.
- Da Li: (1) Test JMP stories/bugs about SAS Import, XPT file import and OSIPI import. (2) Test JMP Live stories/bugs about Download, folder. (3) Jest migration tests: Learn how to run migration tests locally. (4) Pass UT automation on Mac manual steps to Kimi and do corresponding support. (5) Investigated TS report 7613493539 and entered new bug JMP-10248.
- Mike Wu: (1) Tested ODBC new feature JMP-10252 (Create Perfer DSN-Less ODBC Connection Strings preference). (2) JMPC hotfix cannot be installed because of SAS side bug SASHFADD-34. It blocks JMPC hotfix monthly check. (3) Oracle server is inaccessible now. It causes the related JSL UTs fail. (4) Investigated TS report 7613494470.
- Kimi: (1) Testing JMP Live stories/bugs about data-client. (2) Updated JMP-9419, Create a JMP Note about Python on M1 machines (3) Jenkins: Work with Da to integrate JSL UT tests on Mac to Jenkins server that Beijing team hosts.
- Nala: (1) Work with Audrey for details about meetings and other items between Cary team and Beijing team. (2) Test JMP Live stories/bugs about Accesses records for hierarchy folder.
Note from Shannon
I noticed this interesting article in Wired the other day about recently published studies that explored capturing DNA for species identification from the air outside a few different zoos using air filters. Similar methods are already used for environmental DNA (eDNA) capture from water samples, and can even be used to identify microscopic microbial species that can’t even be cultured in a lab. The authors of the article speculate that these methods may eventually complement other tools like photographic capture and animal footprint tracking for monitoring wildlife populations. So interesting!
Hope you all have a wonderful weekend, and enjoy the snow, if we get some!
