Welcome to the JMP Development Update for September 8, 2023!
Thanks to John Schroedl for sharing the following public service announcement from InsideSAS today:
SAS IT requires all employees to update their Apple devices to 16.6.1 because of a critical vulnerability affecting iMessage. Please see InsideSAS (or the details below) for more details.
JMP 18 EA6 is planned to freeze on 10/03/23, so please continue to update your individual feature pages with the lates info on your work. JMP DevOps is also looking ahead to the JMP 19.0 feature branch. This week I created the Jira issues that my team uses to track various branching-related tasks and we continue to work to track down all the details we’ll need to make the new feature branch happen in early November when we enter our Code Review period.
FYI that the JMP Dev meeting schedule is getting busy, so if you’d like to present this fall, please check out the volunteer list here in Confluence and reserve a date! If you want to present sooner than the next available date, please add an extra date to the table for a Tuesday 11 am session. You can even provide your title and draft description directly in the page. This week, we learned more about some upcoming JMP 18 features. Thanks very much to both our speakers this week:
Tonya Mauldin shared this week’s Beta/crash report, which you can check out in JMP Live: Beta/crash report for the week of 9/8/23 | JMP Live (sas.com)
Finally, thanks very much to Audrey Shull for sharing this Atlassian Tip of the Week!
JMP’s adoption of Confluence has been swift, with nearly all staff having signed into Confluence at some point, and dozens of spaces created to track all the great work going on around our company. To help you navigate, Sara Doudt has created a Confluence Space Directory as a top-level view of the various spaces. Check it out!
General Announcements
- If you’re willing to be a featured employee on Inside JMP, please download a copy of the Get to Know form. Simply fill out the questions and when you’re done, upload it, along with 3 photos of you to the folder. Thank you for helping to make our JMP family a little more familiar!
Important Upcoming Dates
- JMP 18 and JMP Clinical 18 EA6 – 10/3/23
- JMP 18 Sample Data Freeze – 10/18/23
- JMP 18 Code Review – 11/08/2023
- JMP 18 and JMP Clinical 18 EA7 – 12/8/23
- Please visit Confluence for a full list of JMP 17 and JMP 18 dates.
JMP Development Updates
Localization
- Welcome to new L10N team member Allison Liang! This week, she completed SAS Onboarding, JMP Onboarding with Beth Evans, and onboarding tasks in Workday, in addition to getting her laptop setup and software installed (including JMP) and meeting with the team.
- Sohail: Explored and implemented keyword extraction algorithms to assist with building term base to improve translation consistency. Currently working on optimizing keyword extraction to ensure that candidate strings are viable and useful.
- Howard: Tooling changes for Quick Start and Keyboard shortcuts and development work related to automation of localization processes. Met with JMP Live team to discuss localization of keycloak strings.
- Krzysztof: JMP Live UI Kits created. Processed Korean translation return for Essential Graphing and Profilers, coordinated with Martin Demel regarding MT translation of STIPS, met with JMP Live team to discuss localization of keycloak strings and development related to localization automation.
- Sandy: Testing validation scripts; vacation Tues/Thurs/Fri.
- Trish: Invoices and work orders. Scheduled meeting with doc team regarding migration to Oxygen & L10n. Met with Legal to discuss localization of a few legal documents. Met with JMP Live team to discuss localization of Keycloak strings. Triaged questions from translation teams.
Documentation
- Qiana: Attended the DEI Action Team Leadership Meeting. Worked on Sample Data Jiras. Looked at the Keyboard Shortcuts file in the JA 17.2 Help. Corresponded with SAS IT @ upgrading the help-pdf-builds server OS version. Reviewed the Deprecation of Boston Housing article that will appear on InsideJMP. Edited Help Menu Reorg Tech Note. Performed project planning and coordination.
- Susan: Still trying to get Jitbit to work for macro recording of Quick Start animated gifs. Retook all animated gifs using LICEcap. Sorted out text inset issues where some weren’t working in multiple places. Also verified that we can handoff completed text insets with the DJ. Working on JMP Live install help & user help for 18.
- Devon: Caught up with Chris on our processes and his status on producing the 17.2 JA and ZH help in order to start in on it myself next week, working on issues with the macro recorder for Working Smarter with JMP videos, triaging Jiras for the JMP Scripting Guide to create a plan of attack for them.
- Chris B: As last week, working on publishing the Japanese and Chinese 17.2 help.
System/Host Testing-Cary
- Mandy: Finished up verifications for data table and workflow builder fixes. Added a Presets test with a virtual join fix in it to workflows. Reviewed a test build David White created for a virtual join change and will work on that today when he pushes the fix to 18. Organizing my workflows from various machines and various places into Folders for interactive testing. Working through a STIPS course that I began a while back (this is the 4th for me).
- Audrey: Participated in a user study for Atlassian, Jira & Confluence admin work, verifications.
System/Host Testing-Beijing
- Beijing Team:
- Eric(Nai) Wang: (1) Testing new feature “folder level access”. Test the scenario that report / data permissions mismatch, add Jest tests (WEBJMP-7041). (2) Update JMP Live Stress tests (JMPTESTBJ-2722). (3) Working on JMP Live 18.0 scenario testing. (4) Introduced JMP Live Stress testing.
- Da Li: (1) DONE: JMP Desktop 18.0 I18N testing round 4/7. (2) IN-Progress: JMP Live 18.0 Scenario-based Testing, 9 bugs created. (3) JMPC reports which are published to JMP Live validation automation trying and writing using Playwright.
- Nan Wu: (1) JMP desktop 18.0 bugs regression testing, mainly on the ODBC related issues with different versions of Actual ODBC drivers (5.1.4, 5.1.7 and 5.1.8) on Mac. (2) JMP desktop 18.0 I18N testing round 4/7 completed. (3) Teradata database on quasi server met AMP down issue, entered service now ticket INC0917656, and tracked/discussed this issue with DBA team via DMOPS-8661, the latest update is that the quasi server and all the testing data can not be restored back, we will use a new server DBA provided vatcop1.unx.sas.com server, but currently the given user does not have enough access to create table to this DB, asked for the access and will restore the testing data to this new server later once having the access. (4) Created a Confluence page on how to upgrade the Actual ODBC drivers on Mac.
- Da Zhang: (1) Bug verification. (2) Scenario based testing. (3) Looking at existing JMP Live Stress Testing (Thanks Eric Wang). (4) JMP 18.0 i18n testing – round 4. (5) Introduce HAT framework.
- Nala: (1) scenario-based testing - in progress. (2) Bug verification. (3) Worked with Kimi to investigate TS report Case Number 00051830. (4) Discussed JMPC test schedule with Wenjun.
Data Discovery
- Julian: Work to arrive at the final icon for Platform Presets; thanks Bryan Fricke for developing icons and gathering feedback on options from in-market individuals. JMP 19 development themes planning with Product Management. Discovery Online and Discovery Indian Wells plenary preparation.
- Evan: Changed Profilers to use column scoped names as part of the Column-Robust Dispatch work. Updates to Variability Chart graphs for the same. Refactored “Template” to “Preset” internally. Fixed Preset rendering for Virtual Join columns. Working on better Preset handling of many-cols-to-one-role.
- Dan S: Updates for Robust-Dispatch for Preset customizations. Changed By Group launch to omit empty groups (this changed in JMP 16.2). Changed the way that Platforms rerun for Presets to avoid problems with the progress dialog.
- Morgan: Working on an early version of JMP Notebooks for my demo and on a pretty text box prototype.
- Dave B: investigated a couple of pdf import bugs, fixing a few selection issues with fill patterns, and fixed a bug where we were dropping rows states in MFI.
- Xan: Mac dialog accessibility and axis bugs
Host
- Daniel Powell: Salesforce Auth is working on the Mac in a similar capacity to Windows. Next steps are rewiring parts of JMP that relied on PER file values to now pull from the Salesforce Auth response.
- John Schroedl: Pushed initial work on supporting policies with more to come. Followed up with request from Hill AFB on some 3rd party library version issues.
Interactive HTML
JMP Live
- Aurora: Bug fixing and confluence updates for 18.0 features. Jira triage. Preparing for upcoming virtual meeting with Regeneron.
Statistics
- John Sall: Work with Joseph on model estimation code for Easy DOE. Principal Components has reduced the number of new methods from four to two: Nonnegative Principal Components and Sparse Components Analysis. These seem the most valuable (JMP-8539). Implemented Column Group support for saving scripts from platforms (Scatterplot Matrix, MDS, PLS, Factor Analysis (JMP-18224). Stepwise new rule choice now called "Whole Effects Respecting Heredity" (JMP-18233). Various fixes from Evan's automated saved scripts that needed column scoping (colon prefix) (JMP-18202).
- Laura C-S: Worked on a simulation to examine the application of Clay’s work (oblique-rotated loadings with penalized SVD) for psychometrics. The results are very interesting as the technique does a great job at identifying the non-zero elements in the loadings even when underlying dimensions are simulated to be substantially correlated. Also, doing an iterated PSVD works well for identifying the correct # of dimensions in the data (using the eigenvalues > 1 rule). All this makes me think PSVD should be in Factor Analysis. I also fixed a bug in SEM so that user-defined time values are now used to plot trajectories in longitudinal models.
Stat Documentation
- Michael C: Documented various new features in Distribution and Oneway. Reviewed UI strings for CSALT platform and suggested improvements to the DOE team. Solicited invited session proposals for JSM 2024 (deadline to submit a proposal was yesterday).
Stat Testing
- Tonya: Cleaning up Jira tickets and testing short run control charts and capability analysis with phases in CCB.
- Jacob: Testing CSALT Design. Verifying recent fixes and checking calculations of diagnostics. Testing a pending change for the Easy DOE Analyze tab. Updating nightly installer scripts for the new Performance Mac.
Technical Support
- All 2023 Topics for the Engagement Queue:
Development Operations
- Myron: Working on sample data processing (JMPTOOL-505), creating Linux AWS environments for Apache and database (JMPTOOL-868 & JMPTOOL-869), and a UI for JiraBot (JMPTOOL-939).
- Bob: Wrote InsideJMP article announcing 17.2 release options for customers and employees. Installer logic review in preparation for possible major changes. Final check of 17.2 products in SAS process. All is good.
- Shannon: Preparation and discussions around JMP 19 branch and interaction with authorization transition. Created Jira issues for 19 branching event via CSV upload as children of epic JMPTOOL-951.
Note from Shannon
Hope you all enjoy the weekend even with the rain that’s coming – we certainly need it after such a dry month!
