In the past, comparisons of chamber configuration setups between chambers on the same mainframe or across different mainframes involved a manual method that took a day. Recently, an automated process has been developed using Workflow Builder in JMP 17. Individual workflow files were created to speed up the efficiency of the process, using an individual workflow, depending on the number of chambers being compared. The workflows took the config setup file and compared the reference chamber to the chamber(s) being queried. The process resulted in a report with graphs and tables based on the criticality of the configuration mismatches.

This presentation showcases the effectiveness of Workflow Builder's new conditional feature in JMP 18. This feature provides a method for combining all comparison workflows into one workflow, with the correct section of the workflow determined by the number of chambers being compared, which is entered by the user in a conditional prompt. The relevant workflow is selected based on the prompt entry. The end result is still the same as before but now the manual selection of the workflow file has been eliminated, allowing a comparison report to be generated across multiple platform types in one or two minutes.