Me too, but in the early 1980's. I'd run the assembler from TSO READY so I wouldn't have to wait for an initiator. My way of programming was always like starting with a ball of clay generally like what I wanted, then adding the details as I went along. That method means lots and lots of compiles. Then one day my supervisor dropped by my desk with a blue-bar listing titled, "Top 10 TSO CPU Users" and I think I was on the top. Oops.

On 8/17/2021 11:35 PM, Mike Schwab wrote:
Well, in the early 1990s, my system had 1-2 hour delays on compiles.
So while waiting, I wrote a clist to do the same thing.  Allocate,
error handling, and deallocate of a single file took about 30 lines,
and a few iterations of debugging.  So, once I had one file allocate,
I went through all the files, executed the program, and deallocated,
and proceeded with the next two steps.  Got it working and would go
get a new cup of coffee while it ran instead of having to wait.


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