>> I guess It would be therefore reasonable, upon success on the patching, to keep a copy of the resulting, patched, dos/vs 3350s and replace the ones shipped with vm/ce.
I thought about something like that for a while, but I feel it is better to leave the 5-pack as is. People can customized it to their needs whenever necessary. Besides, not that many people use DOS/VS for COBOL programming, so it is often more "fruitful" to help people via this group like I did with you.
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If I am right, George Shedlock built his 5-pack based on the DOS/VS system he worked on, in his professional career. I assume he was an assembler programmer and did not pay that much attention to the old DOS/360 COBOL and PL/I compilers requirements. Since I didn't (and still don't) know how to patch a compiler, I came up with a first degree solution at the time: add a 2314 disk and change the BG labels of the work files. That is what I explain in a video on the Youtube channel of Moshix. I believe the SORT program on DOS/VS also needs a 2314 for its work files, so the added disk could be used for that too.
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Anyway, I am glad you have fun with POWER and FCOBOL now. Enjoy DOS/VS, it has more to offer than one might think at first. :-)
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Cheers,
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Rene FERLAND, Montreal
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René Ferland