To all those that replied, many thanks again .. but I'm getting a bad
feeling my ADSM Server
 is dead. Here is the two things I have tried:

 1.    dsmserv dsmfmt -log log5.dsm 1024

          the results are:

  ANR0990I ADSM server restart-recovery in progress.
  ANR0200I Recovery log assigned capacity is 16 megabytes.
  ANR0201I Database assigned capacity is 152 megabytes.
  ANR0306I Recovery log mount in progress.
  ANR0354I Recovery log redo pass in progress.
  ANR0355I Recovery log undo pass in progress.
  ANR0352I Transaction recovery complete.
  ANR999D adminit.c(982): Insufficient log space to update table
Administrative-.Attributes

  Same old message as when I try to start the server.

  2.    dsmserv extend log adsm.new.reclog 100                       exactly
  the way shown in Appendix 'B'

          the results are:

  ANR0200I Recovery log assigned capacity is 16 megabytes.
  ANR0201I Database assigned capacity is 152 megabytes.
  ANR999D admstart.c(2578): Error 31 from lvmAddVol.
  ANR7835I The ADSM thread 1 (tid 115) terminated in response to server
shutdown.
  ANR7835I The ADSM thread 7 (tid 142) terminated in response to server
shutdown.
  ANR7835I The ADSM thread 8 (tid 133) terminated in response to server
shutdown.
  ANR7835I The ADSM thread 9 (tid 126) terminated in response to server
shutdown.
  ANR0991I ADSM server shutdown complete.

  I don't know what else to do.

  Again any thoughts are appreciated.

  John