>Also did you try starting the dsmcad with a ./dsmcad.   Sometimes AIX will
>make you put the dot and slash in front of the command to run it.

It's not AIX, but rather the way Unix "path" specifications should be:

        For security reasons, root (and most other system accounts) should NOT
        have a "." entry in the Path, to prevent someone from planting a command
        of the same name as one that is an established name, but in an oddball
        directory, like /tmp.  Imagine what would happen if root had cd'ed into
        /tmp and had "." in its Path, and happened to invoke some imposter
        command instead of the real command.  That's a classic hacker ploy.  Get
        in the habit of doing ./CMDNAME form invocation to explicitly invoke
        something in the current directory.  And make sure none of your
        non-ordinary accounts have a "." in their path.

 Richard Sims, BU