What is your dbbufpoolsize and logpoolsize?  When these values
are large, it takes a while for the dsmserv process to claim all that RAM.
If it does eventually come up, then you can try changing this value to a
lower amount and see if it comes up quicker.

As far as formating the recovery log.  It's been my experience that this can
be a slow process during a database restore.  What you can do, is format a
small 50 meg recovery log,  restore the database.  Then when you bring up
the server define your other recovery log volumes.  Might speed up your
database restore procedure.

James Thompson

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>     ANR0306I Recovery log volume mount in progress.
>     --------------------------------------------------
>     I have waited for Half an Hour and there seemd to be no disk
activity.
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>IBM's first suggestion is to upgrade the version.

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