Thanks Richard for your answer howevere we are running Windows port of TSM 5.3 
and the dsmfmt is not supported, we are having difficulies in getting the 
correct syntax of the "dsmserv format" and is not behaving as expected.

Thanks

Carl

---- Richard Sims <rbs AT BU DOT EDU> wrote: 
> Carl -
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You should NOT be using DSMSERV FORMAT to create additional Recovery 
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Log space: use the DSMFMT command. You're lucky that the command 
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failed! Refer to the Admin Guide manual topic "Recovering When the 
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Recovery Log Runs Out of Space" for the steps to follow. And by all 
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means review server configuration and maintenance topics in that manual 
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to avoid major problems like this.
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> 
   Richard Sims
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On Mar 14, 2005, at 5:42 PM, Carl Lea wrote:
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> ANR9999D adminit.c(1530): ThreadId<0> Insufficient log space to update 
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> table
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> Administrative.Attributes.
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> ANR9999D ThreadId<0> issued message 9999 from:  <-105642D8 
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> outDiagf()+168
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> <-1005EA24 admInitPart2()+13c4
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> I suspect the log space is full.....
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>> From what I can tell I need to format some space for the log file 
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>> then extend the log... simple right...
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> This is what I get when attempting to format a log file…..
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> :\Program Files\Tivoli\tsm\server>dsmserv format 1 c:\new_log.dsm 25mb
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> NR0900I Processing options file C:\Program 
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> Files\Tivoli\tsm\server\dsmserv.o
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> .
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> NR7800I DSMSERV generated at 17:33:50 on Dec  7 2004.
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> ivoli Storage Manager for Windows
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> ersion 5, Release 3, Level 0.0
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> NR4726I The ICC support module has been loaded.
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> issing format arguments.
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