Hopefully I didn't clip too much.  You made a comment on my note as follows:

>. because I really don't have any documentation.  When I am in this
>> situation, and I am afraid that if I take ADSM down, it won't come back
>> up, then I not inclined to cancel with a dump.

> You don't have to cancel it, just halt the ADSM server and restart it.  The
> recovery log will get cleared during initialization (of course, you
> probably already know this).

Be careful, here.  If you run Normal node, then what you say is true.  But if
you run "rollforward", then it is not.   The log information is held over a
restart, so a restart doesn't help clear it.  This is where ADSM won't come
back up.

A couple of weeks ago, at 2:00 on a Monday morning, I had to change the log
mode to Normal, so I could clear it.  The problem was that even after I
changed it, and issued the Halt, it wouldn't come down!  Had to do a "force"
to get it out.  In hindsight, I probably should have taken an SVC dump, but
by then, the value of the dump was probably questionable.

Jerry Lawson