I am not sure I understand exactly what your restore command is.  If you are
restoring to the original destination ADSM will restore the root dir's data (ACL
and EA) along with all the files and subdirs provided that the root directory
does not already exist.

In your example:
            dsmc RESTORE F:\adsmtest\* -subdir=yes

      1)If F:\adsmtest does not exist ADSM will restore 6 objects including the
root dir...
                     Restoring             32 F:\adsmtest [Done]
                     Restoring             32 F:\adsmtest\sub1[Done]
                     Restoring             32 F:\adsmtest\sub2 [Done]
                     Restoring             32 F:\adsmtest\Config.Sys [Done]
                     Restoring             32 F:\adsmtest\sub1\config.001[Done]
                     Restoring             32 F:\adsmtest\sub2\config.002 [Done]

      2)If F:\adsmtest does exist ADSM will not restore adsmtest so that it
does not
          wipe out the existing data for that directory.  Therefore it will
restore 5 objects...
                     Restoring             32 F:\adsmtest\sub1[Done]
                     Restoring             32 F:\adsmtest\sub2 [Done]
                     Restoring             32 F:\adsmtest\Config.Sys [Done]
                     Restoring             32 F:\adsmtest\sub1\config.001[Done]
                     Restoring             32 F:\adsmtest\sub2\config.002 [Done]

From you output it looks like you are trying to restore f:\adsmtest\* to a
alternate
location f:\adsmtst2.  Therefore the cmd would be...
                dsmc RESTORE F:\adsmtest\* F:\adsmtst2\
In this case there is no way for ADSM to now that the ACLs for adsmtest should
be
applied to the new dir \adsmtst2.   ADSM will create the dir if it does not
exist but will
not apply \adsmtest ACLs to it.

The only option I can think of is to restore it to the original name and then
rename it.

David Derk
ADSM Client Development