{ stuff deleted }

> 3.   When doing a second backup of a database that has more than 256
> deletion stubs since the last time it was backed up, we get a dsmnotes
> crash  with an error about MS Visual C++ runtime library assertion failed.
> mempool!=MEMPOOL_INVLID.  This crash kills the dsmnotes task and locks the
> database from dsmnotes until the box is recycled.

This sounds like APAR IC19779. Check out PTF IP21415 on the ftp site
index.storsys.ibm.com. The directory is /adsm/fixes/agents/ntlnotes/v2r1. This
can be installed on top of the licensed and "try & buy" versions.

Regards,

Andy

Andy Raibeck
IBM Storage Systems Division
ADSM Client Development
e-mail: storman AT us.ibm DOT com