Thanks for all the responses, I will explore them all.  Here is
something else that is interesting.  When I 'nohup dsmcad 2> /dev/null
&' it appears to work, but the 'dsmc schedule' appears to react
differently as shown below when I type 'ps -aef | grep dsm':

root      32417      1  0.0 14:58:26 ??           0:00.03 dsmcad       
root       4357    321  0.0 08:11:40 ttyp1        0:00.00 grep dsm     
root      28820    321  0.0 07:58:17 ttyp1        0:00.05 dsmc schedule

I believe the 'ttyp1' designates only for the current session, am I
correct?  While the '??' is for any session.  The 'dsmcad' stays running
thru a log out.  Hmmm...

Bud Brown
Information Services
Systems Administrator