Along with the apar mentioned in the other note...

     I would always just put in a single DB & LOG volume initially, then
     fire up adsm with its nice new db and from the console define my admin
     id, then initiate a dsmadmc session to define the other/additional db
     vols & log vols.

     I think my initial failing attempts had my parm field around 200
     characters on 3 lines.  Once I got the continuations correct it yelled
     on the parm length, then I screamed!

     later,
           Dwight


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Subject: ADSM/MVS Server Recovery
Author:  Frank.Rehor (Frank.Rehor AT clorox DOT com) at unix,mime
Date:    10/27/98 2:31 PM


     Hi,

     I'm attempting to recover my ADSM/MVS V3.1.1.3 server on a test LPAR.
     I am using the procedures documented in the ADSM for MVS: Recovery and
     Disaster Recovery Redbook. I have allocated and formatted my recovery
     log (one file) and database (four files). When I try to initialize the
     files with the batch DSMSERV FORMAT utility I get various errors. 1st
     I discover that the 'PARM' field can only handle up to 100 characters
     (this is NOT documented in the Administrator's Reference).  With 5
     files to initialize this is not enough. So I broke the job into 2
     steps with the recovery log in step1 and the DB's in step2. The
     recovery log init'd ok, but the DB step gave me the following error
     msg:  "Invalid database count for format mode."  The JCL was coded:

     //   PARM='/FORMAT 4 SYS3.ADSMP.DB01 SYS3.ADSMP.DB02 SYS3.ADSMP.DB03
     //            SYS3.ADSMP.DB04'

     Any help is most appreciated.  Thanks.

     Frank Rehor
     The Clorox Service Company
     925 847 4814
     frank.rehor AT clorox DOT com