On Tue, 2011-12-20 at 21:47 -0500, Spearman, Wayne wrote:

> Hello,
> We have just installed TSM 6.3 on AIX 7. We are seeing a serious
> slowness when we login to TSM with DSMADMC on AIX. The ID prompt comes
> up fast enough but it takes anywhere from 6 to 30 seconds for the
> password prompt to display. Once in everything is fine. If I use the
> Windows DSMADMC to access the AIX TSM 6.3 server I do not see the
> problem, the password prompt displays immediately. If I run DSMADMC from
> our TSM 5.5 AIX server to access the TSM 6.3 Aix server the password
> prompt comes up immediately. Putting passing the ID/PW to DSMADMC does
> not help. My peers at other sites are not seeing this issue on their TSM
> 6.3 servers. This is killing my scripts. I've search ADSM.ORG, but did
> not find anything that helped. Does anyone have any suggestions on how
> to correct this problem?
>
> Thanks,
> Wayne
>

Just a suggestion, but firstly start looking at DNS/hosts name
resolution - including forward and reverse lookups for the client and
whatever you have in dsm.sys as the server hostname.