Hi Eric and list. I found the problem.
The home directory of the user is /tsm/wtsmt01. That is also the mount point of a file system When mounted the permissions were fine drwxrwxrwx 11 wtsmt01 tsm 16384 25 May 16:55 wtsmt01 When unmounted however the permissions were not correct. drwx------ 7 root system 256 10 Apr 14:37 wtsmt01 During start up db2 uses /bin/pwd which is symlinked to /usr/bin/pwd I ran your db2idrop successfully but the db2icrt failed. The log said 1. Verify the access permissions of the home directory of the instance owner by using the command "su". Example: /usr/bin/su <instance_owner> -c /bin/pwd 2. If the permissions do not include "r" and "x", unmount the drive, change the permissions, and remount the drive. Example: unmount /<directory> chown <instance_owner> /<directory> chmod 755 /<directory> mount /<directory> Related information: File permission requirements for the instance and database directories #1 failed, so I performed #2 and that fixed the issue. The symptom that I had seen before I started this debugging is that the instance user is getting a permissions error executing pwd Many thanks Steve -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Loon, Eric van (ITOPT3) - KLM Sent: Wednesday, 23 May 2018 10:27 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] TSM Instance can't find its instance directory. Hi Steve, Did you check the content of the .profile file of the instance user on the DR host? It should be identical to the one on the prime site. If that's OK you could try and drop the instance and recatalog the database on the DR node: # /opt/tivoli/tsm/db2/instance/db2idrop <instancename> # /opt/tivoli/tsm/db2/instance/db2icrt -a server -s ese -u <instance_user> <instance_user_password> $ db2 catalog db tsmdb1 on /tsm/wtsmt01 Maybe that helps? Kind regards, Eric van Loon Air France/KLM Storage Engineering -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Harris, Steven Sent: woensdag 23 mei 2018 1:36 To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: TSM Instance can't find its instance directory. Hi guys I have a curly one here. TSM 7.1.1.300 on AIX 7.1 I'm preparing for a DR test. The DR process is that the TSM instance directory, database, logs and disk/file storage pools reside on an IBM V840 flash device. These are mirrored to the DR site using remote copy. The old way was to use the remote copy directly, the new way is to run a flashcopy backup of the remote-copied volumes and mount those. Old process or new I get the same error. It last worked November last year. On my test instance, when I start at prime site as the instance user, it finds the instance directory /tsm/wtsmt01. It then opens the dsmserv.opt and initialization completes as usual. When I start at the DR site, also as the instance user, with the same filesystems mounted, and in the instance directory, it does not find the instance directory, but tries to use the root directory. Obviously the dsmserv.opt file is not found and the process goes down hill from there. Primary: ANR0900I Processing options file /tsm/wtsmt01/dsmserv.opt. DR: ANR0905W Options file /dsmserv.opt not found. ANR0010W Unable to open message catalog for language en_AU.8859-15. The default language message catalog will be used. ANR7811I Using instance directory . I have compared the two sets of environment variables and they are identical, apart from obvious things like PID and RANDOM. According to the doc, the instance directory is supposed to be set from the DB2 instance directory. This is checked with db2 get dbm cfg | grep DFTDBPATH and is the same on both boxes. I even explicitly set it again on the DR side to no effect. TSM Support has been no help. 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