Hey David, I went through the below steps with IBM support while testing TSM 7.1.6
Login as instance owner 1: db2stop force ipclean cd /home/tsminst1/ /opt/tivoli/tsm/server/bin/dsmserv removedb tsmdb1 2: after remove db, cleanup all your logs dir and dbdir and ensure they are clean: ls -al /dirname ---collect output for logs dir and dbdir (if any...) 3: after tsmdb1 is removed, redo the format: cd /db2home/tsminst1/ db2diag -A /opt/tivoli/tsm/server/bin/dsmserv format dbdir= activelogdir= archlogdir= activelogsize=... 4: if format is good , after format, login as tsminst1 cd /home/tsminst1/ /opt/tivoli/tsm/server/bin/dsmserv Thanks, --Alex On Mon, Oct 3, 2016 at 7:47 AM, David Ehresman < david.ehres...@louisville.edu> wrote: > Is there a procedure for re-initializing a tsm instance? I want to reuse > existing tsm db and log filespaces but re-initialize it as a fresh empty > instance. > > I'm thinking I can just erase all the files in the db and log directories > and then rerun the initial initialize gui. Am I missing something? > > AIX 7.1 & TSM 7.1.7.0. > > David >
