Hi Eric, The error says you do not have permission to write to the dsmerror.log in the reports directory.
Solution here: https://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21633869 - Thanks, Marc... ________________________________________________________ Marc Lanteigne Spectrum Protect Specialist AVP / SRT 416.478.0233 | marclantei...@ca.ibm.com Office Hours: Monday to Friday, 7:00 to 16:00 Eastern Latest Servermon for Spectrum Protect: http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21432937 Performance Mustgather for Spectrum Protect: http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg22013355 Spectrum Protect Blueprint: https://ibm.biz/BdHc6b Follow me on: Twitter, developerWorks, LinkedIn -----Original Message----- From: J. Eric Wonderley <eric.wonder...@vt.edu> Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2018 10:34 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] running dsmadmc in non-root account I have tsm v8.1.5 on linux and it does not run...: [e1derley@yacht ~]$ dsmadmc ANS1398E Initialization functions cannot open one of the IBM Spectrum Protect logs or a related file: /reports/dsmerror.log. errno = 13, Permission denied [e1derley@yacht ~]$ ll /reports/dsmerror.log -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 86762 Dec 12 07:11 /reports/dsmerror.log I have tsm v7.1.4 on aix and it does run. Has something changed on purpose or is this a configuration issue?