Richard,
That doesn't quite explain what happened. I installed TSM on system-new and tried to move from system-old to system-new. When I tried to start system-new, I got the ANR9613W message. I then moved dsmlicense from system-old to system-new and started the server without the error message. I think what I did was what your notes said I shouldn't do and yet it worked. Jim
Jim - From my programming notes:
Exec format error Typically, you compiled a program on a system running at a higher level of the operating system than the system on which you try to run the program. Unless the special measures are taken when a developer compiles an application, the linker designates some libraries to be bound to the application and loaded with the application only at run time. Many of these libraries change from version to version on AIX. An application compiled on one version of AIX will store pointers to the locations of the functions in the dynamically bound libraries. If the compiled application is moved to a different version of AIX, the functions will not be at the address to which the pointers refer, and the system will send an "Exec format error".
My guess would be that the license file is inappropriate to that server.
Richard Sims