Thank you, Matt.
Yes, all the three mentioned tasks/ checks are done and good. Database is up. The SQL statements that you see in the logfile return results from the SQL tester of the console.
The PROP file seems to be good. From the contents below, is there anything obvious that I need to be concerned?
DISPATCHER_NAME=idm_dispatcher_01
MC_JDBCDRIVER=com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerDriver
MC_JDBCURL={DES3CBC}1:963076a2b6f4d07c-<encrypted_string>...
DSECLASSPATH=%DSE_HOME%/Java/DSE.jar:%DSE_HOME%/Java:%DSE_HOME%/Java/sapjco.jar:%DSE_HOME%/Java/sapjco3.jar:C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft JDBC Driver 4.0 for SQL Server\\sqljdbc_4.0\\enu\\sqljdbc4.jar
JDBCDRIVERS=com.microsoft.jdbc.sqlserver.SQLServerDriver;com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerDriver;com.sap.dbtech.jdbc.DriverSapDB;org.gjt.mm.mysql.Driver;sun.jdbc.odbc.JdbcOdbcDriver;oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver;COM.ibm.db2.jdbc.app.DB2Driver;COM.ibm.db2.jcc.DB2Driver;COM.ibm.db2.jdbc.net.DB2Driver
DISP_CONN_STR_CHARSET=UTF-8
Regards,
Vivek