The process of working through this problem will work better if we make a point of clearly addressing every point in each post. Answering one question out of 3 and introducing several new tangents in each post will result in a lot of wasted time and effort.
1) You have stated that you "setup" something using the "root" id. Does that mean that you installed Progress as root?
2) Issue this command and post the results:
3) Issue this command and post the results:
4) What is the AIX system file? And what do you mean by its usage being 100%? My best guess is that you are saying that the root filesystem was 100% full and you freed some disk space. But I'm not sure about that, maybe you meant something else?
5) It would be better to understand and fix the real problem and it is not a good habit to get into but you
might be able to quickly cure this problem by rebooting AIX.