Terribly. :-( Charles
-----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Radoslaw Skorupka Sent: Thursday, November 25, 2021 9:13 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: What is OVMSKERN? Do you miss them? -- Radoslaw Skorupka Lodz, Poland W dniu 24.11.2021 o 20:17, Charles Mills pisze: > Well, they all went away, so no telling now. > > Charles > > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of John McKown > Sent: Wednesday, November 24, 2021 10:26 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: What is OVMSKERN? > > Can't say for certain, but my SWAG is "unreaped child processes". Try an > SDSF PS display to look at the PID (Unix process ID) and PPID (parent > process ID). A UNIX process does not go away by itself. It stays around so > that the parent can get its "return code". The parent must then "destroy" > or "reap" the child. If the original parent terminates before the child, > the child continues to run and the parent of the parent becomes the actual > parent. This "bucking it up the chain" for child processes continues until > it would eventually reach PID 0, which is the "init" task, or in z/OS, OMVS. > > You should be able to simply use the DA display to kill the associated STC. > > On Wed, Nov 24, 2021, 11:54 Charles Mills <[email protected]> wrote: > >> These things just popped up on my SDSF.DA display. I've never seen them >> before, and the general workload mix has not changed. Anyone know what the >> heck they are? >> >> OMVS OMVS OMVS NS FF 7405 0.00 0.00 >> OMVSKERN STEP1 STC01436 OMVSKERN LO FF 565 0.00 0.00 >> OMVSKERN STEP1 STC01437 OMVSKERN LO FF 565 0.00 0.00 >> OMVSKERN STEP1 STC01419 OMVSKERN LO FF 576 0.00 0.00 >> OMVSKERN STEP1 STC01438 OMVSKERN LO FF 567 0.00 0.00 >> OMVSKERN STEP1 STC01435 OMVSKERN LO FF 565 0.00 0.00 >> OMVSKERN STEP1 STC01414 OMVSKERN LO FF 569 0.00 0.00 >> OMVSKERN STEP1 STC01432 OMVSKERN LO FF 565 0.00 0.00 >> OMVSKERN STEP1 STC00289 OMVSKERN LO FF 582 0.00 0.00 >> OMVSKERN STEP1 STC01293 OMVSKERN LO FF 577 0.00 0.00 >> OMVSKERN STEP1 STC01441 OMVSKERN LO FF 565 0.00 0.00 >> OMVSKERN STEP1 STC01433 OMVSKERN LO FF 565 0.00 0.00 >> OMVSKERN STEP1 STC01439 OMVSKERN LO FF 565 0.00 0.00 >> OMVSKERN STEP1 STC01367 OMVSKERN LO FF 579 0.00 0.00 >> OMVSKERN STEP1 STC01429 OMVSKERN LO FF 569 0.00 0.00 >> OMVSKERN STEP1 STC01425 OMVSKERN LO FF 565 0.00 0.00 >> OMVSKERN STEP1 STC01440 OMVSKERN LO FF 565 0.00 0.00 >> OMVSKERN STEP1 STC01434 OMVSKERN LO FF 565 0.00 0.00 >> OMVSKERN STEP1 STC01413 OMVSKERN LO FF 564 0.00 0.00 >> OMVSKERN STEP1 STC01426 OMVSKERN LO FF 569 0.00 0.00 >> OMVSKERN STEP1 STC01427 OMVSKERN LO FF 576 0.00 0.00 >> OMVSKERN STEP1 STC01424 OMVSKERN LO FF 565 0.00 0.00 >> OMVSKERN STEP1 STC01417 OMVSKERN LO FF 567 0.00 0.00 >> OMVSKERN STEP1 STC01431 OMVSKERN LO FF 567 0.00 0.00 >> OMVSKERN STEP1 STC01422 OMVSKERN LO FF 577 0.00 0.00 >> OMVSKERN STEP1 STC01415 OMVSKERN LO FF 576 0.00 0.00 >> >> Charles >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
