These are either spawned or forked OMVS process.  You could use the PS panel
and see what is running 

I find tasks with STEP1 are usually Unix

I find that a $DS......  is usually a BPXAS address space

Did you use the da ccomman in SDSF?  Then PRE OMV*

The PS and ENC panels in SDSF can be very helpful


Lizette

-----Original Message-----
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf Of
Charles Mills
Sent: Wednesday, November 24, 2021 10:54 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: What is OVMSKERN?

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

Reply via email to