The monitor "kernel" is the heart of the Monitor Utility. It is
a COBOL/CICS program that runs unattached to any terminal. |For each database for which you have started a kernel, there will be |a separate kernel task. Each time a monitor kernel is activated, it determines what monitors should be scheduled and starts a task for each. At midnight, the kernel schedules the Reset Monitor task, that optionally deletes the monitor data and optionally produces a report for all monitors scheduled to be reset.
Each individual monitor:
|This monitor kernel reactivates itself every minute to check if it |needs to dispatch any monitors.