What is a PROC ? What is the difference between

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What is a PROC ? What is the difference between an instream and a catalogued PROC ?

PROC stands for procedure. It its 'canned' JCL invoked by a PROC statement. An instream PROC is presented within the JCL. a catalogued PROC is referenced from a PROCLIB partitioned dataset.

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