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Procedures and Procedure Steps

In a CA Gen design, each procedure contains at least one procedure step.

Online and batch procedures can be single-step procedures or multi-step procedures.

Although it is not immediately apparent when looking at the Dialog Flow Diagram, the procedure step (not the procedure) is the object for which a Procedure Action Diagram and a screen are defined.

Since most procedures are single-step procedures, the existence of procedure steps is sometimes not obvious to the designer. On the Dialog Flow Diagram, where both procedures and procedure steps appear, procedure steps are not added to the diagram unless more than one is required to support the parent procedure. Based on whether the procedure is defined as online or batch, the meaning of the terms procedure and procedure step differ slightly.