diff --git a/packages/zowe-explorer/CHANGELOG.md b/packages/zowe-explorer/CHANGELOG.md
index f90033235d..bd0b7a86cf 100644
--- a/packages/zowe-explorer/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/packages/zowe-explorer/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 All notable changes to the "vscode-extension-for-zowe" extension will be documented in this file.
 
 ## TBD Release
+- PROC and PROCLIB datasets are recognized as JCL [#2612](https://github.com/zowe/vscode-extension-for-zowe/pull/2612)
 
 ### New features and enhancements
 
diff --git a/packages/zowe-explorer/src/shared/utils.ts b/packages/zowe-explorer/src/shared/utils.ts
index 2d5eda8169..c956334af4 100644
--- a/packages/zowe-explorer/src/shared/utils.ts
+++ b/packages/zowe-explorer/src/shared/utils.ts
@@ -142,7 +142,7 @@ function appendSuffix(label: string): string {
     const bracket = label.indexOf("(");
     const split = bracket > -1 ? label.substr(0, bracket).split(".", limit) : label.split(".", limit);
     for (let i = split.length - 1; i > 0; i--) {
-        if (["JCL", "JCLLIB", "CNTL"].includes(split[i])) {
+        if (["JCL", "JCLLIB", "CNTL", "PROC", "PROCLIB"].includes(split[i])) {
             return label.concat(".jcl");
         }
         if (["COBOL", "CBL", "COB", "SCBL"].includes(split[i])) {