An ENDUP statement is optional. It is used to indicate the end of SYSIN input to this job step. If there is no other preceding delimiter statement, it serves as an end-of-data indication. The ENDUP statement follows the last group of SYSIN control statements.

When the ENDUP statement is used, it must follow the last label data statement if IEBUPDTE is used to create output trailer labels.

The syntax of the ENDUP statement is: