Explicit and Implicit Scope Terminators

Scope terminators delimit the scope of certain Procedure Division statements (delimited scope statements), and are of two types: explicit and implicit.

The explicit scope terminators are listed below:

END-ADD
END-PERFORM
END-ACCEPT
END-CALL
END-CHAIN
END-COMPUTE
END-DELETE
END-DISPLAY
END-DIVIDE
END-EVALUATE
END-IF
END-MULTIPLY
END-READ
END-RETURN
END-REWRITE
END-SEARCH
END-START
END-STRING
END-SUBTRACT
END-UNSTRING
END-WRITE

Note: In some cases the delimited scope statement with which an explicit scope delimiter is paired is determined differently for different COBOL language specifications.

Implicit scope termination occurs:

At the end of any sentence, where the separator period terminates the scope of all previous statements not yet terminated
Within any statement containing another statement. The next phrase of the containing statement (for example, ELSE, WHEN, AT END, and so on) following the contained statement terminates the scope of any unterminated contained statement.