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1. How to transmit int's to mainframe (ASCII to EBCDIC sort of)?

Hello:  I'm doing data transfers using LU 6.2 (IBM's SNA peer to peer comm
protocol) between a PS/2 (AIX 1.2.1, Uh, IBM's UNIX) and
an IBM mainframe.  Currently, I know how to transfer character data.  I
convert it from ASCII to EBCDIC on the PS/2 before I send it,
no problem for character only data.

What I want to know is does anyone know how to transfer integers?  What I'd
like to do is transfer a "C" int (4 bytes) or a short int (2 bytes) up to
the mainframe for a COBOL program.  The COBOL program would use something
like S9(7), I think?  Is there some transformation that I can do to the
integer before I transfer it analogous to the ASCII to EBCDIC conversion of
the character data?

The reason I want to do this is that there will be a lot of stuff flying
back and forth, and I don't want the overhead of large numbers converted
to lengthy character strings.

I'm I out to lunch here?  Should I just transfer characters and be done with
it?

Thanks
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