You need to make your application scriptable . Whether for traditional uses or emerging marketplaces, scriptability makes a difference in the success of an application. This article provides an overview of what it takes to make your application scriptable from a REXX procedure. Success starts with scripting A scriptable application, in the broadest sense, is one that can be controlled or used by some other program. One traditional use of scripting is for customizing applications.
Users add functions to meet special needs or to increase productivity.
Users customize the editor by writing REXX procedures that they can run as editor macros. Another use of scripting is to combine several scriptable applications into a single composite application. For example, you can use a composite application to retrieve data from a spreadsheet and then manipulate that data with an editor to generate a file containing a report. Composite applications are powerful tools for creative problem solving. But composite applications can be written only if the applications managing the needed data are scriptable.