7. An article of manufacture including a program having instructions stored in a computer storage when executed by a data processing system for directing the data processing system to manage a plurality of data processing system executable tasks each having a script associated therewith, the article of manufacture comprising: instructions for presenting a list of computer executable tasks; instructions for selecting, from the list of the computer executable tasks, a selection of tasks; instructions for receiving a user input designating an operation from a plurality of operations to be applied to the selection of tasks, wherein the plurality of operations are selected as a function of a state of selected tasks, wherein the state of the selected tasks and a status of the selected tasks is a unique range of values; instructions for presenting scripts corresponding to the selected selection of tasks and selecting at least one script from the presented scripts, wherein no more than one script corresponds to each task; instructions for editing the at least one selected script; instructions for executing the at least one edited script by the data processing system; and instructions for presenting the at least one executed script as at least one new executable task in the list of computer executable tasks for further operation.
8. The article of manufacture of claim 7 , wherein the instructions for selecting from the list of the computer executable tasks comprises presenting, for each of the plurality of data processing system executable tasks, any one of: a status of a task, an action name identifying the task, a return code resulting from the execution of the task, or any combination thereof.