> I have found in the past that scripts which work using one tool (ISQL,
> IBConsole etc) fail on another. Making the engine perform this task
> would stop errors like this occuring. (A similar and related problem
> occurs with metadata extraction tools.)

So, you want standard, built-in, script interpreter.
Perhaps as part of gds32 ?
(It can't be on the server - imagine commands like COMMIT, CONNECT,
DROP DATABASE, INSERT <script.sql>, ...)

Ivan
http://www.volny.cz/iprenosil/interbase