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Chapter 6 Accessing Variables and CI Commands in Applications The intrinsic mechanism provides a means of communicating with the CI from an application program. Several intrinsics manipulate user-defined and predefined variables from within an application. User-defined and predefined variables can be set and retrieved within an application as a means of communicating with another process in the same session. Intrinsics can also execute a CI command, UDC, or command file from within an application. This method can be used to supply system information to the application or to perform a routine more efficiently through CI commands. Note that each programming language calls an intrinsic in a unique manner. Refer to the appropriate application language guide for details about calling intrinsics.