This great article sparked some recent private discussion, and I'd like to share some of my own thoughts from it.
The motivating concern boils down to: Why do we need coding rules or conventions at all? What happened to the wonderful era of the Renaissance artist-programmer forging their own path, prior to being supplanted by the craftsman and now (even worse) by AI?
In short, there are a few reasons why coding standards/guidelines are useful, and the Renaissance artist-programmer is not entirely gone.

Reason 1: These days, when you’re training a true novice artist, you start out by having them

JSON

JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) is a lightweight, text-based format designed for structured data interchange. It represents data objects consisting of key–value pairs and arrays, and it is entirely language-independent.

Data is at the heart of the digital transformation sweeping healthcare. Radical change requires a new foundation to handle the massive data demands of modern healthcare.

Time to market is crucial as you develop the next therapeutic breakthroughs, genomic insights, and intelligent clinical workflows. You need to deliver them now.

That’s why we’ve extended the power of our InterSystems IRIS Data Platform to address the unique characteristics of healthcare information. InterSystems IRIS for Health is the world’s first and only data platform engineered specifically for the rapid development of healthcare applications to manage the world’s most critical data.

I installed and configure CodeTidy in my local development environment, without InterSystems source-control (git-source-control) and only git for source control.

I would like to use only CodeTidy to stablish an automated  Linting and Code Style Validation for InterSystems ObjectScript code triggered by GitHub Actions.

Could you shed some light on how to accomplish that?

I have a table with 5M rows, the table contains lab observation codes and display names, both columns have type varchar(2000) and both are indexed.

The query looks like:

select code_1_text, count(code_1_text)
  from demo.observation_lab
  group by code_1_text
  order by 2 desc

The table contains ~1000 distinct display names.

It takes 4 minutes for the query to complete on a VM with some pretty old Xeon, 4 cores, 32G RAM, NVME SSD and Linux on board.

Isn't it too slow?

Hi,

sometimes we need more then one Iris container at the same time. Since as containers they always have the same instance name shown in the management portal, it is hard to distinguish the management-portals of the instances. Searching for a way to make it easier I thought I could change the instance name shown in the management portal. I tried "iris rename" in different ways but could only change the configuration name which is shown by "iris list", not the name in the management portal.

Does anyone know how to achieve this or do you have other means to distinguish between management-portals

Hi Community,

It's time to announce the winners of the InterSystems Developer Tools Contest! 

Thanks to all our amazing participants who submitted 17 applications 🔥🔥

Now it's time to announce the winners!

Hey Community,

It's time for the new batch of #KeyQuestions from the previous month.

Hi Everyone,
Please suggest/share best practices and sample questions that would help me to secure InterSystems HL7 specialist Certification.

If you want to find out what exact version your Docker image is (and since the latest image tagging scheme you cannot just rely on the image tag; and assuming you don't want to actually run it just in order to find out) you can run this docker command:

I am writing a little app where I press a button on a Zen form.It calls a ZenMethod that uses zenPage.launchPopupWindow() to provide me a way to choose a file.I then click on an upload button that calls a csp cache language script file that runs on the server, that grabs the contents of the file and stuffs it into a global.I want it then close and return to the parent window to continue processing the contents of the file.

Hi Community,

Enjoy the new video on InterSystems Developers YouTube:

⏯ HealthShares Nav App as a Service Orchestrator with Single SignOn for 3rd Party Apps @ Global Summit 2024

Hi Community,

Let's meet at the online meetup with the winners of the InterSystems Developer Tools Contest! It's a great opportunity to chat with the InterSystems Experts team and our contestants.

Winners' demo included!

Date & Time: Friday, August 8, 11:30 am EDT | 5:30 pm CEST

Hello Community,

I’d like to know how I can update my login email address from the profile section.

When I click the "Edit" option in my profile, it redirects me to login.intersystems.com. However, even on that page, I don’t see an option to edit the login email address. [unable to edit]

Could someone please guide me on how to change my login email?

Thanks in advance!

Hi Community!

Here you will find info about badges of the Developer Community & InterSystems Global Masters Advocacy Hub, and the complete list of badges with descriptions on how to get them. 

Please note: our current vendor doesn't have Levels functionality yet, but we are working on bringing it back.

Hi I have a SDA3 created from large CCDA file, i am trying to map the SDA object to Stream using tSDA.ToQuickXMLStream(.tSDAOut).. i am getting xml parse error.. it works when the files are smaller.. Is there a workaround to get SDA to a stream

Greetings dear community members!

Many of you will remember the NLP capabilities available in IRIS under the name iKnow, which were deprecated not long ago. But...is everything deprecated? NO! A small village resists deprecation: iFind indexes!

Hi, Community!

Need to connect your .NET application to InterSystems IRIS® data platform? See how Entity Framework Core can help:

Using Entity Framework Core with InterSystems IRIS

Hello everyone,

I came across the following badge on Credly:
TrakCare Fundamentals Lite Training – InterSystems Certification

Could someone please let me know how I can enroll in this course or obtain a related certification?
I’d really appreciate any guidance or links to more information.

Thank you in advance!

Hi Community, 

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I have a custom Buffer class which is designed to capture written/printed statements to the device, to be able to transform the captured text to string or stream type. I have used this in ObjectScript to capture ObjectScript write statements and return a string. I would like to try to use this with a [ Language = python ] method as follows. This class will be called by a scheduled task.

/// ObjectScript code which initializes buffer to capture statements written in nested method callClassMethod CollectStringFromBuffer() 
{
    set buffer = ##class(CustomClass.Buffer).%New()
    do buffer.B

When I install the numpy package on Python on my PC using:

pip install numpy

I can use it in python on my machine. If I do:

pip install --target C:\InterSystems\IRIS\mgr\python numpy

I get errors any time I try to import it in embedded python.

    from .    from .

Trying to extract the narrative text from large CCDA files using EnsLib.EDI.XML.Document:GetValueAt method

Getting a MAXSTRING error from the GetValueAt method.. Tried alternate by using GetSubDocumentAt and put it to string. Still it is giving a Invalid OREF method. Is there any limitation on these OOB methods. Also looking for ideas to extract it

Hi Community,

Enjoy the new video on InterSystems Developers YouTube:

⏯ Healthcare in Living Color @ Global Summit 2024

Hi

I'm getting an error when trying to connect to rabbitmq using the link and source code below.

Is there a solution?

https://community.intersystems.com/post/how-produce-and-consume-rabbitm…

Set setting = ##class(%External.Messaging.RabbitMQSettings).%New()

Set tClient = ##class(%External.Messaging.Client).CreateClient(setting, .tSC)

Error : 5023,"Connection cannot be established"

Thank you

Hello InterSystems EHR community,

InterSystems Certification is currently developing a certification exam for InterSystems EHR Reports specialists, and if you match the exam candidate description given below, we would like you to beta test the exam! The exam will be available for beta testing starting June 30, 2025.

Overview

The typeorm-iris project provides experimental support for integrating TypeORM with InterSystems IRIS, enabling developers to interact with IRIS using TypeORM’s well-known decorators and repository abstractions. This allows a more familiar development experience for JavaScript and TypeScript developers building Node.js applications with IRIS as the backend database.

While the project implements key integration points with TypeORM and supports basic entity operations, it’s not yet battle-tested or suitable for production environments.

It appears as though command history is not available via up/down arrow keyboard keys when using the SQL Shell. Is there anything in the works to change that?

Also, typing the colon character (:) as the first character after the prompt in Terminal Lite does odd things in 2025.1.1 ... every keystroke starting with the colon is echoed back and pressing Enter generates an error:

The red :SQL on the first line was echoed simultaneously as the :SQL in white was typed. Also, it's obvious that aliases don't work in Terminal Lite 😉

I'm working with IRIS for Health. I need to abort all messages currently in the queue via the command line (IRIS terminal). is there any easy way?