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Question Jacinto Busquets · Mar 20

I created a table profile dashboard on Power BI, but I wonder if is possible to do it in Iris by creating a class.

HealthShare Clinical Viewer 2022.2.2 Build: 1000 Adhoc: 23127 [HealthShare Modules: Core:24.0 + Clinical Viewer:24.0] - IRIS for UNIX (Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 for x86-64) 2022.1 (Build 209_0_23127U) Mon Feb 12 2024 18:21:53 EST [Core:24.0|Clinical Viewer:24.0]

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Article Myles Collins · Jul 22, 2025 6m read

Are you familiar with SQL databases, but not familiar with IRIS?  Then read on...

About a year ago I joined InterSystems, and that is how IRIS got on my radar.  I've been using databases for over 40 years—much of that time for database vendors—and assumed IRIS would be largely the same as the other databases I knew.

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Announcement Anastasia Dyubaylo · Mar 20

Hi Community,

Preparing for InterSystems Certification examsrequires more than reading documentation. It calls for focused practice aligned with real exam objectives.If you are planning to validate your expertise in HL7, SQL, System Administration, or Development, structured preparation can make a significant difference.

🧑‍🏫 Exam preparation platform

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Article Guillaume Rongier · Jul 31, 2025 4m read

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This article will introduce you to the concept of virtual environments in Python, which are essential for managing dependencies and isolating project from the OS.

What is a Virtual Environment?

A virtual environment is a folder that contains :

  • A specific version of Python
  • At start an empty site-packages directory

Virtual environments will help you to isolate your project from the OS Python installation and from other projects.

How to use it?

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Article Dmitry Maslennikov · Apr 19, 2023 2m read

Apache Superset is a modern data exploration and data visualization platform. Superset can replace or augment proprietary business intelligence tools for many teams. Superset integrates well with a variety of data sources.

And now it is possible to use with InterSystems IRIS as well.

An online demo is available and it uses IRIS Cloud SQL as a data source.

Apache Superset provides a bunch of examples, which were successfully loaded to IRIS without any issues, and displayed on example dashboards.

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Article Luis Angel Pérez Ramos · Mar 20 7m read

Hello to all the esteemed members of the InterSystems developer community in Spanish!

Although I often consult the developer community and have occasionally left a question here, this will be my first article, and what better occasion to do so than by participating in the 3rd technical article contest.

The topic I will cover in this article is the different tools that InterSystems IRIS provides us to optimize both the databases and the queries we run, as well as the new types of storage and data.

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Question Yone Moreno Jiménez · Jun 23, 2025

Good morning,

We would need help, thanks in advance for your help. 🙂

We have been trying to debug the following error, when sending a DICOM from a "EnsLib.DICOM.Operation.TCP" to a PACs:

  ERROR <EnsDICOM>NoCompatibleTransferSyntaxFound: No negotiated transfer syntax for SOP class '1.2.840.10008.5.1.4.1.1.4' is compatible with document transfer syntax '1.2.840.10008.1.2.4.70'

We use the following AET titles at the Operation:

LocalAET: ESBSSCC-DCM

RemoteAET: HUNSCESBGWT

We have observed that we do have the transfer syntax "1.2.840.10008.5.1.4.1.1.4" with the document syntax "1.2.840.10008.1.2.4.

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Discussion Gabriel Ing · Mar 4

Anyone up for a round of golf?

Are you fed up of making a machine write code for you? Do you miss thinking through problems yourself? Then you are in luck, this round, I propose adding the rule of no AI use. obviously its a game of honor with no prize, so I shan't be enforcing this, but you'll know... 

Challenge:

Create a function which takes a string as a parameter, and returns the length of thelongest sequence of alternating consonants and vowels. The sequence is broken by having two vowels or two consonants in a row.

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Article Bruno Santos · Mar 19 8m read

The problem

How many times have we migrated an IRIS Instance to another machine, maybe even another version, and after a few days realized we forgot that one SSL Configuration critical for a Business Operations to work? Or maybe a credential, or a lonely class in a package by itself?

The solution

The simple solution is to make a checklist¹. A checklist of the entities we have to move. But simple checklists on Word documents are often forgotten, or just ignored.

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Article Sue O'Leary · Jan 16 6m read

Introduction

The recent addition of FIFO groups allows First-In, First-Out (FIFO) message processing to be maintained in an interoperability production even when a Pool Size is greater than 1, enabling higher performance without sacrificing correctness. This feature first appears in InterSystems IRIS® data platform, InterSystems IRIS® for Health, and InterSystems Health Connect™ in version 2025.3.

First-In, First-Out message processing is critical in many integration scenarios, especially in healthcare. Traditionally, FIFO ordering is enforced by configuring each business host to process only one message at a time (Pool Size = 1). While effective, this approach can limit throughput and underutilize system resources. FIFO groups preserve FIFO ordering where needed without requiring a Pool Size of 1.

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Announcement Mariam Makhmutova · Mar 19

Hi Community,

Out of almost 200 applications, 26 selected teams will begin a 3-month fully virtual journey at Caelestinus. The cohort brings together pre-seed to seed stage startups from across the globe, spanning the United States, South America, Europe, South Korea, and Singapore.  

During the program, teams will enhance their solutions by building in interoperability, gaining an understanding of key digital health standards, and transforming them using InterSystems IRIS for Health and FHIR Server with the help of InterSystems experts.

We're pleased to invite everyone to watch the Caelestinus 2026 Kickoff Event streaming, where you can discover which teams were selected and learn about their innovative ideas.

Please watch the streaming via www.caelestinus.tech starting at 9 AM ET / 2 PM CET on March 25th 2026.

You can also watch the recording of the opening event here.

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Question Alexandra Stuck · Mar 18

 Hi everyone,

I’m currently working with InterSystems IRIS and handling large datasets where some queries are starting to take longer than expected.

So far, I’ve tried basic indexing and reviewing query structures, which helped a bit, but I still feel there is room for improvement. My goal is to reduce response time, especially for frequently used queries in a production environment.

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Article Joel Solon · Jul 29, 2025 12m read

Imagine you’re walking down the street on a nice summer’s day, and someone walks up to you and says “Hey, you work at InterSystems, right? I’ve been hearing more and more about InterSystems IRIS lately. I know IRIS has its own programing language called ObjectBook? or InstaScript? OK, I admit it, I know it’s called ObjectScript! I know IRIS also supports Python. I’m a Python developer, so that sounds great to me. But I’m also interested in ObjectScript. For example, Python and other languages support collections. Does ObjectScript support collections?”

You’d answer “Of course!”

And then your new friend might get excited and start firing off more questions:

  • How many kinds of collections does ObjectScript support?
  • Can ObjectScript use Python collections?
  • Can Python use ObjectScript collections?
  • Which collection is best?

How would you answer? Well, you don’t have to worry about answering. All you’d have to do is send your new friend the URL of this long page.

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InterSystems Official Daniel Palevski · Mar 18

Summary

Alert Id Product & Versions Affected Risk Category & Score Explicit Requirements
DP-449126 InterSystems IRIS® data platform 
InterSystems IRIS® for Health 
InterSystems Health Connect™ 
versions 2024.1.0 – 2024.1.5, 2024.2.0, 2024.3.0, 2025.1.0 – 2025.1.3, 2025.2.0, 2025.3.0
Data Integrity: Low Risk  Database updates executed as part of custom logic for CSP session events may not be journaled.
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Question Scott Roth · Mar 18

While reviewing our Orphan messages, we noticed that there are some Orphans that look like they are the start of an HL7 message.

MSH|^~\&

Since this does not link to any Message Header, and most of the information in EnsLib_HL7.Message is NULL, is there a way to track down what Object maybe creating these so we can nip it in the bud.

Only way that I know of is to go through each of our Schema's and make both the MSH and Encoding Characters optional.

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Announcement Ali Nasser · Feb 18

Hello DC community, 

InterSystems Certification is currently developing a certification exam for ObjectScript developers, and if you match the exam candidate description below, we would like you to beta test the exam! The exam will be available for beta testing starting February 18th, 2026. 

Beta testing will be completed May 4, 2026.

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Question Oliver Wilms · Mar 15

I created a new repo called ipm-module-budget from https://github.com/intersystems-community/intersystems-iris-dev-template template.

I cloned the repo to an EC2 instance in AWS. When I try to build image, I see this error:

#8 22.09 [IRISAPP|ipm-module-budget] Reload START (/home/irisowner/dev/)Segmentation fault (core dumped) #8 ERROR: process "/bin/sh -c pip3 install -r requirements.txt && iris start IRIS && \tiris session IRIS < iris.scri pt && iris stop IRIS quietly" did not complete successfully: exit code: 139

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Article Murray Oldfield · Mar 13 4m read

Already included in SystemPerformance

There are nfs disk commands (including nfsiostat) included with SystemPerformance, but disabled by default. Enable them by running:

$$Enablenfs^SystemPerformance()

Doing so will add the following nfs commands, for example, on Linux:

  1. /usr/sbin/nfsstat -cn
  2. /usr/sbin/nfsiostat [interval] [count]

Ensure the commands are installed and runnable from the OS :)

This can be subsequently disabled via $$Disablenfs^SystemPerformance()


Adding a generic command to SystemPerformance

Adding an arbitrary OS tool creates a "user" command under ^IRIS.

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