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The official InterSystems VS Code extensions are packed with features that make developing with InterSystems products a breeze. Today I'd like to highlight some small but useful features that you may have missed.
Show All Class Members
You can view all members of the current class, including inherited members, with the click of a button. Just click on the class icon in the top-right corner of the editor window and a filterable list of all members will appear. Clicking on one will reveal it in an editor tab.
While starting with Intersystems IRIS or Cache, developers often encounter three core concepts: Dynamic Objects, Globals & Relational Table. Each has its role in building scalable and maintainable solutions. In this article, we'll walk through practical code examples, highlight best practices, and show how these concepts tie together.
1. Working with Dynamic Objects:
Dynamic objects (%DynamicObject and %DynamicArray) allow developers to manipulate JSON-like structures directly in Objectscript. They are especially useful for modern applications that need to parse, transform or generate JSON.
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Hi folks,
One of the things I've been thinking about recently: how strong AI is changing my work as an ObjectScript developer right now! Yeah, yeah, I know I'm not a very fast, it should have happened 2-3 years ago... But it's only now that I've realized that I am not writing the code all my workday like before.
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Hi folks!
Is there an easy setting, e.g., to merge.cpf so that it will disable the management portal on a deployed IRIS container?
The idea is to let only one of my particular web apps be available and everything else not even accessible on IRIS.
Hi Community,
Sometimes you may need to merge multiple accounts or simply update the email address you use across the different portals in the InterSystems Developer Ecosystem. Since each portal works a little differently, here’s a guide to help you through the process.
Change your email
If you’d like to use a different email (for example, use a work email instead of a personal one, or vice versa), here’s how to update it across the portals:
1. Update your email in InterSystems SSO. To do this:
- log in to login.intersystems.com
- choose Options - Change Email
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- follow the prompts on screen to change your email
Dynamic Entities (objects and arrays) in IRIS are incredibly useful in situations where you are having to transform JSON data into an Object Model for storage to the database, such as in REST API endpoints hosted within IRIS. This is because these dynamic objects and arrays can easily serve as a point of conversion from one data structure to the other.
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Hello and welcome to the March 2026 Open Exchange Recap.
General Stats:
✓ 5 new apps in March
✓ 442 downloads in March
✓ 1,219 applications all time
✓ 46,409 downloads all time
✓ 3,636 developers joined
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Motivation
Why do we need this?
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Lack of Compiled Context: AI tools only see source code; they don't know what the final compiled routine looks like.
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Macro Hallucination: Because AI doesn't see our
#includefiles or system macros, it often makes them up, wasting time during debugging. -
The Documentation Gap: Deep logic optimization often requires understanding internal macros that aren't fully covered in public documentation.
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Manual Overhead: Currently, the only way to fix this is to manually use the IRIS VS Code extension to find the "truth" in the routine.
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.
So I am running IRIS 2023.3 via a Docker container on Windows 11 and when I go to System Administration > Connectivity > SQL Gateway Connections, I am able to connect to the iris container via jdbc. However, when I go to JBeaver and try connecting to IRIS via JDBC I am unable to do so. I know that this is a local laptop issue because when someone else runs it on t heir mac it works fine.
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Hi Community,
We have some exciting news! It's time for the next InterSystems writing competition:
✍️ InterSystems Technical Article Contest 2026 ✍️
Write an article on any topic related to the InterSystems products and services.
🎁 Gifts for everyone: A special gift for each author participating in the competition!
Motivation
I didn't know about ObjectScript until I started my new job. Objectscript isn't actually a young programming language. Compared to C++, Java and Python, the community isn't as active, but we're keen to make this place more vibrant, aren't we?
I've noticed that some of my colleagues are finding it tricky to get their heads around the class relationships in these huge projects. There aren't any easy-to-use modern class diagram tool for ObjectScript.
Related Work
I have tried relavant works:
- InterSystems class view:
1. https://github.
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What’s New in InterSystems IRIS and IRIS for Health 2026.1
InterSystems IRIS 2026.1 is here, and it’s packed with powerful enhancements designed to help organizations scale their data management like never before. Whether you’re dealing with the operational aspects of managing massive datasets or looking to optimize storage costs, this release brings a host of features to simplify life with your data and meet the growing challenges of very large datasets.
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We’re inviting community members to record a short video (less than 1 minute) answering one or more of these questions:
- What did you find most valuable about attending?
- What surprised you?
- Why should others join READY 2026?
- Who would benefit most from attending?
Your authentic perspective helps future attendees understand the real impact of these events, beyond the agenda.
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Hello and welcome to the March 2026 Developer Community Recap.
General Stats
✓ 115 new posts published in March:
– 25 new articles
– 41 new announcements
– 44 new questions
– 5 new discussions
✓ 327 new members joined in March
✓ 16,197 posts published all time
✓ 21,295 members joined all time
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This article is intended as a beginner level article for people that want to learn how to use OAuth2 in their web applications natively.
There is an accompanying video/demo that may be helpful here:
and you can reproduce this locally with the Open Exchange application attached.
OAuth2 as a native authentication type for web applications
OAuth (Open Authorization) 2.0 is a standard way to let one application call another application’s API without sharing a username and password.
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Hi Community,
Enjoy the new video on InterSystems Developers YouTube:
⏯ Operationalizing Cybersecurity - Making it Real and Relevant @ Ready 2025
Working in healthcare IT as a young developer, especially on InterSystems TrakCare, you quickly realize one thing: it’s not just about HL7 messages or backend integrations. A hugepart of making TrakCare work smoothly for hospitals comes down to how it’s configured, customized, and supported on the application side.
That’s where people like me come in—techno-functional developers who understand both the tech and how it impacts actual hospital workflows.
We’re Not Just Techies (or Functional Consultants)
Our role sits right in the middle.
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Hi everyone, This is me again🥲...
Today I want to share a sad story, which is my Deepsee Web is not working properly.😭
The story is like that.
Initially, I have a dashboard on monitoring how much I spend on the sky (by time chart) and look like the following originally
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Overview
Organizations that need to capture, store, and share patient-level quality or risk adjustment measure results via FHIR can do so by extending HealthShare SDA and enabling transformation to the FHIR MeasureReport resource.
This article describes how to configure HealthShare to support the Da Vinci Risk Adjustment (RA) Implementation Guide by enabling storage and FHIR-based exchange of MeasureReport resources for individual patients or members.
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Introduction
FHIR (Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources) is the modern standard for storing and exchanging clinical data. But once your data is in a FHIR server, how do you actually explore it? FHIR data is stored as JSON — powerful, but not practical to read directly. I wanted a tool where you could click on a patient, see their conditions, medications, lab results, and more — in a clean, readable format. So I built the FHIR Patient Viewer.
How It Works
The app runs entirely in Docker and connects directly to an InterSystems IRIS for Health FHIR server.
Hey Developers,
Thank you for being part of the InterSystems Developer Ecosystem!
We truly appreciate your participation across the Developer Community, Open Exchange, Global Masters, and the Ideas Portal.
Each year we run a short survey to understand how we can improve our platforms and better support developers like you. Your feedback helps us shape the future of the ecosystem.
Please take a few minutes to complete the survey:
👉 InterSystems Developer Ecosystem Annual Survey 2026 (3-5 min, 12 questions)
Note: The survey takes less than 5 minutes to complete.
Introduction — The Problem with AI Streaming in ObjectScript
Today, I would like to introduce a problem I encountered and the solution I found when integrating AI APIs into an ObjectScript application. My initial tests were successful, yet somewhat frustrating.
The HTTP call worked; the request was properly sent to my LLM APIs. But then, silence... a long wait. Eventually, the entire response arrived as a single block.
Technically, it worked, but the user experience was disappointing compared to a ChatGPT session.
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Hi everyone,
I’ve configured an integration scenario in InterSystems IRIS with a Business Service exposed as a SOAP web service. Everything works correctly when the web application allows unauthenticated access.
However, when I switch the web application to require Basic Authentication, I’m unable to get it working properly. I have configured a resource and assigned it to both the web application and the user I’m using for the request, but I consistently get login failures (visible in the audit log).
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i want to debug classmethod in vs code,bu it get error !
For example in %Library.File Class Documentation, FiieSet query is listed as:
"Selects Name As %String, Type As %String, Size As %BigInt, DateCreated As %TimeStamp, DateModified As %TimeStamp, ItemName As %Stringof ..."
How to obtain a "real" syntax?
Thank you.
In my previous article, Using LIKE with Variables and Patterns in SQL, we explored how the LIKE predicate behaves in different scenarios, from Embedded SQL to Dynamic SQL, and what happens to performance when wildcards and variables come into play. That piece was about getting comfortable writing a working LIKE query. But writing SQL that works is only the starting point. To build applications that are reliable, scalable, and secure, you need to understand the best practices that underpin all SQL, including queries that use LIKE.
This article takes the next step. We’ll look at a few key points to help strengthen your SQL code, avoid common pitfalls, and make sure your SELECT statements run not just correctly, but also efficiently and safely. I'll use SELECT statements with LIKE predicate as an example along the way, showing how these broader principles directly affect your queries and their results.
*This is what Gemini came up with for this article, kinda cute.
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Hello,
Looking for some additional help, maybe someone who has experience with this before, in setting up and configuring the Web Gateway with Kerberos.
Have read through the documentation (at the link below) and it's a good start but seems there are some details missing, or I'm not clear on.
Questions:
- Is there a external enterprise Kerberos server required, or is this set up contained within the local server?
- Is there a step-by-step instructions on what to do and configure to successfully complete this?
- Are there there config changes necessary for Apache?
