There have been some really good, helpful posts on this already:

https://community.intersystems.com/post/robust-error-handling-and-clean…

https://community.intersystems.com/post/registering-new-error-code-and-…

https://community.intersystems.com/post/objectscript-error-handling-sni…

https://community.intersystems.com/post/can-you-have-custom-status-obje…

Hi, Community!

Do you have HL7® V2 messages that you need to convert to the HL7® FHIR® format for better integration and analysis? See how the InterSystems FHIR Transformation Service can help:

Using the FHIR Transformation Service with AWS HealthLake

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Hey Developers,

It's time to announce the Top InterSystems Developer Community Authors of 2024 🎉

We are pleased to reward the most active contributors across all regional DC sites (EN, ES, PT, JP, CN, and FR):

• Breakthrough of the Year
• Top Best-Selling Authors
• Top Experts
• Top Opinion Leaders

I'm playing with %Net.DB.Iris and stumbled over a mystery

set con=##class(%Net.DB.DataSource).CreateConnection(host,...)
set srv=con.CreateIris()
write srv.ClassMethodValue("%SYSTEM.Util","InstallDirectory")

Entering the above lines (in a terminal session) on my local instance yields the correct answer for:

host = "localhost"
host = the real IP of localhost (i.e. host="192.168...")
host = "10.x.y.dev" customers development system (over a VPN tunnel)

but for

We are attempting to send HL7 messages over to CBOARD NetMenu over HTTP using SSL. We set this up using the EnsLib.HL7.Operation.HTTPOperation adapter. When we attempt to send the message we are receiving 

MSH|^~\&|||DIETOE|A6M0|202505131437||ACK^HTTP^415|00|P|2.1 MSA|AE|9165602|HTTP (N)ACK 'HTTP/1.1 415 Unsupported Media Type'

The vendor mentioned something about putting a SOAP/XML wrapper around the HL7 message but isn't that what the HTTPOperation adapter does? Why would we be getting Unsupported Media Type. How would we go about setting the Media Type for the HTTP HL7 message?

This article presents a potential solution for semantic code search in TrakCare using IRIS Vector Search.

Here's a brief overview of results from the TrakCare Semantic code search for the query: "Validation before database object save".

• Code Embedding model 

There are numerous embedding models designed for sentences and paragraphs, but they are not ideal for code specific embeddings.

Hello everyone,

I am attempting to implement continuous integration using Docker with Caché 2018.1, and I am in the process of creating an image for our client. I have already installed Caché 2018.1 on the RedHat server, but I am working on a script to create the database and namespace. For the database, I used the following code:

do ##class(SYS.Database).CreateDatabase("/usr/cachepoc/cache2018/mgr/poc/")

However, I have encountered some issues with this code. For instance, I am unable to view this local database in the portal's list:

HealthShare Unified Care Record Fundamentals – Virtual* June 2-6, 2025

Hello Community!

We're excited to announce that the FHIR France Meetup is making a comeback... in person at SantExpo 2025!

📅 Dates: May 21, 2025, starting at 7:00 PM

📌 Location: Halles d'Issy - Biltoki, 1 Rue Rouget de Lisle, Issy-les-Moulineaux, Paris, France

Hello Community!

The big challenge you've all been waiting for is finally here: The fourth InterSystems technical article writing contest in Spanish is here!

🏆 4th Spanish Technical Article Contest 🏆

Contest description: Write an article in Spanish in the Developer Community on any topic related to InterSystems technology.

Duration: May 12 – June 8, 2025.

Prizes for all participants: Everyone who publishes an article in Spanish during the contest period will receive a prize.

Main prize: Apple Watch SE / 10th generation iPad

Hi Community!

Check out the new video on how to build the frontend UI by prompting it in lovable or (potentially) any spec first REST API in InterSystems IRIS:

📺  Prompt the frontend UI for InterSystems IRIS with Lovable

🗣 Presenter: @Evgeny Shvarov, Senior Manager of Developer and Startup Programs, InterSystems

Hello Community,

I executed the below query in the %ZLANGC00.mac routine. It returns results when using dynamic SQL, but not with embedded SQL(returns 0). 

 &SQL(SELECTcount(*) INTO :Cnt FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES WHERE TABLE_TYPE='BASE TABLE'")
 Write "SQLTablecount : "_Cnt,!
 Set tResultSet = ##class(%SQL.Statement).%ExecDirect(,"SELECTcount(*) FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES WHERE TABLE_TYPE='BASE TABLE'")
 Do tResultSet.%Display()

Thanks!

I have a table in the development and want to erase data from certain columns. There is info in the docs but not for human
This piece of code does not work

ALTER TABLE table DROP COLUMN column %DELDATA

Hello,

I have a problem with the deployment. When I deploy using the Ens.Deployment.Deploy class, I no longer receive the logs in the terminal. However, the deployment went well, I see it in the history on the portal.

It works on our environment, but not on the client's.

Set tSC = ##class(Ens.Deployment.Deploy).DeployCode(chemin_"GESL_SVCCLI_DEPLOY_CPT-243_V4_0.xml","SVCCLI.ProdClient",1,chemin_"GESL_SVCCLI_DEPLOY_CPT-243_V4_0_rb.xml","L",chemin_"GESL_SVCCLI_DEPLOY_CPT-243_V4_0.log",1,1)

Thank you 🙂

According to documentation, quotation: "$THIS contains the current class context.The class context for an instance method is the current object reference (OREF).The class context for a class method is the current classname as a string value." As my example below shows, either the documentation or the implementation (or both) is wrong, I always call a class method (Value) and expected the class name as the return value but got either the class name or an OREF. Moreover, if I repeat the call, I get another values. But why?Does anyone have a clear explanation (for an aging brain) or have I

I use the following code to protect some code for being called by multiple processes at same time :

lock +^TEMP("FOO"):0//don't waitquit:'$test//critical section//...lock -^TEMP("FOO")

This works between processes but it does not prevent the same process entering critical section twice.

How to do that, is there any lock option ? I would like it to behave as the lock in C# or Java.

It's OK for me to use something else than LOCK instruction (eg : signals)

Hi Developers!

Here are the technology bonuses for the InterSystems FHIR and Digital Health Interoperability Contest 2025 that will give you extra points in the voting:

Hey Community,

We're pleased to invite all the developers to the upcoming kick-off webinar for the InterSystems FHIR and Digital Health Interoperability Contest!

Date & Time: Monday, May 12 – 9 am EDT | 3 pm CEST  

Introducing Smart Clinical Sidechick — the intelligent, no-drama partner your EHR wishes it could be. She reads FHIR data in real time, interprets lab results without ghosting, and explains clinical alerts like she actually cares. Built with GPT-4 brains and YAML sass, she’s not here to replace your main EHR—just to make it look bad. Tired of irrelevant alerts and cryptic warnings? Sidechick serves up real, explainable insights, not vague “elevated risk” vibes. And when your backend crashes, she doesn’t panic—she self-heals. Secure, responsive, and (unlike your last vendor) emotionally

Hi Community,

I recently needed to interrogate some folders/sub-folders to retrieve filenames using cache object script(COS) and I implemented it in the following way.

There are a lot of great community articles regarding "vector search on IRIS", and samples in OpenExchange. Everytime I see these, I'm so excited to know that so many developers already try vectors on IRIS!

But if you've not tried "Vector Search on IRIS" yet, please give me one minute 😄 I create one IRIS class - and with only one IRIS class you can see how you put vector data in your IRIS database and how you compare these in your application.

If you are a customer of the new InterSystems IRIS® Cloud SQL and InterSystems IRIS® Cloud IntegratedML® cloud offerings and want access to the metrics of your deployments and send them to your own Observability platform, here is a quick and dirty way to get it done by sending the metrics to Google Cloud Platform Monitoring (formerly StackDriver).

I am running into an issue where a JSON response is missing keys...

{
    "count": 0,
    "pageInformation": {
        "offset": 0,
        "size": 10
    },
    "items": []
}

Within the JSON response I am only looking for two fields portalUrl and portalId. I have tried using $LENGTH and %IsDefined to check if they are valued but neither work. 

Hi Community,

Enjoy the new video on InterSystems Developers YouTube:

⏯ Data Fabric in Practice: Lessons Learned @ Global Summit 2024

Regardless of whether an instance of IRIS is in the cloud or not, high availability and disaster recovery are always important considerations. While IKO already allows for the use of NodeSelectors to enforce the scheduling of IRISCluster nodes across multiple zones, multi-region k8s clusters are generally not recommended or even supported in the major CSP's managed Kubernetes solutions. However, when discussing HA and DR for IRIS, we may want to have an async member in a completely separate region, or even in a different cloud provider altogether. With additional options added to IKO in the

Hello Community,

I'm trying to use the assign option within a ruleset. I can trace the value with no issues but when I try to assign the same value to a variable of Namespace I get an error.
Ideally I would like to use a variable instead of repeating the Piece repeatedly throughout the rules.
Ruleset

Hello everyone!

FINALLY!! The technical article contest in Spanish begins on Monday  🎉🎉

I currently have an issue with a failed connection in VSCode and need some help.

It doesn't work when using ports 80, 1972, and 7038.

Hi, Community!

Looking to modernize the way you build interoperability screens in InterSystems® products? Take a tour of some recent UI improvements.

Building Integrations: A New User Experience

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