Hi Community! 👋

You’ve asked for easier ways to connect with other Global Masters and we heard you!
Random Coffee Chat is an easy way for Global Masters to connect and have an informal 1:1 conversation. ☕

🗓 When: January 26 – February 15

This thread is for participants based in Asia, Australia and New Zealand who’d like to connect and schedule a short coffee chat directly with each other.

The READY agenda is now available!

As you know, InterSystems Iberia READY 2026 was created with the goal of showing where the future of data, interoperability, and artificial intelligence is heading. A perfect opportunity to learn, connect, and help the sector grow. You’re all more than invited, just in case you didn’t know 😉 Little by little, we’re revealing more about an event that will be a turning point for us. We’ll keep you posted. For now, the agenda is ready—what do you think? We believe it’s going to be a very engaging session.

Welcome to the monthly recap of updates and releases to VS Code and InterSystems-related extensions relevant to IRIS developers. We'll break down the updates that are relevant to InterSystems developers with tips on how they can be applied to your day-to-day projects. 

Don’t forget, if you’re migrating from InterSystems Studio to VS Code, or want to deepen your knowledge, check out the VS Code training courses from George James Software: georgejames.com/vscode-training.
VS Code version 1.

I am developing a C++ based program to access the IRIS database using iris-callin.h

I need to know what dll/dlls to use for the Iris object module?

Hey Community!

We're happy to share a new video from our InterSystems Developers YouTube:

     ⏯ Develop the Next Generation of Health IT with InterSystems@ Ready 2025

IRIS can use a KMS (Key Managment Service) as of release 2023.3.  Intersystems documentation is a good resource on KMS implementation but does not go into details of the KMS set up on the system, nor provide an easily followable example of how one might set this up for basic testing.

The purpose of this article is to supplement the docs with a brief explanation of KMS, an example of its use in IRIS, and notes for setup of a testing system on AWS EC2 RedHat Linux system using the AWS KMS.  It is assumed in this document that the reader/implementor already has access/knowledge to set up an AWS EC2 Linux system running IRIS (2023.3 or later), and that they have proper authority to access the AWS KMS and AWS IAM (for creating roles and polices), or that they will be able to get this access either on their own or via their organizations Security contact in charge of their AWS access.

Hi,

I want to consume an API that provides HL7 messages. To achieve this, I have thought of the following workflow:

I have created a business service that periodically triggers a business process. The trigger request is forwarded to a business operation. There, a %Net.HttpRequest is assembled from scratch and then sent to the API endpoint. The corresponding HttpResponse then contains several HL7 messages encoded in UTF-8 in the message body. To further process the HL7 messages, the operation sends the HttpResponse back to the business process as EnsLib.HTTP.GenericMessage.

The 2025.1.3 maintenance releases of InterSystems IRIS^® data platform, InterSystems IRIS^® for Health^TM, and HealthShare^® Health Connect are now Generally Available (GA).

I have always struggled with Iterating through a JSON response to pull out certain fields into a Data Class Structure to use to populate fields in a DTL. So I defined the whole structure for the following JSON, with the base structure extending Ens.Response, %XML.Adaptor, and %JSON.Adaptor.

Hey Community!

We're happy to share a new video from our InterSystems Developers YouTube:

     ⏯  Vector Search Performance @ Ready 2025

Hi Community,

We’re excited to invite you to take part in shaping the next generation of ObjectScript development tools. We’re working on an AI-powered ObjectScript coding assistant designed specifically for IRIS developers. Not a generic AI adapted for ObjectScript, but a solution built from the ground up to understand ObjectScript idioms, IRIS APIs, interoperability productions, and real-world developer workflows.

To make sure we build something truly useful, we need your input.

👉 ObjectScript Coder Agent Developer Survey 👈

The third developer previews of InterSystems IRIS^® data platform, InterSystems IRIS^® for Health, and HealthShare^® Health Connect 2026.1 have been posted to the WRC developer preview site.  Containers can be found on our container registry and are tagged latest-preview.

These developer previews includes the dropping of Mac Intel support starting from 2026.1.0, and the adding back of Windows Server 2019 support to 2026.1.0.

Initial documentation can be found at these links below:

• InterSystems IRIS Data Platform 2026.1 | Documentation Home Page
• HealthShare Health Connect 2026.

TL;DR This article explains how to deploy InterSystems IRIS Community Edition on Azure using the Azure Marketplace and a Virtual Machine. It covers prerequisites, instance selection, authentication, SSH access, first verification steps, and how to delete resources to avoid charges. The deployment can typically be done using Azure free credits and is suitable for developers who want to quickly start working with IRIS in the cloud.

Who this guide is for. This guide is intended for developers, solution architects, and DevOps engineers who want to deploy InterSystems IRIS Community Edition on Microsoft Azure. No prior Azure automation experience is required, but basic familiarity with the Azure Portal and SSH is helpful.

After following this guide, you will be able to:

• Launch InterSystems IRIS Community Edition from the Azure Marketplace
• Configure a small, secure Azure VM
• Connect to IRIS using SSH and the Management Portal
• Reset the default IRIS password and verify that IRIS is running

Prerequisites

• An active Azure subscription (new accounts may have free credits)
• Permissions to create resource groups, VMs, and networking resources
• An SSH client and a private key (.pem) you can store securely
• Basic knowledge of Linux command line

Deployment overview

• Open the IRIS Community Edition listing in Azure Marketplace and click Get it now
• In Azure Portal, choose Start with a pre-set configuration (or Create)
• Configure Basics: subscription, resource group, VM name, region, image, and size (a small VM is usually sufficient)
• Choose SSH key authentication and generate/download the key if needed
• Review + Create, accept terms, and deploy; then Go to resource → Connect → SSH
• First SSH login: run iris password to change _SYSTEM/SYS; start a session with iris session iris
• Management Portal: http://YOUR_VM_IP:52773/csp/sys/UtilHome.csp

Hi Community! 👋
As 2026 gets underway, we’d love to hear what you’re focusing on this year.

This discussion is a space to share your resolutions, goals, and focus areas for 2026 - technical, professional or community-related.

These don’t have to be traditional New Year’s resolutions. Think of them as intentions or priorities you’d like to work on this year.

If you work with Productions, highlighting connections between Business Hosts is a very convenient feature, allowing developers to get a visual representation of a data flow.

This feature works by default with all system Business Hosts. If a user writes their own Business Services, Processes, or Operations, they must implement the OnGetConnections method for this functionality to work with their custom Business Hosts (or use Ens.DataType.ConfigName properties for connections).
That said, the SMP shows only the first layer of connections of the selected Business Host. Sometimes, we need to get connections of connections recursively to build a complete data flow graph. Or we might need this connection information to check which downstream systems might be affected by a change upstream.

Hi Community! 👋

You’ve asked for easier ways to connect with other Global Masters and we heard you!
Random Coffee Chat is an easy way for Global Masters to connect and have an informal 1:1 conversation. ☕

🗓 When: January 26 – February 15

This thread is for participants based in North, Central, and South America who’d like to connect and schedule a short coffee chat directly with each other.

Enabling HSSYS Mirroring Out of the Gate with IKO

For those of us building InterSystems workloads on Kubernetes, we are definitely spoiled with the InterSystems Kubernetes Operator (IKO) doing the heavy lifting and mirroring on day one.  Where us spoiled brats jump up and down is when we try to add additional databases/namespaces when we provision from HealthConnect containers on day two, while others get to utilize HealthShare Mirroring for this task, the prerequisite of mirroring HSSYS out of the gate has been somewhat elusive.  Here is example on how you can this powerful feature up and running with the employment of IKO and IrisClusters.

PEP 578 added Python Audit hooks. A rich variety of events (module load, os interactions and so on) triggers audit events which you can subscribe to.

Here's how to do that. First create an embedded python hook:

Class User.Python
{

/// do ##class(User.Python).Audit()
ClassMethod Audit() [ Language = python ]
{
import sys
import time
def logger(event,args):
     if event=='import':
        module = args[0]
        print(f"Loading {module}")
        if module == "numpy":
            print(f"Module {module} forbidden. Terminating process in 3.")
            time.

Developer required to join a team working with and extending an existing CACHE application and subsequent migration to IRIS.

4yrs Minimum experience.

Applicants must have good general knowledge of development approaches and patterns.

SQL 

Opportunity from 6 Month contract to Permanent, depending on experience. Immediate start

Applications to chris.clipston@mtivity.com

Hello everyone,

My team lead mentioned that users can sometimes create globals directly without associating them with tables or classes. In this case, these globals would not be accessible via SQL.

Is this correct? Can a global exist independently in this way, and if so, is there a specific approach to access or manage them without SQL?

10:47 AM — Jose Garcia's creatinine test results arrive at the hospital FHIR server. 2.1 mg/dL — a 35% increase from last month.

What happens next?

• Most systems: ❌ The result sits in a queue until a clinician reviews it manually — hours or days later.
• This system: 👍 An AI agent evaluates the trend, consults clinical guidelines, and generates evidence-based recommendations — in seconds, automatically.

No chatbot. No manual prompts. No black-box reasoning.

This is event-driven clinical decision support with full explainability:

✅ Triggered automatically by FHIR events ✅ Multi-agent reasoning (context, guidelines, recommendations) ✅ Complete audit trail in SQL (every decision, every evidence source) ✅ FHIR-native outputs (DiagnosticReport published to server)

Built with:

• InterSystems IRIS for Health — Orchestration, FHIR, persistence, vector search
• CrewAI — Multi-agent framework for structured reasoning

You'll learn: 🖋️ How to orchestrate agentic AI workflows within production-grade interoperability systems — and why explainability matters more than accuracy alone.

Who hasn't been developing a beautiful example using a Docker IRIS image and had the image generation process fail in the Dockerfile because the license under which the image was created doesn't contain certain privileges?

In my case, what I was deploying in Docker is a small application that uses the Vector data type. With the Community version, this isn't a problem because it already includes Vector Search and vector storage. However, when I changed the IRIS image to a conventional IRIS (the latest-cd), I found that when I built the image, including the classes it had generated, it returned this error:

Hi Community!

InterSystems France & Benelux Ready 2026 is all about learning, sharing, and connecting. And we’re extending the experience to the Developer Community with a fun, light Bingo challenge.

Hey Community!

We're happy to share a new video from our InterSystems Developers YouTube:

⏯  Taking the Fear out of FHIR - Fast Tracking Organizational FHIR Readiness @ Ready 2025

In Part 1, we laid the technical foundation of MAIS (Multi-Agent Interoperability Systems). We have successfully wired up the 'Brain', built a robust Adapter using LiteLLM, locked down our API keys with IRIS Credentials, and finally cracked the trick code on the Python interoperability puzzle.

However, right now our system is merely a raw pipe to an LLM. It processes text, but it lacks identity.

Today, in Part 2, we will define the Anatomy of an Agent We will move from simple API calls to structured Personas.

France & Benelux READY 2026 has just come to an end, and once again, these two days demonstrated how dynamic, curious, and engaged the Developer Community truly is. Here is a look back in words and images at this great edition.

The event kicked off with welcome remarks from @Adeline Icard and @Geoffroy Vitoux, setting the tone for the days ahead: innovation, sharing, and collaboration.

In my previous HttpRequests, I have used Content-Type = application/json but I have a vendor that is requesting we send application/x-www-form-urlencoded. How would I go about formatting the Payload as x-www-form-urlencoded?

Thanks

RIP Neil Pappalardo

Hi everyone, 

Does anyone know how to export projects via VSC? 

I opened the project through the "InterSystems Tools" plugin (command is "Edit Code in Project") and I can correctly work on it.

However, when I try using the "ObjectScript" plugin to export the project (right click on the project -> "Export Project Contents")

This message appears and it is not possible to export the project:

I've tried also to open a new window, then a folder and finally the project, but nothing changes. 

This is an example of my workspace: 

Anyone knows how to do it? 

Thank you!