InterSystems is pleased to collaborate with the Harvard Health Systems Innovation Lab (HSIL) on the HSIL Hackathon 2026. 

As part of this joint initiative, InterSystems will support participants with a dedicated challenge focused on building innovative healthcare applications using modern interoperability and AI technologies.

The HSIL Hackathon 2026 is a two-day innovation event focused on developing solutions that improve healthcare systems through the use of AI.

📅 Event dates: April 10–11, 2026
📍 Format: One hackathon taking place simultaneously in two hubs
👥 Participation: ~50 teams across both locations
🏆 Next step for winners: Venture Building Program

If you have long-running messages here's a simple code to catch them. You can also use Queue Wait Alert to get the same results, although this code will catch even a single active message with an empty queue. It also scans all namespaces with no production modification, so it can be used for debugging.

Include Ensemble

Class User.LongMessagesTask Extends %SYS.Task.

Hi everyone, 

I need to connect to an SFTP server from InterSystems IRIS 2024, but the connection must go through a proxy. 

I couldn’t find any built-in support for SFTP with proxy in IRIS/Ensemble. 

What would be the recommended approach in this case? 

is there any native or supported way to handle SFTP + proxy? 

Any examples or best practices would be appreciated. Thanks!

My team is trying to decide on the best Git strategy for a group of related but separate projects/environments.

One side prefers one repo per project/environment/namespace for cleaner separation. The other side prefers one repo with multiple project folders so shared code and releases are easier to manage in one place.

The challenge is that these projects are separate enough that boundaries matter but related enough that some utilities and common logic may need to be reused. We also want the setup to be easy for developers to understand and not become a deployment nightmare later.

Despite the fact that LOCK (docs) is a foundational part of InterSystems IRIS, responsible for concurrency, there is not a lot of discussion on the Developer Community about it. Which is understandable, considering it's stable and fairly low-level command. In this article, I will show a simple example of how to use locks with interoperability.

v2026.1 was just released as GA, and one of the features I'm looking forward to using is the DTL Explainer feature.

This allows you to take a Data Transformation, and with a click of a button get a human-readable description of the transformation (which you can also use as the basis for the DTL Description).

For complex DTLs, especially ones you didn't write yourself, or you did but a long time ago, this will allow you to get a clear quick understanding of what it's doing.

Hi, Community!

Find out about the latest UX enhancements in version 2026.1 of InterSystems products!

Building Integrations: A New User Experience (v2026.1)

In this video, Product Manager @Aya Heshmat walks you through:

• Updates to the BPL Editor, Message Viewer, and Visual Trace interfaces
• Improvements to the Production Configuration, DTL Editor, and Rule Editor

Hi Guys,

I've connected VS Code to my IRIS server and can see projects & web application option but not Classes tab, how can I add it, and with the old Studio we do have the Inspector tab where we can check properties, Storage, methods, are these available in VS code?

also does any changes or new classes created via VS code automatically reflected in my IRIS namespace ? 

Thanks

Since our previous announcement, we have introduced several incremental improvements to the client‑side editing experience in VS Code. These updates focus on preserving developer‑authored formatting when synchronizing with the server.

What Changed

Client‑side *.cls files previously lost certain formatting details during compilation, including keyword casing (e.g., classmethod → ClassMethod), normalization of blank lines between class members, and removal of line breaks within parameter lists.

The 2023.1.7 maintenance releases of InterSystems IRIS^® data platform,InterSystems IRIS^® for Health^TM, and HealthShare^® Health Connect are now Generally Available (GA). 

Please share your feedback through the Ideas Portal using the category Post-Release Feedback so we can build a better product together.

Documentation

You can find the detailed change lists & upgrade checklists on these pages:

• InterSystems IRIS
• InterSystems IRIS for Health
• HealthShare Health Connect

Early Access Programs (EAPs)

There are many EAPs available now. Check out this page and register to those you are interested.

The 2026.1 release of InterSystems IRIS® data platform, InterSystems IRIS^® for Health^TM, and HealthShare^® Health Connect is now Generally Available (GA). This is an Extended Maintenance (EM) release.

The Interoperability user interface project has continued from 2025.1 and has incorporated many of the items that you – our customers and partners – have suggested and observed.  We are continuing to invest in feedback and updating this important user experience.  In the latest release, 2026.1 for IRIS, IRIS for Health, Health Connect and Health Connect Cloud, the BPL Editor and Message Viewer/Visual Trace applications are now available for opt-in!
NOTE:

• Existing users can switch between the modernized and standard experiences.

Hi Guys,

I get a Quit argument not allowed error in an if block how can I fix this?

Hi Community,

We’re excited to introduce two new Global Masters milestone badges that recognize outstanding long-term contribution on the Developer Community.

These badges are part of the Global Masters program and reward members who reach major publishing and participation milestones on DC.

More badges and updates are coming soon - stay tuned 😊

	🏆 Legend Author Awarded for publishing 100 articles on the Developer Community.	100,000 points
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Hi!
We are deploying the iris image in a Kubernetes environment and the cluster state is "Hung" , looking the alerts endpoint we get 2 alerts:

[
  {
     "time":"2026-03-24T13:45:44.548Z",
     "severity":"2",
     "message":"System appears to have failed over from node a69a9f137593"
  },
  {
     "time":"2026-03-24T13:46:30.274Z",
     "severity":"2",
     "message":"Error: <PROTECT>KillAlive+1^%SYS.CDIRECT in SERVERS"
  }
]
Any idea / help where those are comming from and how to address them?

Hi Communtiy,
I am a begineer who is working and trying to understand Intersystems. I am developing an Ensemble interface which receives a XML message and converts it into HL7 format without using enslib.HL7 classes. 
Requirement

SetUp:

I have created the following Task to kick off a Ens.BusinessService to execute a SQL query and process the results

Class OSU.Workday.TerminationsTask Extends %SYS.Task.Definition
{

Parameter TaskName As STRING = "OSU - Workday Termination Update";

Method OnTask() As %Status
{
    #Dim sc as %Status
    #Dim ex as %Exception.AbstractException
    
    set sc = $$$OK

    try{
        // create the service
        #Dim tService As OSU.DataSource.Workday.TermService
        Set tServiceConfigName = "OSU.DataSource.Workday.

Hello, I am working with @Alberto Fuentes https://openexchange.intersystems.com/package/workshop-iris-oauth2.

I wonder how do I get a token to send to the resserver?

I tried calling "token_endpoint" : "https://webserver/authserver/oauth2/token"

The response was "error":"invalid_request","error_description":"Unknown grant_type"

I wonder what needs to be in the request body? Is it a GET or POST?