Chasing errors or misbehavior in the network can be quite a challenge.
Differently to a local application on the DB server, you always have at least 3 players:

• A client to place a request
• some kind of transport layer
• and a server to provide a reply.

This results in a minimum of 3 possible communication layers

Over the past several years, the InterSystems Developer Community has accumulated more than 1,000 open-source projects. Many of them serve as examples and learning materials — but a significant number have become useful tools, libraries, integrations, and real-world components used in production.

Some of these projects are mine, and like many community developers, I’ve seen the same recurring problem:

• It’s easy to create an open-source project.
• It’s hard to maintain, support, and develop it sustainably — especially without funding.

Writing code is one thing.
Supporting it for years, keeping up with new IRIS versions, building CI pipelines, writing documentation, fixing issues, reviewing PRs — all of this demands both time and motivation, and the biggest motivator is often financial support.

This is not a new challenge.
The global open-source world has faced this for decades and has developed various models to support OSS ecosystems.

I believe it’s time for the InterSystems community to start a discussion about adopting a similar model.

Hey Community,

We're happy to invite you to a LinkedIn Live session in Dutch

🎤 Data exchange in healthcare according to the FHIR standard with Python 🎤

Event details:
📅 Date: Thursday, November 27th
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Using embedded Python while building your InterSystems-based solution can add very powerful and deep capabilities to your toolbox.

I'd like to share one sample use-case I encountered - enabling a CDC (Change Data Capture) for a mongoDB Collection - capturing those changes, digesting them through an Interoperability flow, and eventually updating an EMR via a REST API.

Hi all,

As you know, it is very complicated to debug a Business Service Rest API because the object is created when the applications receive a request, so we cannot have the JobId that we can use to debug.

https://docs.intersystems.com/iris20211/csp/docbook/DocBook.UI.Page.cls?...

So, I'm trying to get the JobId when the class is being created, write a trace in OnInit() method and write the JobId in a log info

If one of your packages on OEX receives a review, you get notified by OEX only of YOUR own package.
The rating reflects the experience of the reviewer with the status found at the time of review.
It is kind of a snapshot and might have changed meanwhile.
Reviews by other members of the community are marked by * in the last column.

Hi,

I'm using the iris for health community edition and I cannot seem to get the FHIR server configuration UI to show up. I was able to create a FHIR server programaticlly but none of the user interface features that the installation guide talks about are available. Once I was created the server I was able to see a Bulk FHIR Coordinator in the management portal, ut that's it. Are the UI features not available in the community edition or do they need to be enabled somehow?

Hey Intersystems Community!

I'm trying to get IRIS to serve static files, including security and redirect to login if no session is present.

This is the flow I am trying to accomplish:

I have a quite complex FHIR Implementation Guide (IG) which is based on several other FHIR IGs. It's likely the versions of IGs conflict with each other.

From what I understand, I would need to load in all the other FHIR IG's first?

I don't actually need FHIR profiles to be in our FHIR Repository - I'm just after terminology and the examples for our test system.

Is it possible to load a FHIR IG just as data? (I think I mean here, ignore the FHIR profiles and dependencies between them)

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Can someone help me understand what type of user error (?) is going on here please?

One one system, I write out a group of $c() values and get the expected results:

USER>for i=250:1:260 { write i," ", $c(i),! }
250 ú
251 û
252 ü
253 ý
254 þ
255 ÿ
256 Ā
257 ā
258 Ă
259 ă
260 Ą

USER>w $zv
IRIS for Windows (x86-64) 2023.1.4 (Build 580U) Fri Apr 19 2024 11:16:07 EDT
USER>

On another system, I get some unexpected results:

I would like to share with you a little trick to customize how messages are displayed in the Message Viewer. In particular, how you can display messages as JSON (instead of the default XML representation).

Introduction

APM normally focuses on the activity of the application but gathering information about system usage gives you important background information that helps understand and manage the performance of your application so I am including the IRIS History Monitor in this series.

In this article I will briefly describe how you start the IRIS or Caché History Monitor to build a record of the system level activity to go with the application activity and performance information you gather. I will also give examples of SQL to access the information.