Hey Developers,

Watch this video to learn about the analytics approach to InterSystems IRIS encryption and how it interacts with in-storage data compression and deduplication compared to storage-level encryption:

⏯ Security Roadmap @ Ready 2025

Hi Community,

Are you looking for resources to help your team onboard? Use these guides to get started!

Updated 04/17/26

Hi Community,

Need to find the most relevant onboarding for your HealthShare Unified Care Record® team? Maximize your team's knowledge and success by diving into this curated list of offerings from InterSystems Learning Services—which includes online and in-person training for a variety of roles in your organization.

Updated 04/17/26

Hi Community,

Looking for a way to onboard your team with InterSystems IRIS® for Health? Unlock the full potential of this platform by using these InterSystems learning resources. With a mix of online and in-person training, you can support various roles in your organization and equip your team for success.

Updated 04/16/26

Hi Community,

You can unlock the full potential of InterSystems IRIS—and help your team onboard—with the full range of InterSystems learning resources offered online and in person, for every role in your organization. Developers, system administrators, data analysts, and integrators can quickly get up to speed.

I'm a huge sci-fi fan, but while I'm fully onboard the Star Wars train (apologies to my fellow Trekkies!), but I've always appreciated the classic episodes of Star Trek from my childhood. The diverse crew of the USS Enterprise, each masterminding their unique roles, is a perfect metaphor for understanding AI agents and their power in projects like Facilis. So, let's embark on an intergalactic mission, leveraging AI as our ship's crew and  boldly go where no man has gone before

Customer support questions span structured data (orders, products 🗃️), unstructured knowledge (docs/FAQs 📚), and live systems (shipping updates 🚚). In this post we’ll ship a compact AI agent that handles all three—using:

• 🧠 Python + smolagents to orchestrate the agent’s “brain”
• 🧰 InterSystems IRIS for SQL, Vector Search (RAG), and Interoperability (a mock shipping status API)

⚡ TL;DR (snack-sized)

• Build a working AI Customer Support Agent with Python + smolagents orchestrating tools on InterSystems IRIS (SQL, Vector Search/RAG, Interoperability for a mock shipping API).

InterSystems FAQ rubric

There is data, such as execution log data, that you do not want to return to its previous state even if a rollback occurs during a transaction. The above requirement can be met by placing that data in the IRISTEMP database, which will not be rolled back.

Temporary Globals and the IRISTEMP Database

By mapping the table entities you do not want to roll back to this database, you can retain the information after the rollback.

Is there a way to omit or skip rollback of some data changes during a transaction rollback? Maybe some sort of "autonomous transaction"?

The issue is with error logging in transaction. For example we may have in nested calls the following structure:
TS
<some code>
<error happens>
TRO 1
<error log to database>
but if this code is in another transaction, and that rolls back we lose error data.

Is there a way to do something like
TS
<some code>
<error happens>
TRO 1

<autonomous transaction start\flag>
<error log to database>

so error log will be stored anyway?

Hi Community,

Enjoy the new video on InterSystems Developers YouTube:

⏯  Resilience by Design - Business Continuity Through Secure Backup @ Ready 2025

With InterSystems industry-standard certification exams, you and your team can get certified to validate your skills and demonstrate your expertise in InterSystems technology. Find the right exam for your role!

Hi Community,

The InterSystems Learning Website has many important iterative courses.

One of the newest features of .Net core 10 with C# 14 is the file-based apps. This feature allows you to execute C# code in a simple .cs file without the need to create a solution, a project, or any of the related structure.

For example you can create a script.cs file using the notepad with the content: 

Console.WriteLine(“This is a script in c#.”);

Then in the command line or the terminal you execute the command:

dotnet run script.cs

There is plenty of information about this new feature of .net 10.

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.

Disclaimer: the following tutorial attempts to install qpdf-12.2.0 and libreoffice-25.8.1 for HSCV2025.8

Examples for Installing qpdf

Linux & Ubuntu

# 1. Download qpdf-12.2.0 AppImage programatically, or manually from https://github.com/qpdf/qpdf/releases/tag/v12.2.0
wget -O qpdf-12.2.0.AppImage https://github.com/qpdf/qpdf/releases/download/v12.2.0/qpdf-12.2.0-x86_64.AppImage

# 2. Make the AppImage executable
chmod +x qpdf-12.2.0.AppImage

# 3. Add executable to system PATH as “qpdf”
sudo mv qpdf-12.2.0.AppImage /usr/local/bin/qpdf

# 4. Verify you’re now running version 12.2.0
qpdf --version

# If running into "AppImages require FUSE to run"
sudo apt install libfuse2

Updated 14/04/26

Before you can start building with InterSystems IRIS, you need a working local or server installation. This guide walks through downloading the distribution and installing IRIS on Windows in a straightforward way, focusing on the steps and decisions that matter in a development setup.

I’ll cover where to get the appropriate version, what prerequisites to check before installing, and how to run through the installer on your platform. The goal is to get you to a clean, usable environment with minimal friction, so you can move on to writing code, exploring the data platform, and integrating with your existing tools.

To download a Community version, please read this article: How to get InterSystems IRIS Community Edition. It explains the different ways to obtain InterSystems IRIS Community Edition, highlighting options for local, containerized, and cloud-based setups. It shows how to use Docker to quickly pull and run a ready-to-use IRIS instance. You can also learn how to deploy IRIS in the cloud via marketplaces like AWS to avoid local installation. What's important here, this guide walks through downloading an install kit from the InterSystems Evaluation Service and selecting the right version and platform.

As part of a recent documentation technical project to optimize the search, I needed to use Embedded Python in my ObjectScript code. The main blocker was passing a Python list from a Python class method to a ObjectScript method. Sending the list by reference to the python method, populating it with the Insert() method, and returning the reference to the ObjectScript method resulted in an list with type %SYS.Python, a process that was straightforward but not efficient.
I explored an alternative method: converting a Python list to an ObjectScript list using JSON as the intermediary format.