Hi Community,

Please welcome @Ashok Kumar T as our new Moderator in the Developer Community Team! 🎉

Let's greet Ashok with a round of applause and look at his bio!

I'm happy to share that I was invited to present on the Developer Ecosystem and how it helps everyone become better programmers at the meetup during Iberia READY 2026. Thus, I had a chance to participate in this great event. And you have a chance to see how it went on, because as usual, I will share photos and impressions!

When I arrived, the first thing I saw was the Developer Zone and my presentation about the Ecosystem 🤩

Introduction

The standard %Net.HttpRequest library in InterSystems IRIS is powerful and comprehensive, but it can be verbose for simple operations. Writing an HTTP request often requires several lines of code to instantiate the class, configure the server, the port, HTTPS, add headers, and finally send the request.

When testing in the terminal, this configuration quickly becomes too heavy, and usually ends up with the creation of temporary methods...

FastHTTP was designed to address this need. This utility class provides a fluent and concise interface to perform HTTP calls in a single line, while automatically handling the underlying complexity (SSL/TLS, URL parsing, JSON encoding, headers, etc.).

Hi Developers,

We are happy to announce the first InterSystems online programming contest of the year:

🏆 InterSystems Full Stack Contest 🏆

Duration: February 2 - March 1, 2026

Prize pool: $12,000

I need to reproduce a table (in fact a view, but let's start with a simple table 😊) in IRIS as the currently used in Oracle.

I need to expose/project one column to JDBC as CLOB, in my class I have the corresponding property defined as:

Property GlobStream As %Stream.GlobalCharacter;

In JDBC this column is projected as LONGVARCHAR, this is compliant with the documentation but I need to project it as CLOB.

In addition, I'm no expert in JDBC but wit seems that LONGVARCHAR has a Maximum Length 32,700 characters in JDBC, not quite enough for an arbitrary stream.

Hi Community,

Enjoy the new video on InterSystems Developers YouTube:

 ⏯  InterSystems IRIS & IRIS Health as a Managed Service @ Ready 2025 

One objective of vectorization is to render unstructured text more machine-usable. Vector embeddings accomplish this by encoding the semantics of text as high-dimensional numeric vectors, which can be employed by advanced search algorithms (normally an approximate nearest neighbor algorithm like Hierarchical Navigable Small World). This not only improves our ability to interact with unstructured text programmatically but makes it searchable by context and by meaning beyond what is captured literally by keyword.

Keywords:  IRIS, Agents, Agentic AI, Smart Apps

Motive?

Transformer based LLMs appear to be a pretty good "universal logical–symbolic abstractor".  They started to bridge up the previous abyss among human languages and machine languages, which in essence are all logic symbols that could be mapped into the same vector space. 

Objective?

Wondering for 3 years we might be able to just use English (etc human natural languages) to do IRIS implementations as well, one day. 

Hey Developers,

It's time to announce the Top InterSystems Developer Community Authors of 2025 🎉

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

This is an excellent candidate for a developer community post (like Dev.to, Medium, or the InterSystems Community). It bridges the gap between high-level architecture and hands-on implementation.

Here is the summarized article format.

Building a Robust Asynchronous Queue Manager with InterSystems IRIS and Angular

As applications scale, handling heavy computational tasks synchronously becomes a bottleneck. Whether it's processing large data sets, sending high-volume emails, or managing API integrations, a decoupled architecture is essential.

Project Overview:

The Clinical Staff Master Data Management (CSMDM) system is a full-stack healthcare integration application built on InterSystems IRIS for Health. It centralizes and standardizes clinical staff metadata into a single authoritative repository, exposed through RESTful CRUD APIs and reusable backend methods.

The platform eliminates fragmented lookup tables and hardcoded mappings that commonly cause errors in HL7 and FHIR integration workflows, ensuring data consistency and interface reliability.

Application to Other Domains:

Hi everyone, 

This is the first time I'm dealing  with a request of modifying a variable value in a UDF OnSQLTrigger on InterSystems TrakCare.

I can't find any documentation to address this issue, but basically, my goal is to modify the value of one of the fields in a table when it is first inserted. 

This is basically what the code should do, namely, to change the content of the %d variable at a specific key. 

Hi developers!

I'm testing vibecoding with ObjectScript and my silicon friend created a code-block that got me thinking "what's wrong"?

Here is the piece of code:

for i=0:1:(json.%Size()-1) {

set p = json.%Get(i)

if (p="value1")!(p="value2") {

quit1
}

AI wanted to quit from a method with a return value. Good intention, but bad use of the command.

And ObjectScript compiler compiles this code with no error(?) (syntax linter in VSCode says it's a syntax, kudos @Brett Saviano ).

But in action, it produces <COMMAND>, of course.

Hi Developers!

Currently I have 2000+ lines in a class, and I think it's a lot already? What are the best practices? 

if 10K lines OK? How do you cope with it? Please share?

Hi, Community!

👩‍⚕️If you need to access clinical data at scale, the InterSystems Bulk FHIR Coordinator can help!

Using the InterSystems Bulk FHIR Coordinator to Extract Clinical Data

Hey Community,

More than 1,100 applications are already available for everyone to download on the InterSystems Open Exchange. 

And now it's time to announce the best developers and the most downloaded apps of 2025!

Let's take a closer look at our heroes and their apps:

We use local containers  a lot for evaluation and development with Health Connect and other IRIS based applications.

When evaluating Podman Desktop on Windows as replacement for Docker Desktop, we are experiencing an issue with the durable %SYS:

When I build docker containers my build log usually looks like this:

Hello Team,

I am currently working with the CD Ruby machine, which is connected through DIGI. When I click on the “Test Link” option on the instrument, I can see the following behavior in Wireshark logs:

Ensemble sends an ACK (06) after receiving ENQ (05), followed by EOT (04) (somewhat like above photo). However, when another ENQ is received, Ensemble does not send an ACK in response. As a result, the instrument displays a failure message.

Also attaching the Ensemble settings:

Hello DC community, 

InterSystems Certification is currently developing a certification exam for ObjectScript developers, and if you match the exam candidate description below, we would like you to beta test the exam! The exam will be available for beta testing starting February 18th, 2026. 

Beta testing will be completed May 4, 2026.

What are my responsibilities as a beta tester?

In the previous article, we examined how we can use the %CSP.Request and %CSP.Response classes to test a REST API without having the API fully set up and accessible across a network with an authentication mechanism. In this article, we will build on that foundation to perform some simple unit testing of one of our REST API methods.

Hey Developers,

Watch this video to learn about automating the provisioning and management of FHIR services:

     ⏯ Automating Provisioning and Management of FHIR Services @ Ready 2025

We are attempting to "Repoint" old class data to new class data to save disk space and data redundancy across multiple tables. This works to a point.  In essence the two classes are sharing the same data / Index / stream globals.  But if an ID in the Old_Class is opened, a property is modified, and saved the property that is in the New_Class (but not in the Old_Class) is NULLed / blanked.

Simplified explanation of data and what’s occurring.

Intersystems IRIS Productions provide a powerful framework for connecting disparate systems across various protocols and message formats in a reliable, observable, and scalable manner. intersystems_pyprod, short for InterSystems Python Productions, is a Python library that enables developers to build these interoperability components entirely in Python. Designed for flexibility, it supports a hybrid approach: you can seamlessly mix new Python-based components with existing ObjectScript-based ones, leveraging your established IRIS infrastructure. Once defined, these Python components are

Welcome to the finale of our journey in building MAIS.

• In Part 1, we constructed the agnostic "Brain" using LiteLLM and IRIS.
• In Part 2, we designed the "Persona", mastering Dynamic Prompt Engineering and the ReAct theory.

Now, the stage is set. Our agents are ready, defined, and eager to work. However, they remain frozen in time. They require a mechanism to drive the conversation, execute their requested tools, and pass the baton to one another.

Hi Community,

We're happy to announce that registration for the event of the year — InterSystems Ready 2026 — is now open. This is the premier global summit for the InterSystems technology community – a gathering of industry leaders and developers at the forefront of their respective industries. This event attracts a wide range of attendees, from C-level executives, top subject matter experts and visionary leaders, managers, directors and developers. Attendees gather to network with peers, connect with InterSystems partners, learn best practices and get a firsthand look at upcoming features and future innovations from InterSystems.

➡️ InterSystems Ready 2026

🗓 Dates: April 27 - 30, 2026

📍 Location: Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center, National Harbor, Maryland, USA

Hi,

I'm having a problem with %JSON.Adaptor and "list of" binding.

For exemple, this class with a property "oazisCode As list of %String".

Class User.ADGroup Extends (%Persistent, %JSON.Adaptor)

{
/// Code interne
Property code As %String;

/// Libellé
Property text As %String(MAXLEN = "");

Property oazisCode As list Of %String;

}

The first time call to %JSONImport works properly

s r = ##class(User.ADGroup).%New()
s json = {"code": "123", "text":"456", "oazisCode": ["1","2"]}
d r.%JSONImport(json)
w r.oazisCode.Size
2

Hi Developers!

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