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Hi Community,
Can't make it to the National Harbor in person? You can still be part of READY 2026 — two streams will be going live during the event.
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The Management Portal doesn't have a native way to switch to Dark Mode. This can be resolved using a Chrome extension called Dark Reader. See the result:
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I'm starting to play more with AI enabled coding.
I've been using Github Copilot inside Visual studio code, which is very good at coming up with autocomplete suggestions that are accurate and useful. (Along with some utter rubbish, naturally).
For web development I'm starting to use Claude Code in VS Code to help create web sites and integrations. I want to see how it can help with IRIS development.
However I can't get claude to read any iris code directly as I'm connected to my server via isfs server connections.
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1-) Introduction
This article reflects my recent experiences at trying to connect an IRIS Business Operation to a secure Kafka Server, using SSL tunnels to encrypt the communications and using SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) password hashing with SCRAM-SHA-512.
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
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Most IRIS developers use $LISTBUILD every day — often without even noticing it.
It is not just a convenient function for building lists. It is also the default internal format used to store row data, global values, and many intermediate structures inside the database engine.
Despite this, the actual binary representation of $LISTBUILD values is rarely discussed. Most developers rely on its behavior, but never look at how the data is really stored.
This article focuses strictly on the binary layout of $LISTBUILD values, based on direct inspection via zzdump.
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This is the second part of an article pair where I walk you through:
- Part I - Intro and Quick Tour (the previous article)
- What is it?
- Spinning up an InterSystems IRIS Cloud Document deployment
- Taking a quick tour of the service via the service UI
- Part II - Sample (Dockerized) Java App (this article)
- Grabbing the connection details and TLS certificate
- Reviewing a simple Java sample that creates a collection, inserts documents, and queries them
- Setting up and running the Java (Dockerized) end‑to‑end sample
As mentioned the goal is to give you a smooth “first run” experience.
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I need a %SYS.Python object that will be accessible from different processes. The goal is to avoid reinitializing the Python object whenever it is called. Ways that I checked and decided that it is NOT what I want:
- %-variables (process variables). Reusing only in the same process
- Save-and-restore via globals. Restoring means heavy initialization, which I want to avoid
Next, my ideas (none of them look like a silver bullet):
- Using Interoperability Production.
Hello, community.
I've been working with Intersystem Caché for two years, and right away I was excited about the rich ecosystem that Caché provides. However, I was disappointed with calls using #call, and I understand that it was a limitation of the time. Well, the frustration is that #call returns null by default, meaning an AJAX request is executed, but there's no hook to retrieve the return from that request. The only way to retrieve the data from that request is by building a callback on the server side using &js<>.
Hi Community!
We have another great initiative for you to sink your teeth into! Following last year's resounding success, we're hosting a new edition of the Demo Games. But with a twist: our North American Sales Engineers have submitted their best demo videos, but this time, you're the ones to take part and win a prize.
Please welcome the North American Demo Showcase! 🎉
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Hi Guys,
I've this Business operation pointing to my DSN as below
where its calling the this method, but for some reason its not recognizing
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What is a Microservice?
A microservice is an architectural style that structures an application as a collection of small, autonomous services. Each component is developed around a specific business capability, can be deployed independently, and is typically managed by a miniature, specialized, self-governing team. (Source: https://microservices.io/)
During my work with customers and also following I often met the
explicit or embedded question: What is this "GLOBALS" ?
I'll try to explain the history to unfold the context.
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Has anyone done this successfully? Customer wants to receive HL7 data over https using OAUTH 2.0 client credentials. I am assuming a custom Operation will be needed? I tried using CoPilot for assistance but was unsuccessful. I am not great with Object script :(
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Hi Team,
We are currently running InterSystems Caché 2018 on an IBM AIX server and would like to configure the Cache instance to start automatically when the server boots or is rebooted.
Could you please provide the recommended steps or any official scripts/guidelines to enable auto-start for the Cache instance (QA2018) on AIX?
Additionally, if there are any best practices or prerequisites (such as filesystem mount options, service dependencies, or startup order) that we should consider, please share those as well.
Thanks,
Ganesh
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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:
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.
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#North American Demo Showcase entry.
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⏯️ AI Assistants for the Unified Care Record Powered by Gemini
In this demo, you will see how Gemini works directly with FHIR data, and how it leverages the harmonized dataset provided by InterSystems Unified Care Record. It also showcases multiple AI assistants helping multiple groups of users, e.g. clinicians, patients.
🗣 Presenter: @Simon Sha, Sales Architect at InterSystems
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#North American Demo Showcase entry.
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⏯️ HL7 Validation Error Profiler: Rapid Insights into Batch HL7 Data Quality Issues
This demo highlights how HL7 validation logs can be transformed into scalable, actionable data quality insights using a lightweight application built on top of Health Connect.
- Batch ingestion and parsing of HL7 validation error logs into structured data
- Aggregation of errors by segment, field, and type to reveal systemic issues
- Interactive dashboard (Streamlit) for filtering, exploration, and root cause analysis
- Rapid identification of top error patterns across entire data feeds
- Natural language chatbot for intent-driven data investigation and querying
- PDF report generation for sharing clear, evidence-based feedback during data source onboarding
Special thanks to @Henry Wojnicki for his contributions to designing and refining the application workflow.
🗣 Presenter: @Lynn Wu, Sales Engineer at InterSystems
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Hi, Community!
Here's another way AI can speed up your processes—take a look! 👇
Generating Transformation Descriptions with the DTL Explainer
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READY is right around the corner, and this year the Application Services team from InterSystems will be hosting a IPM Users GroupMeeting during the conference!This will be held Wednesday, April 29th during lunch from 12:30 – 1:30 (lunch will be served at the meeting room).
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?
Introduction
InterSystems IRIS Adaptive Analytics is an optional extension that provides a business-oriented, virtual data model layer between InterSystems IRIS and popular Business Intelligence (BI) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) client tools. Adaptive Analytics is powered by AtScale, the AtScale documentation can be found at this link: https://documentation.intersystems.atscale.com
This article will showcase some AtScale features that can facilitate data analysis:
- Cube creation
- Excel visualization
- Parallel Period
- Queries
- Snowflake
- Security
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Hi Community,
Enjoy the new video on InterSystems Developers YouTube:
⏯ Resilience by Design - Business Continuity Through Secure Backup @ Ready 2025
