Hi Community,

While writing an article yesterday, I realized I was so busy with people who came to the Developer Community table at the Tech Exchange that I forgot to take photos for you. Luckily, I realized the error of my ways and corrected my behavior accordingly 😉

So, let's look at what happened on Tuesday at the InterSystems Ready 2025! It began with a speech of Scott Gnau about the approach and architecture of InterSystems Data Platform and how it is different from all other DBMSs:

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Hi fellow developers!

Curious if you guys use CreatedAt and LastUpdated properties in your classes?

Created to stamp when the record was created and LastUpdated when it was last updated. Where it can be useful - almost everywhere )) I find it convenient in records sorting (e.g. by creation or last update), in sync (with other systems), and so on, for better analytics.

Do you use it all the time for all the classes?

If don't, why not? What do you use instead?

What property type do you use - %TimeStamp? %DateTime?

What is the best practice to have CreatedAt filled automatically during creation and LastUpdated on every successful save (guess it could be in %OnSave)?

Please share your experience /thoughts?

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Article
· Jun 18 2m read
Options for Python Devs + Poll!

I am writing this post primarily to gather an informal consensus on how developers are using Python in conjunction with IRIS, so please respond to the poll at the end of this article! In the body of the article, I'll give some background on each choice provided, as well as the advantages for each, but feel free to skim over it and just respond to the poll.

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Hey Community!

We're excited to introduce a new way to interact with the Developer Community AI — you can now have a real conversation with it!

Instead of just asking one-off questions, you can chat with DC AI in a more natural, back-and-forth format. This way, whether you're exploring InterSystems technologies, debugging code, or learning something new, DC AI is here to help, just like a fellow developer.

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I am looking to create a Python virtual environment (venv) so that my imported/installed python packages can be separate on different namespaces in IRIS. I am able to go and create an environment, activate it, and install packages, but I am not sure how to ensure that Embedded Python methods actually point to this virtual environment.

Is the best solution to just load the virtual environment at runtime, in each method? That seems like a bad solution. Has anyone run into this and found a good solution?

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Question
· Jun 24
Using %Net.WebSocket.Client

Hi Guys,

I'm trying to use %Net.WebSocket.Client to collect data from a sever,

and part of that I needed to implement Two classes (SX3.Production.HTTP.AdvCredenials & SX3.Production.HTTP.AdvListener) as below for the purpose of Credentials & EventListener properties,

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I am attempting to follow the tutorial at Publishing Web Services Using Caché | Caché Web Services QuickStart Tutorial | Caché & Ensemble 2018.1.4 – 2018.1.11 to build a toy SOAP web-service using Cache but am running into what I suspect are permissions issues, or perhaps setting up the "plumbing" to get an incoming request to call the web-service methods.

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Hi Community,

Enjoy the new video on InterSystems Developers YouTube from our Tech Video Challenge:

⏯ Using Character Slice Index in InterSystems IRIS

https://www.youtube.com/embed/_aYpLVZfiCA
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My HL7 message got "AR" (rejected ack code) and went to the suspended queue. I re-submitted it (without editing it) but forgot to write down the details before doing so. It got "AA" and everything works fine from there.

Now (the next day) I want to check with the downstream system why they returned "AR" initially. Is there a way to search for the original message the got an "AR", along with any returned error message please?

Thanks

W

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Hi all,

We're developing a medical appointment app that connects doctors' schedules to an appointment provider.

The provider is returning us the appointment in the following format:

Thu Jul 03 08:20:00 CEST 2025

It means, 03 july 2025 at 08:20:00 Central European Summer Time (UTC+2)

But we need the following format:

2025-07-03 08:20:00+02:00

Is there any option to convert zone time code (CEST) to a UTC+x ?

How to convert zone time code (CEST, CET, ET, EDT, etc..) in its zone time in UTC (UTC+2, UTC+1, UTC-5, etc..) ?

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Hi Community!

I'm super excited to be your on-the-ground reporter for the biggest developer event of the year - InterSystems Ready 2025!

As you may know from previous years, our global summits are always exciting, exhilarating, and packed with valuable knowledge, innovative ideas, and exciting news from InterSystems. This year is no different. But let's not get ahead of ourselves and start from the beginning.

Pre-summit day was, as usual, filled with fun and educational experiences. Those who enjoy playing golf (I among them) got up at the crack of dawn to tee off before the sun got too high up. Here's our dream team in action:

@sween, @Mark Bolinsky, @Anzelem Sanyatwe, @Iryna Mykhailova

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I have a class with a projection that creates some persistent classes (chunks) and a non-persistent "Daemon" class that I want to have running in the background, doing some processing. The daemon needs to look at the "chunk" classes, and I want it to be simple to start the daemon -- I am currently calling the daemon's start method at the end of the CreateProjection method.

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All,

At READY 2025 we will have a CCR User Group Breakfast for HealthShare and TrakCare customers on Wednesday at 7:30am (presentation starts at 7:45am). Topics will include:

  • Review of Self Service Best Practice Dashboard
  • Recent CCR New Features and Enhancements
  • Active CCR Feature Beta Programs
  • Summer and Fall Roadmap
  • Q&A

We will meet in the Jackson meeting room. Visit the Meeting Counter to have it added to your schedule or comment below to request an invite.

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Hi Community!

We have great news for those of you who are interested in what's happening at the InterSystems Ready 2025 but couldn't attend in person. All the keynotes are being streamed! Moreover, you can watch them afterwards if they happen at an inopportune time.

Keynotes from Day 1 are already ready 😉

https://www.youtube.com/embed/mbqKoXBB114
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Welcome everyone!

Hope to meet you here.

Let's have a dedicated discussion thread about Ready 2025. Please post your impressions! Ideas! Inspiration! Photos!

Keynotes are streamed live so even if you're not in Orlando, you can still join!

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Hello, good morning, thank you so much for reading this question. ☺️🙂👍

We are developing a code to get information about our Production's items: services, processes and operations.

We know we can get various configurations of a given item: Category, Port, Enabled...

But we wonder how we could get the date time of the last mesage (most recent) received in an item.

To give a code snippet a small section of the code we have developed (and tested), it looks like:

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Hi Community,

Enjoy the new video on InterSystems Developers YouTube:

⏯ Improving Patient Data Access with InterSystems Health Gateway Service @ Global Summit 2024

https://www.youtube.com/embed/HeWshZloE-A
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Hi,

I'm trying to install NodeJs (javascript runtime environment) in IRIS container so I can execute JS files?
It was easy to install it outside the container but I got the attached error when trying in the container:

Thanks

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