Question Matthias Thon · Nov 18, 2025

Hello 

I'm using from visual code. My routines are server-side files. If I try to search patterns in files (e.g find all routines containing the string "version=3") , the search runs but didn't find anything. If I do the same search from the management portal, it finds all routines including this pattern with a good performance.

regards Matthias

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Article Yuri Marx · Nov 18, 2025 11m read

Modern data architectures utilize real-time data capture, transformation, movement, and loading solutions to build data lakes, analytical warehouses, and big data repositories. It enables the analysis of data from various sources without impacting the operations that use them. To achieve this, establishing a continuous, scalable, elastic, and robust data flow is essential. The most prevalent method for that is through the CDC (Change Data Capture)  technique. CDC monitors for small data set production, automatically captures this data, and delivers it to one or more recipients, including analytical data repositories. The major benefit is the elimination of the D+1 delay in analysis, as data is detected at the source as soon as it is produced, and later is replicated to the destination.

This article will demonstrate the two most common data sources for CDC scenarios, both as a source and a destination. For the data source (origin), we will explore the CDC in SQL databases and CSV files. For the data destination, we will use a columnar database (a typical high-performance analytical database scenario) and a Kafka topic (a standard approach for streaming data to the cloud and/or to multiple real-time data consumers).

Overview

This article will provide a sample for the following interoperability scenario:

 

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Announcement Larry Finlayson · Nov 17, 2025
    HealthShare Unified Care Record Overview – Virtual  December 15-16, 2025

    Overview of HealthShare Unified Care Record® architecture, data flows, consent, and notifications
    This 2-day course provides an overview of HealthShare Unified Care Record®. It focuses on architecture, data flows, consent, alerts, user management and terminology.
    This non-technical course provides an introduction to the product for those who do not need the detail provided in the 5-day HealthShare Unified Care Record Fundamentals class.
    This course is intended for those needing an understanding of Unified Care

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Announcement Larry Finlayson · Nov 17, 2025
    Building and Managing HL7 Integrations – In Person December 15-19, 2025 9:00am-5:00pm EST

    Build, configure, and manage HL7® V2 interfaces using InterSystems integration technologies.
    This healthcare-focused 5-day course teaches implementation partners, integrators and analysts how to rapidly build HL7 integration solutions.
    Students build a production that processes and routes HL7 messages.
    Students learn how to work with the pre-built HL7 business services, business processes and business operations to receive and send HL7 messages.
    Students also learn how to transform HL7 messages

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Announcement Anastasia Dyubaylo · Nov 11, 2025

Hey Community,

We're pleased to invite everyone to the upcoming kick-off Webinar for InterSystems "Bringing Ideas to Reality" Contest!

During the webinar, our speakers will explore the Community Opportunity Ideas from the InterSystems Ideas Portal, which are the topics of this programming contest. They will show how to develop, build, and deploy applications using the InterSystems IRIS data platform.

Date & Time: Monday, November 17 – 10:30 am EST | 4:30 pm CET  

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Question Rodolfo Pscheidt Jr · Nov 6, 2025

Hi community
I have a persistent data class where there are some properties that contain underscores in their names, for example:
Property "client_name" As %String(MAXLEN = 250) [ SqlFieldName = client_name ];
In Architect, I would like to use this property in an expression, in this field:

But I can't figure it out. If I use %source.client_name, it gives a compilation error. If I use %source."client_name", it treats it as the string "client_name" instead of getting the value from the field. Any suggestions on how to do this?

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Article Robert Cemper · Nov 16, 2025 2m read

In my previous article, I structured network communications
in these 3 possible layers, and covered the last

  • Client <---> Transport
  • Server <---> Transport
  • Client <---> Server

In fact, you have the most control over the last one.
The IRIS side as a server is yours and under your full control. 
Up to now, the Transport layer was assumed to be as passive as a bare wire.

This assumption should be verified. I once met a Windows environment with
a quite surprising setup where a Firewall-like filter was isolating internal
processes and causing a lot of trouble.

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Article Robert Cemper · Nov 16, 2025 3m read

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

  • Client <---> Transport
  • Server <---> Transport
  • Client <---> Server

The last one is probably the easiest  to check, while the other 
two deal with the same counterpart just from opposite sides.

?  Do both ends use the same communication protocol ?

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Discussion Dmitry Maslennikov · Nov 14, 2025

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.

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Article sween · Nov 12, 2025 9m read

Power your IrisCluster serviceTemplate with kube-vip

If you're running IRIS in a mirrored IrisCluster for HA in Kubernetes, the question of providing a Mirror VIP (Virtual IP) becomes relevant. Virtual IP offers a way for downstream systems to interact with IRIS using one IP address. Even when a failover happens, downstream systems can reconnect to the same IP address and continue working.

The lead in above was stolen (gaffled, jacked, pilfered) from techniques shared to the community for vips across public clouds with IRIS by @Eduard Lebedyuk ...

Articles: ☁ vip-aws | vip-gcp | vip-azure

This version strives to solve the same challenges for IRIS on Kubernetes when being deployed via MAAS, on prem, and possibly yet to be realized using cloud mechanics with Manged Kubernetes Services.  

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Article Tani Frankel · Jan 14, 2025 6m read

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.

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Question Touggourt · Nov 13, 2025

Hi guys,

Is it bad to have too many Business Services in a production and what's the limit, I'm looking to convert our system tasks (around 30 of them) into Business Services and wondering if it's a better option?

Thanks

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Article Robert Cemper · Nov 13, 2025 1m read

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.

I also placed a bunch of Pull Requests on GitHub when I found a problem I could fix.    
Some were accepted and merged, and some were just ignored.     
So if you made a major change and expect a changed review, just let me know.

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Question Robert Dingwell · Nov 12, 2025

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? 

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Question Niklas Thilmont · Nov 17, 2021

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:

  1. User Opens a page, <my-iris-instance>/my-app/index.html, index.html being a static file
  2. User is redirected to the default IRIS Login page since no session is present
  3. User logs in
  4. User gets redirected back to index.html
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Question Kevin Mayfield · Nov 6, 2025

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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Article Ariel Glikman · Jan 13, 2025 3m read

You may have noticed that to configure a mirror for InterSystems IRIS for Health and HealthShare® Health Connect there is a special requirement. I wanted to go through it step by step in this article.

This assumes you have already configured the second failover member and confirmed a successful failover member status in the mirror monitor:

Step 1:Enable HS_Services user (on backup and primary

Step 2: Switch to Namespace HSSYS and go to Interoperability > Configure > Credentials. Enter the Password for your predefined HS_Services user (on backup and primary)

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Question Jean Millette · Oct 15, 2025

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:

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