Discussion Benjamin De Boe · Oct 29, 2025

Hi, 

We very much appreciate the interest in the Developer Community for IRIS Vector Search and hope our technology has helped many of you build innovative applications or advanced your R&D efforts. With a dedicated index, integrated embeddings generation, and deep integration with our SQL engine now available in InterSystems IRIS, we're looking at the next frontier, and would love to hear your feedback on the technology to prioritize our investments.

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Article sween · Oct 28, 2025 3m read

InterSystems IRIS Community Edition HAOS Add-On

Run InterSystems IRIS inside of Home Assistant, as an add-on.  Before you dismiss this article possibly under the guise that this is just a gimmick, Id like you to step back and take a look at how easy it is to launch IRIS based applications using this platform.  If you look at Open Exchange, you will see dozens of dozens of applications worthy of launching while they are basically hung out to dry as gitware, and launchable if you want to get into a laptop battle with containerd or Docker.  With a simple git repo, and a specification, you can now build your app on IRIS, and make it launchable through a marketplace with limited hassle to your end users.  Run it along side Ollama and the LLM/LAM implementations, expose anything in IRIS as a sensor or expose an endpoint for interaction in your IRIS app to interact with anything you've connected to HAOS.  Wanna restart an IRIS production with a flick of a physical switch or Assisted AI? You can do it with this add-on, or your own, right alongside the home automation hackers.

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Article Andreas Schneider · Apr 23, 2025 3m read

The first part of this article provides all the background information. It also includes links to the DATATYPE_SAMPLE database, which you can use to follow along with the examples.

In that section, we explored an error type ("Access Failure") that is easy to detect, as it immediately triggers a clear error message when attempting to read the data via the database driver.

The errors discussed in this section are more subtle and harder to detect.

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Question Mark OReilly · Oct 27, 2025

We are trying to mark a hl7 nack as "completed" to ignore an error and not generate the alert. 

We can remove from adding a managed alert or add another router in 

When Nack of CR of 

Date of birth in PID.7 must not be empty

We tried via this but i think it's only for an actual IRIS alert errror not the HL7 error code/description 

E*Date of birth in PID.7 must not be empty=C,:?CR=C,:?R=RF,:?E=S,:~=S,:?A=C,:*=S,:I?=W,:T?=C

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Article Kate Lau · Oct 13, 2025 13m read

Hi all,

Let's do some more work about the testing data generation and export the result by REST API.😁

Here, I would like to reuse the datagen.restservice class which built in the pervious article Writing a REST api service for exporting the generated patient data in .csv

This time, we are planning to generate a FHIR bundle include multiple resources for testing the FHIR repository.

Here is some reference for you, if you want to know mare about FHIR The Concept of FHIR: A Healthcare Data Standard Designed for the Future

OK... Let's start😆

1. Create a new utility class datagen.utli.

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Question Nimisha Joseph · Oct 27, 2025

Hi,

I’m working in Ensemble and trying to resend a message from the Message Viewer. The message is in XML format.

When I try to edit the XML before resending,

  • I open the message in the Message Viewer.
  • I click Resend or Edit & Resend.

I’m looking for guidance on:

  1. How to make a message editable in Message Viewer.
  2. The proper way to modify an XML message before resending in Ensemble/IRIS.

Any suggestions or examples would be very helpful.

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Question PaulSomebody · Oct 24, 2025

Hi,

  We have some concerns on how to implement FHIR, do we do facade?, how do we get resources?, what is a resource?, is a resource "Patient" or an instance of a patient?, How can we have a FHIR repository AND send the patient details to healthshare MPI?

  Has anyone correctly created a FHIR server that has custom methods?, handles "normal" methods and forwards onto Healthshare MPI , processing the response and creates a accurate FHIR response back to the calling system.

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Article Arsh Hasan · Oct 27, 2025 1m read

I was facing the same issue as Jerry faced when connecting IRIS to SQL server. My ODBC connection is configured to authenticate via windows authentication.

Configure IRIS ODBC connection with Windows authentication using a
 

How I fixed it for myself?

Root cause

  • The SQL Server DSN was set to Windows Integrated Authentication.
  • IRIS opens the ODBC connection via irisdb.exe, which runs under the IRIS Windows services’ logon account.
  • My IRIS services were running as LocalSystem, so SQL saw the machine account<ORGNAME>\<ASSETID>$.
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Question Dmitrij Vladimirov · Oct 16, 2025

Hi community.
I have a query:

SELECT
nameField,
dateField,
anotherDateField
FROM
(      
SELECTMIN(someDate) as dateField,       
nameField,
anotherDateField
FROM $$$SOURCEWHERE $$$RESTRICT               
GROUPby someOtherField    
)
WHERE dateField >= anotherDateField

This query should filter the data by the minimum value of the somDate field, but it doesn't. It displays all values ​​together, regardless of the external filter. The exact same query (without the $$$ tokens, of course) works fine in a regular SQL runtime.
My guess is that the $$$RESTRICT does this

WHERE source.
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Article Robert Cemper · Oct 21, 2025 2m read

If you start with InterSystems ObjectScript, you will meet the XECUTE command.
And beginners may ask: Where and Why may I need to use this ?

The official documentation has a rich collection of code snippets. No practical case.
Just recently, I met a use case that I'd like to share with you.

The scenario:

When you build an IRIS container with Docker, then, in most cases,
you run the  initialization script  

iris session iris < iris.script 

This means you open a terminal session and feed your input line-by-line from the script.
And that's fine and easy if you call methods, or functions, or commands.

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Article sween · May 14, 2025 7m read

Real Time FHIR® to OMOP Transformation

This part of the OMOP Journey,  we reflect before attempting to challenge Scylla on how fortunate we are that InterSystems OMOP transform is built on the Bulk FHIR Export as the source payload.  This opens up hands off interoperability with the InterSystems OMOP transform across several FHIR® vendors, this time with the Google Cloud Healthcare API.

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InterSystems Official Dipak Bhujbal · Oct 24, 2025

Overview 

This release focuses on upgrade reliability, security expansion, and support experience improvements across multiple InterSystems Cloud Services. With this version, all major offerings—including FHIR Server, InterSystems Data Fabric Studio (IDS), IDS with Supply Chain, and IRIS Managed Services—now support Advanced Security, providing a unified and enhanced security posture.

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Article sween · Oct 23, 2025 9m read

IKO Helm Status: WFH

Here is an option for your headspace if you are designing an multi-cluster architecture and the Operator is an FTE to the design.  You can run the Operator from a central Kubernetes cluster (A), and point it to another Kubernetes cluster (B), so that when the apply an IrisCluster to B the Operator works remotely on A and plans the cluster accordingly on B.  This design keeps some resource heat off the actual workload cluster, spares us some serviceaccounts/rbac and gives us only one operator deployment to worry about so we can concentrate on the IRIS workloads.

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Article Murray Oldfield · Aug 26, 2025 6m read

I am regularly contacted by customers about memory sizing when they get alerts that free memory is below a threshold, or they observe that free memory has dropped suddenly. Is there a problem? Will their application stop working because it has run out of memory for running system and application processes? Nearly always, the answer is no, there is nothing to worry about. But that simple answer is usually not enough. What's going on?

Consider the chart below. It is showing the output of the free metric in vmstat.

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Article Kurro Lopez · Oct 23, 2025 1m read

Hi all,

This is a quick tip about how to use case insensitive URL in REST API.

If you have a class that extends from %CSP.REST and Ens.BusinessService, to create a REST API service, and you have defined your WebApplication in lowercase

XData UrlMap [ XMLNamespace = "http://www.intersystems.com/urlmap" ]
{
<Routes>
    <Route Url="/user" Method="POST" Call="User"/>
    <Route Url="/login" Method="POST" Call="Login"/>
</Routes>
}

Only accepts the url in lowercase, i.e. http://myserver/myproduction/user

If you have any uppercase character, the url doesn't work.

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Discussion Luis Angel Pérez Ramos · Apr 28, 2025

It's been a while since the new UI for Productions and DTL was published as a preview and I would like to know your opinions about it.

WARNING: This is a personal opinion, totally personal and not related with InterSystems Corporation.

I'm going to start with the Interoperabilty screen:

Production screen:

The style is sober and without frills, following the line of cloud services design, I like it.

But, always a but...or maybe two:

In my opinion there is too much information, the left menu is superfluous, it's true that you can collapse it, but I don't want to do it each time that I use the

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Article Robert Cemper · Oct 23, 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 Jorge Gea Martínez · Oct 22, 2025

Hi,

I'm trying to run some scripting in Windows. I'm using an instance of the IRISHealth community. 

I'm just trying to run a simple sequence of commands so I can run irissession in a non-interactive mode, like:

irissession.exe IRISHEALTH -U "%SYS" < "myprogram.iris"

 

The contents of my program.iris are, for instance, these ones, to run an online backup:

set$namespace="%SYS"set cbk = "C:\Test1.cbk"set log = "C:\Test1.
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Question Christine Nyamu · Oct 22, 2025

Hello. I need to transform a message

FROM:

MSH|^~\&|
SCH||61490||
PID|1||
RGS|1||1
AIS|1||
AIS|2||
AIS|3||
AIL|1||
AIP|1||

TO:

MSH|^~\&|
SCH||61490||
PID|1||
RGS|1||1
AIS|1||
AIL|1||
AIP|1||
RGS|1||1
AIS|2||
AIL|1||
AIP|1||
RGS|1||1
AIS|3||
AIL|1||
AIP|1||

The RGS, AIS, AIL and AIP are all under the RGS group. The one RGS segment that comes in will be copied across the group. If 3 AIS segments come in then I need 3 RGS groups, if 2 I need 2 RGS groups etc.

In my DTL (screenshot below) I have currently hardcoded the RGS index (1,2,3) but this will not be sufficient incase 4 AIS segments are sent in.

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InterSystems Official Daniel Palevski · Oct 22, 2025

The 2025.1.2 and 2024.1.5 maintenance releases of InterSystems IRIS® data platform, InterSystems IRIS® for HealthTM, and HealthShare® Health Connect are now Generally Available (GA).

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Article Harshitha · Oct 22, 2025 2m read

Hello community,

I wanted to share my experience about working on Large Data projects. Over the years, I have had the opportunity to handle massive patient data, payor data and transactional logs while working in an hospital industry. I have had the chance to build huge reports which had to be written using advanced logics fetching data across multiple tables whose indexing was not helping me write efficient code.

Here is what I have learned about managing large data efficiently.

Choosing the right data access method.

As we all here in the community are aware of, IRIS provides multiple ways to access data. Choosing the right method, depends on the requirement.

  • Direct Global Access: Fastest for bulk read/write operations. For example, if i have to traverse through indexes and fetch patient data, I can loop through the globals to process millions of records. This will save a lot of time.
Set ToDate=+HSet FromDate=+$H-1ForSet FromDate=$O(^PatientD("Date",FromDate)) Quit:FromDate>ToDate  Do
. Set PatId=""ForSet PatId=$Order(^PatientD("Date",FromDate,PatID)) Quit:PatId=""Do
. . Write$Get(^PatientD("Date",FromDate,PatID)),!
  • Using SQL: Useful for reporting or analytical requirements, though slower for huge data sets.
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Question Thomas Haig · Oct 21, 2025

Hi all,
Recently we were experimenting with having a variable target on a routing rule and noticed some interesting behaviour, code below.

<rulename="My Rule"disabled="false"><constraintname="docCategory"value="Generic.2.3.1"></constraint><whencondition="((Document.{MSH:MessageType.triggerevent}=&quot;A43&quot;))"><sendtransform=""target="To&quot; _(pContext.Document.GetValueAt(&quot;MSH:SendingFacility&quot;))_&quot;FromServiceTCPOpr"></send></when></rule>


This code compiles and works.

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Article sween · Oct 21, 2025 4m read

"Haul" a Portable Registry for Airgapped IrisClusters

Rancher Government Hauler streamlines deploying and maintaining InterSystems container workloads in air-gapped environments by simplifying how you package and move required assets. It treats container images, Helm charts, and other files as content and collections, letting you fetch, store, and distribute them declaratively or via CLI — without changing your existing workflows.   Meaning your charts and what have yous, can have conditionals on your pull locations in Helm values, etc. 

If you have been tracking how HealthShare is being deployed via IPM Packages, you can certainly appreciate the adoption of OCI compliance storage for the packages themselves using ORAS... which is core to the Hauler solution.

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Discussion Yone Moreno Jiménez · Aug 1, 2025

Hello InterSystems Community,

I hope you're all doing well. I'm reaching out to ask if there's any way to enable a dark theme or dark mode for the HealthShare Management Portal.

Background

I have a visual impairment (amblyopia/lazy eye) which means I'm nearly blind in one eye. Like many people with visual difficulties, I find that bright white backgrounds and interfaces cause significant eye strain and fatigue. This makes it challenging to work with the Management Portal for extended periods.

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Article Vachan C Rannore · Sep 15, 2025 2m read

Starting out with ObjectScript, it is really exciting, but it can also feel a little unusual if you're used to other languages. Many beginners trip over the same hurdles, so here are a few "gotchas" you'll want to watch out for. (Also few friendly tips to avoid them)


NAMING THINGS RANDOMLY

We have all been guilty of naming something Test1 or MyClass just to move on quickly. But once your project grows, these names become a nightmare. 

➡ Pick clear, consistent names from the start. Think of it as leaving breadcrumbs for your future self and your teammates.


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