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As 2026 gets underway, we’d love to hear what you’re focusing on this year.

This discussion is a space to share your resolutions, goals, and focus areas for 2026 - technical, professional or community-related.

These don’t have to be traditional New Year’s resolutions. Think of them as intentions or priorities you’d like to work on this year.

💬 What you can share

• Skills or technologies you want to learn
• Projects you want to start or continue
• Things you want to improve at work
• Events or activities you want to take part in
• Anything you’re excited to focus on in 2026

✍️ How to

Hello everyone,

The Certification Team of InterSystems Learning Services is excited to announce the release of our new InterSystems EHR Reports Specialist exam. It is now available for purchase and scheduling in InterSystems exam catalog. This exam tests candidates’ ability to use Logi Report Designer along with TrakCare/Intellicare to design, author, and support InterSystems Reports. For a list of topics covered by the exam, please refer to the exam page. Candidates who successfully pass the exam will receive a digital certification badge that can be shared on social media accounts like LinkedIn.  If you are new to InterSystems Certification, please review our program pages that include information on taking exams, exam policies, FAQ and more.

Hey everyone,

I'm just seeking some guidance and confirmation on what I'm doing for my production health monitoring.

We utilize Grafana to have reporting/monitoring dashboards and I have made a REST API to query the health of our productions. I believe I have everything figured out except for one thing that I'm uncertain about and that is the Production Item Color indicators:

Is there an easy way of being able to figure out the status of an item with the legend above?Ideally, I'd like to have this data in my JSON response.

Hi, Community!

Building integrations with InterSystems products? Find out about the latest UX enhancements available in version 2025.3!

Building Integrations: A New User Experience Version 2025.3

Hi developers!

In a method I need to return a result as a dynamic object aka JSON Object. And here is my logic:

Classmethod Planets() as%DynamicObject {

 set val1="Jupiter"
 set val2="Mars"// this doesn't work! cannot compile
 return {"value1":val1, "value2":val2}

}

So I need to do the following:

Classmethod Planets() as%DynamicObject {

 set val1="Jupiter"
 set val2="Mars"
 set result={}

 set result.value1=val1

 set result.value2=val2

 return result

}

The second case works.Maybe I'm preparing the Dynamic Object in the wrong way?Can we just use variables inside JSON?

Hey everyone.

I have a web service which is receiving XML as a stream, and I'm intending to then correlate the stream into an object. Unfortunately I am hitting a road block where the sender places a large chunk of the XML within a cdata block which is then causing the correlate of %XML.Reader to not work.

The structure of my xml is along the lines of:

<abc><def>010203</def><ghi>040506</ghi><jkl><mno><pqr>070809</pqr><stu>101112</stu></mno></jkl></abc>

I have my objectscript classes built that conform to the above, and the

Hello everyone. I'm currently working on how to implement a solution that makes it possible to include within the response of a BusinessOperation the "RetryCount" for each message.
For Example, we have this message that was retried twice:

This is an HL7.message going through a specific business operation, we did not create a custom one: we used the default implementation EnsLib.HL7.Operation.TCPOperation. This operation should automatically handle retries (infinetely waiting on a response). I found out each Business Operation has this property :

Can we retrieve this information AFTER the message

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can my old account be merged with my new account?

Hi,
I need to create a bundle of synthetic data in order to populate FHIR servers (not mine).

Can I use a predefined ids, or is it possible the one of the servers will not allow using my IDs and replace them with it's automatic numbering?

Hi Community,

We're pleased to invite you to the upcoming webinar in Hebrew:

👉 Debugging InterSystems IRIS & Health Connect: From VS Code Breakpoints to Interoperability Traces 👈

📅 Date & time: Feb 18th, 3:00 PM IDT

When production issues arise, speed and precision matter.This webinar is a practical, tool-driven walkthrough of debugging in InterSystems IRIS (including IRIS for Health) and Health Connect - starting with code-level debugging in VS Code and extending into platform and interoperability diagnostics.We will cover core logging as well as tracing techniques.

Hello Team,

I am trying to duplicate the production flow in the Ensemble 2018 but after doing all the steps (like copying same class file, adapter file, process class file) as production, still the flow is not working.The error is that it is not reaching the operation (which is supposed to store the data), it gets stuck in the processes.Additionally, I am also trying to add a logic where in OUL message if the value of code 20061 > 30mg, it should automatically send another order back to service (OML).

in C++ program with #include iris-callin.h..  The program terminateswhen it tries to execute IRISSECURESTARTA with exit code -1073741515.

const char *username="user", *password="xyz",*exename="Test_Callin";

int termflag = IRIS_PROGMODE|IRIS_TTNONE|IRIS_TTNEVER;

Note: the %Service_Callin setting is Enabled.

Hello, I am trying to get some fields from HL7 message and create a file using BPL. The values I need are in a repeating segment (AIG). Even in the repeating segment, I just want the iteration that has a certain field (AIG:3 populated). With the help of documentation and community posts, I was able to create the BPL to loop through all of AIG and create the file. But when I try to narrow the results even further (AIG:3 present), the process gets stuck. I am not sure I am missing anything or have anything incorrectly set up.

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February 19 · 4:10 PM - Covarrubias The One Calle de Covarrubias, 1, Chamberí, 28010 · Madrid 

The READY agenda is now available!

As you know, InterSystems Iberia READY 2026 was created with the goal of showing where the future of data, interoperability, and artificial intelligence is heading. A perfect opportunity to learn, connect, and help the sector grow. You’re all more than invited, just in case you didn’t know 😉 Little by little, we’re revealing more about an event that will be a turning point for us. We’ll keep you posted. For now, the agenda is ready—what do you think? We believe it’s going to be a very engaging session.

📆 February 19, 2026
📍 Location: Madrid, Covarrubias The

Welcome to the monthly recap of updates and releases to VS Code and InterSystems-related extensions relevant to IRIS developers. We'll break down the updates that are relevant to InterSystems developers with tips on how they can be applied to your day-to-day projects. 

Don’t forget, if you’re migrating from InterSystems Studio to VS Code, or want to deepen your knowledge, check out the VS Code training courses from George James Software: georgejames.com/vscode-training.
VS Code version 1.109

• Editor stability and navigation improvements - folding, syntax highlighting and navigation are now more

I am developing a C++ based program to access the IRIS database using iris-callin.h

I need to know what dll/dlls to use for the Iris object module?

Hey Community!

We're happy to share a new video from our InterSystems Developers YouTube:

     ⏯ Develop the Next Generation of Health IT with InterSystems@ Ready 2025

Hi,

I want to consume an API that provides HL7 messages. To achieve this, I have thought of the following workflow:

I have created a business service that periodically triggers a business process. The trigger request is forwarded to a business operation. There, a %Net.HttpRequest is assembled from scratch and then sent to the API endpoint. The corresponding HttpResponse then contains several HL7 messages encoded in UTF-8 in the message body. To further process the HL7 messages, the operation sends the HttpResponse back to the business process as EnsLib.HTTP.GenericMessage.

The raw data looks

The 2025.1.3 maintenance releases of InterSystems IRIS^® data platform, InterSystems IRIS^® for Health^TM, and HealthShare^® Health Connect are now Generally Available (GA). These releases include the fixes for a number of recently issued alerts and advisories, including the following: 

• Alert: Risk of Silent Wrong Results When Using Field Expressions Repeatedly in SQL Queries | InterSystems
• Advisory: Risk of Silent Wrong Results When Using New OFFSET Keyword in SQL Queries | InterSystems

Please share your feedback through the Ideas Portal using the category Post-Release Feedback so we can

I have always struggled with Iterating through a JSON response to pull out certain fields into a Data Class Structure to use to populate fields in a DTL. So I defined the whole structure for the following JSON, with the base structure extending Ens.Response, %XML.Adaptor, and %JSON.Adaptor.

{
    "status": {
        "message": "success",
        "code": 200
    },
    "data": {
        "client": "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx",
        "entities": [
            {
                "id": "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx`",
                "name": "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx",
                "totalCommentCount": 

Hey Community!

We're happy to share a new video from our InterSystems Developers YouTube:

     ⏯  Vector Search Performance @ Ready 2025

The third developer previews of InterSystems IRIS^® data platform, InterSystems IRIS^® for Health, and HealthShare^® Health Connect 2026.1 have been posted to the WRC developer preview site.  Containers can be found on our container registry and are tagged latest-preview.

These developer previews includes the dropping of Mac Intel support starting from 2026.1.0, and the adding back of Windows Server 2019 support to 2026.1.0.

Initial documentation can be found at these links below:

• InterSystems IRIS Data Platform 2026.1 | Documentation Home Page
• HealthShare Health Connect 2026.1 | Documentation

TL;DR This article explains how to deploy InterSystems IRIS Community Edition on Azure using the Azure Marketplace and a Virtual Machine. It covers prerequisites, instance selection, authentication, SSH access, first verification steps, and how to delete resources to avoid charges. The deployment can typically be done using Azure free credits and is suitable for developers who want to quickly start working with IRIS in the cloud.

Who this guide is for. This guide is intended for developers, solution architects, and DevOps engineers who want to deploy InterSystems IRIS Community Edition on Microsoft Azure. No prior Azure automation experience is required, but basic familiarity with the Azure Portal and SSH is helpful.

After following this guide, you will be able to:

• Launch InterSystems IRIS Community Edition from the Azure Marketplace
• Configure a small, secure Azure VM
• Connect to IRIS using SSH and the Management Portal
• Reset the default IRIS password and verify that IRIS is running

Prerequisites

• An active Azure subscription (new accounts may have free credits)
• Permissions to create resource groups, VMs, and networking resources
• An SSH client and a private key (.pem) you can store securely
• Basic knowledge of Linux command line

Deployment overview

• Open the IRIS Community Edition listing in Azure Marketplace and click Get it now
• In Azure Portal, choose Start with a pre-set configuration (or Create)
• Configure Basics: subscription, resource group, VM name, region, image, and size (a small VM is usually sufficient)
• Choose SSH key authentication and generate/download the key if needed
• Review + Create, accept terms, and deploy; then Go to resource → Connect → SSH
• First SSH login: run iris password to change _SYSTEM/SYS; start a session with iris session iris
• Management Portal: http://YOUR_VM_IP:52773/csp/sys/UtilHome.csp

Enabling HSSYS Mirroring Out of the Gate with IKO

For those of us building InterSystems workloads on Kubernetes, we are definitely spoiled with the InterSystems Kubernetes Operator (IKO) doing the heavy lifting and mirroring on day one.  Where us spoiled brats jump up and down is when we try to add additional databases/namespaces when we provision from HealthConnect containers on day two, while others get to utilize HealthShare Mirroring for this task, the prerequisite of mirroring HSSYS out of the gate has been somewhat elusive.  Here is example on how you can this powerful feature up and running with the employment of IKO and IrisClusters.

PEP 578 added Python Audit hooks. A rich variety of events (module load, os interactions and so on) triggers audit events which you can subscribe to.

Here's how to do that. First create an embedded python hook:

Class User.Python
{

/// do ##class(User.Python).Audit()ClassMethod Audit() [ Language = python ]
{
import sys
import time
def logger(event,args):
     if event=='import':
        module = args[0]
        print(f"Loading {module}")
        if module == "numpy":
            print(f"Module {module} forbidden. Terminating process in 3.")
            time.sleep(3)

Developer required to join a team working with and extending an existing CACHE application and subsequent migration to IRIS.

4yrs Minimum experience.

Applicants must have good general knowledge of development approaches and patterns.

SQL 

Opportunity from 6 Month contract to Permanent, depending on experience. Immediate start

Applications to chris.clipston@mtivity.com

10:47 AM — Jose Garcia's creatinine test results arrive at the hospital FHIR server. 2.1 mg/dL — a 35% increase from last month.

What happens next?

• Most systems: ❌ The result sits in a queue until a clinician reviews it manually — hours or days later.
• This system: 👍 An AI agent evaluates the trend, consults clinical guidelines, and generates evidence-based recommendations — in seconds, automatically.

No chatbot. No manual prompts. No black-box reasoning.

This is event-driven clinical decision support with full explainability:

✅ Triggered automatically by FHIR events ✅ Multi-agent reasoning (context, guidelines, recommendations) ✅ Complete audit trail in SQL (every decision, every evidence source) ✅ FHIR-native outputs (DiagnosticReport published to server)

Built with:

• InterSystems IRIS for Health — Orchestration, FHIR, persistence, vector search
• CrewAI — Multi-agent framework for structured reasoning

You'll learn: 🖋️ How to orchestrate agentic AI workflows within production-grade interoperability systems — and why explainability matters more than accuracy alone.

Hi Community!

InterSystems France & Benelux Ready 2026 is all about learning, sharing, and connecting. And we’re extending the experience to the Developer Community with a fun, light Bingo challenge.