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⏯  From Words to Molecules: How AI Is Transforming Medicine and Beyond

InterSystems IRIS Adaptive Analytics version 2025.4.1 is now available from the InterSystems Software Distribution page.  This release includes AtScale 2025.4.1 and is compatible with the existing  Adaptive Analytics User-Defined Aggregate Function (UDAF) file - 2024.1.  New features included in AtSCale's 2025 releases include:

• Several MDX improvements to better handle null values and semi-additive measures like year-to-date.
• New parameters to enable setting the visibility of calculations and calculation groups in BI tools.

Let’s shine a light on the amazing authors and contributors of our October Article Bounty! 💙
Huge thanks to everyone who joined in and shared their knowledge.

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⏯  Building $ZF Modules in Rust with RZF @ Ready 2025
 

Mirror Your Database Across the Galaxy with Seeding

Hello cpf fans!  This distraction I used the "seed" capability in IRIS to provision an entire IrisCluster mirror, 4 maps wide with compute starting from an IRIS.DAT in a galaxy far far away.  This is pretty powerful if you have had a great deal of success with a solution running on a monolithic implementation and want it to scale to the outer rim with Kubernetes and the InterSystems Kubernetes Operator.  Even though my midichlorian count is admittely low, I have seen some hardcore CACHE hackers shovel around DATS, compact and shrink and update their ZROUTINES, so this same approach could also be helpful shrinking and securing your containerized workload too.  If you squint and feel all living things around you,  you can see a glimpse of in place (logical) mirroring in the future as a function of the operator and a migration path to a fully operational mirrored Death Star as the workload matures.

Introducing IRIS DocDB Explorer: A Sleek UI for Managing JSON Documents in InterSystems IRIS

IRIS offers a dedicated feature for storing and retrieving JSON documents using DocDB, without requiring a predefined schema.

Developers often need a quick and intuitive way  to browse, create, and edit documents without switching between multiple tools or writing repetitive code. To solve this, I created iris-docdb-ui — a CSP-based open-source application that provides a clean, responsive interface for interacting with DocDB effortlessly.

Over time, while I was working with Interoperability on the IRIS Data Platform, I developed rules for organizing a project code into packages and classes. That is what is called a Naming Convention, usually. In this topic, I want to organize and share these rules. I hope it can be helpful for somebody.

Disclaimer: This guide is a good fit for Interoperability projects. When you have integrations, data flows, when you use IRIS for ETL processes, etc. Overall, when your code is combined with Productions.

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⏯ Analytics and AI with InterSystems IRIS - From Zero to Hero @ Ready 2025

For example, I'm creating a customer at front end interface. I want to list down all the routines and child sub routines that are called at backend in mumps/cache. What's the best way to do it?

Yes, that's right, a Cache 2017.1 question.  Let's all take a trip in the Wayback Machine.

The company I'm working for is in the process of starting to use the %UnitTest framework, and we are experiencing some errors in the code with some existing logic.  Long story short, it looks like the best way to handle the issue would be to recognize we're executing the job as a part of a unit test.  Is there any sort of variable or property that can be checked to confirm the process is indeed executing a unit test?

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Only method/routine executed as "do Method..." is included into $ESTACK.
How can I modify a method or routine that returns a value so it can be included in $ESTACK?
Example upon executing via Studio Debug ($ESTACK is converted to string with ">" delimiter):
    Expected: stackstr = %Debugger.System.DebugStub > LogGenerate > Entry > DirChain > Attributes >  LogNew > LogSize >  LogFormat > LogWrite
        Processes DirChain, LogNew, LogSize, LogFormat are executed as "If Method..."
        Process Attributes is executed as "set a = Attributes..."
    Current: stackstr =  %Debugger.

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      ⏯  Source Control Interoperability Productions in a Decomposed Format @ Ready 2025

Hi everyone,

I'm dealing with a situation where LOAD DATA operations — especially large batches with data inconsistencies — are consuming a lot of disk space. I've noticed that the same error messages are being repeatedly logged in the %SQL_Diag.Result and %SQL_Diag.Message tables, which is significantly increasing the size of the database.

One idea was to move these diagnostic tables to a separate database with a configured size limit, but before going down that path, I'd like to ask:

Is there a simpler or more efficient way to handle this?
For example:

• Can we limit the number of repeated logs?

Hello,
I am currently facing the task of retrieving or sending HL7 messages from a web API. Since we only send HL7 messages via internal sockets, web APIs are relatively new to me.
The following is my plan for the new interface:
I have created a new custom business service that periodically sends requests to a business process. In this business process, the HTTP request (HTTP.GenericMessage) is then created from scratch. The special feature is the "Authorisation" header field, where a signature is inserted, which consists of a base64-encoded hash value.

Environment:
    Targeted *.inc file (with hundreds of defined macros) is in use throughout the application and included into every class declaration.
    Statement "set a = $$$TestIf(3)" is included into a classmethod with no other code in. Expected output 5
Same macro options in *.inc:
    #define TestIf(%arr)    if %arr>0 QUIT 5
    #define TestIf(%arr)    if (%arr>0) {QUIT 5}
Issue:
    failure to compile class with the same error on all tried definition options as:

Yes, yes! Welcome! You haven't made a mistake, you are in your beloved InterSystems Developer Community in Spanish.

You may be wondering what the title of this article is about, well it's very simple, today we are gathered here to honor the Inquisitor and praise the great work he performed. 

So, who or what is the Inquisitor?

Perfect, now that I have your attention, it's time to explain what the Inquisitor is. The Inquisitor is a solution developed with InterSystems technology to subject public contracts published daily on the platform  https://contrataciondelestado.es/ to scrutiny.

InterSystems ObjectScript extension for VS Code, version 3.0.1

Am also asking this question on the extension's GitHub page: Request textDocument/documentSymbol failed. Error: name must not be falsy · intersystems-community/vscode-objectscript · Discussion #1530 - but suspect more eyes will see it here, which might help gather additional information.

Tried to compile some legacy ObjectScript code via Import/Compile in VS Code using the vscode-objectscript extension. Getting an error, and the content of the file is left changed on the filesystem simply by being compiled.

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⏯ A Day in the Life of a Developer - Data Platforms Roundup @ Ready 2025

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I am looking to view the contents of the request object I am sending from my Service into my BPL in Message Viewer. My request contains references to other defined classes.

Class bd.webapp.OutboundMessageRequest Extends (%Persistent, Ens.Request)
{

Property Metadata As bd.webapp.OutboundMessageRequestMetadata;
Property MessageContent As %DynamicObject;
}



Class bd.webapp.OutboundMessageRequestMetadata Extends (%RegisteredObject, %JSON.

We require automatic injection of security predicates at runtime, depending on the user or API token. Is there a supported or hackable mechanism to manipulate SQL parsing/compilation before execution?

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.

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.

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.