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· Jul 22, 2025 5m read
Vector Search Performance

Test Objectives

InterSystems has been testing Vector Search since it was announced as an “experimental feature” in IRIS 2024.1. The first test cycle was aimed at identifying algorithmic inefficiencies and performance constraints during the Development/QD cycle. The next test cycle used simple vector searches for single threaded performance analysis to model reliable, scalable and performant behaviour at production database scale in IRIS, and performed a series of comparative tests of key IRIS vector search features against PostgreSQL/pgvector. The current test cycle models the expected behaviour of real-world customer deployments using complex queries that span multiple indices (vector and non-vector) and run in up to 1000 concurrent threads. These tests will be run against IRIS, PostgreSQL/pgvector, and ElasticSearch

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Question
· May 18, 2025
REST API Issue

I have a rest API Class used for getting data from Cache 2018 version.
I have single route '/callfuntions'
I send the following parameters to the API :- className, methodName, params
I use $CLASSMETHOD to execute and send the result back to the client.

If I make more that 10 to 12 requests in quick succession, then it stops sending data.

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i have a line in my *.scr file like this:

send: s rlt=##class(%SYS.Namespace).ListAll(.rlt)<CR>
wait for:USER>
send: S A="" F S A=$O(rlt(A)) q:A="" I A["USER"!(A["CLIE") F I=1:1:$L(L,",") S G="^["""_A_"""]"_$P(L,",",I) S B="" F S B=$O(@G@(B)) Q:B="" F J=1:1:$L(B) S V=$A($E(B,J,J)) I (V<48!(V>57))&&(V<65!(V>90))&&(V<97!(V>122)) W A,?10,G,?30,B,!<CR>
wait for:USER>

it errors out with this <SYNTAX> error where the "<" or ">" are not accepted.

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Hi everyone,


I'm currently testing out IRIS 2024.3 for a new project, and it's been running smooth for the most part. However, I noticed that when running some heavier analytical queries, the memory usage spikes more than I expected, even when result sets aren’t that large.

I’ve gone through the basics (buffer sizes, query plans, etc.), but I’m wondering if there are any new tweaks or recommended settings in 2024.3 specifically for managing memory better during these peak loads.

Anyone else run into something similar or have tips to fine-tune this?

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Hi all,

I'm working on a requirement to loop through all encounter streamlets(SDA) to identify specific encounters based on an encounter extension property for a patient fetch request. However, this current process is time-consuming, and we need to create indexes for that property to quickly retrieve the expected results without going through all the encounter streamlets of a patient.

I would appreciate help on how to achieve this, as I couldn't find any documentation explaining how to create indexes on a SDA element.

Thanks in advance.

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Hi Community,

I have a problem I am hoping someone can help with - I have created a front-end with HTML/CSS/JS in a CSP page in Iris Studio. I am trying to use objectscript on the back end to connect to a SQL Server Database (with valid credentials), and execute a stored procedure.

I have a fileList variable that is a stored as a comma separated string through a user input textBoxContainer. This is to be used as a parameter in the stored procedure called @Docs

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You probably know this situation:
Some time ago, you found a very special $ZU function for a very specific type of problem. Some kind of mystical formula. It became popular and was used by many developers throughout your code and across all your installations.

Several versions and updates later, you are informed by ISC that your mystical $ZU is deprecated and no longer supported. You are advised to replace it with a new $something().

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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). These releases include the fixes for a number of recently issued alerts and advisories, including the following:

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Question
· Jun 24, 2025
TCP connection problems

I'm trying to open a TCP connection to a remote system. The Caché command I'm using to open the connection is OPEN "|TCP|"_PORT:(IP::"PSE"):10 where PORT is a port number in the range 40000 to 40100 and IP is a standard IPv4 addess like 10.200.100.50
the connection appears to open because $TEST becomes 1.
I'm then writing to the open port with USE "|TCP|"_PORT:(::"S") WRITE "some text",*-3
It's a windows system

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Trying to start investigating an error we are seeing with multiple of the same messages getting sent to the same vendor. We receive an HL7 message with an RTF embedded from our EMR, send it through a DTL to just update the Patient Class, and then send it onto the Operation which is TCP.

We are starting to see this error message...

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I have created a New Database/Namespace within our TEST environment on both the Primary and Backup of the mirror. When I go to create the database/namespace on the DR node I am getting "Cannot open file '/ensemble/TEST/iris.cpf_...." while the cpf file that it references does not exist. Anyone have any clue to why this might be happening?

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