Securing IRIS Integrations with Mutual TLS (mTLS): A Practical Guide

In today’s enterprise environments, secure communication between systems is not optional—it’s essential. Whether you're integrating InterSystems IRIS with cloud APIs, internal microservices, or third-party platforms, Mutual TLS (mTLS) offers a powerful way to ensure both ends of the connection are authenticated and encrypted.

This post walks through how to configure IRIS for mTLS and how to validate your certificates to avoid common pitfalls.

🔐 What is Mutual TLS (mTLS)?

TLS (Transport Layer Security) is the standard protocol

• Building and Managing HL7 Integrations – In PersonOctober 20-24, 2025 9:00am-5:00pm EDT
  
  • 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

Following on from JediSoft’s announcement of the general availability of JediSoft IRISsync®, I wanted to show how it can help prevent configuration drift and ensure your failover is always ready. 

When managing InterSystems IRIS production servers, even a minor configuration change can cause significant issues if it’s not replicated in your mirror environments. Often, these differences go unnoticed until your failover environment breaks.

This common, but critical, problem can lead to unexpected downtime at a vital moment and impact your business continuity.

IRISsync eliminates that risk by

Hello to all my fellow Cache Developers/Experts out there :)

The purpose of this post is to get input/feedback regarding an issue we are having with our Cache LIS web-based application not being able to remove locks that were taken under a separate process.

Here is the background of how the LIS does the locking and details about the issue:

-> our LIS web-based application sets records into a queue for doing locks and unlocks (the LIS runs under one process - guessing its the CSP server processes that process the broweser-to-backend requests) NOTE:  Our LIS is a web application, so in order for

Hi Community!

We are excited to announce the new French technical article writing contest!

✍️ Technical Article Contest ✍️

This is the perfect opportunity for all InterSystems technology enthusiasts to share their knowledge and showcase their writing skills. No matter your experience level, everyone is welcome to participate. Articles can cover a wide range of topics, from technical implementation to your impressions and feedback on using InterSystems products or services. So let your creativity and expertise run wild!

📅 Contest period: September 15 - November 30, 2025 (extended!)

🎁 Gifts for all: a special gift is prepared for each participant!

🏅 Prizes for the authors of the best articles

Your Mission

Let's pretend for a moment that you're an international action spy who's dedicated your life to keeping the people of the world safe from danger. You recieve the following mission:

Good day, Agent IRIS,

We're sorry for interrupting your vacation in the Bahamas, but we just received word from our London agent that a "time bomb" is set to detonate in a highly populated area in Los Angeles. Our sources say that the "time bomb" is set to trigger at 3:14 PM this afternoon.

Hurry, the people are counting on you!

The Problem

You rush to your feet and get ready to head to Los Angeles,

Hi

With this servers definition in VSCode:

Access to 2023.1.2 works just fine, 2024.1 stubbornly

Dear Community,

I've noticed that some of my friends and colleagues are using the Developer Community app on their Android devices. Could someone please help me with the exe file or guide me on how to get it?

Ready to elevate your Business Intelligence game?

We've got an engaging video, perfect for all skill levels.

Discover how to get started with IRIS BI, optimize cube performance, and drive analytics adoption. Plus, get a sneak peek at what's next!

Hi, Community!

Have you thought about becoming a subject matter expert (SME) for InterSystems Certification?

The benefits are many—but you can hear directly from five members of our SME community as they discuss:

How did participating in exam development boost your own expertise?

Hey Community,

Enjoy the new video on InterSystems Developers YouTube:

⏯ Unlocking a World of Possibility @ Ready 2025

These are the strategic plans of my example for the External Languages Contest 2025

BroadSea - Core OHDSI Walkthrough with InterSystems OMOP

Hey Community,

Enjoy the new video on InterSystems Developers YouTube:

⏯ The Evolution of AI: Embracing Agency @ Ready 2025

Hi Community,

We're super excited and thankful to our 52 InterSystems colleagues who participated in the 📺 Demo Games for InterSystems Sales Engineers 📺 and created 19 amazing videos.

Our colleagues worldwide put their creativity, technical know-how, and demo magic to the test. What started as an internal contest to showcase technical skill and demo excellence became a true stage for imagination with some entries looking less like demos and more like short films, complete with acting, storytelling, and even a cinematic touch.

Also, we'd like to thank all the members of the Community who took the time to watch them and vote for their favourites! 

And now it's time to announce the winners!

We're excited to announce a new version release of the SQLTools VS Code extension. 

SQLTools connects VS Code users to the most commonly used databases using drivers, including InterSystems IRIS. With over 3.5 million downloads, it is helping users work with their data much more easily.

Version 0.28.2 is now available and includes:
- New CSV export format options.
- Improved connection quickpick and status bar item.
- Query error strings now wrap.
- Document settings that require a restart after changing.
- Resolve contradictory SSL settings in MySQL driver.
- Fix connecting to AWS RDS by PostgreSQL

Hey Community,

We're excited to invite you to the next InterSystems UKI Tech Talk webinar: 

👉AI Vector Search Technology in InterSystems IRIS

⏱ Date & Time: Thursday, September 25, 2025 10:30-11:30 UK

Speakers:
👨‍🏫 @Saurav Gupta, Data Platform Team Leader, InterSystems
👨‍🏫 @Ruby Howard, Sales Engineer, InterSystems

Hi Team,

I've basic learning in Ensemble. I want to create a code as per following request. Please help in clearing following questions

We have a business process-AA. In this business process, we have onRequest method, here after performing some logic, I have to call a method ProcessAAlogic. 

In ProcessAAlogic method, after initial processing, we have to call a business operation BB asynchronously (which will give a flag "AACompleted" having value 1 or 0) in pResponse object.
Now based on this AACompleted flag, I have to call other methods which are part of onRequest method  i.e.,GoAheadtoCC and

Hey Community!

We're happy to share the next video in the "Code to Care" series on our InterSystems Developers YouTube:

⏯  Explaining Agentic AI Through Automated Bug Fixing

We are trying to make an ODBC connection via our intersystems ensemble (2016.2 running on ubuntu). However, when I am testing the connection I receive a pop-up that: "Http object response incomplete or invalid.0,#R". Note that the iodbctrace.log remains empty (and it is working because on the first try it registered a 459 error that I should activate kerberos, which I did). Any advise where I should look?
I have taken the following actions:

1. Expand the cacheodbc.ini in the mgr directory as follows:

[ODBC Data Sources]
Samples = Samples
Samplesunixodbc = Samplesunixodbc
User = User
Rsmdb =

As the title says, I've noticed that files that gets saved to the disk where the database lies (.DAT file) in the stream directory, does not get purged. Is this expected and do we need to create our own schedule task to clean this folder up?

I could only find old answers that say this, however I find it a bit odd if that is the case because they are considered temporary files. Perhaps I do not handle the streams correctly in the code?

set fileToDisk = ##class(%Stream.FileBinary).%New()
set fileToDisk.Filename = fileDestinationPath
set copyStatus = fileToDisk.CopyFromAndSave(response.Data)

Hi everyone,

I'm currently seeking a new position related to InterSystems technologies. My major skill is app integration and data flow development on the InterSystems IRIS platform (Interoperability). I develop high-load, mission-critical software. My coding background on Cache ObjectScript includes hundreds of data flows, thousands of Production business hosts, dozens of APIs, and other solutions on InterSystems IRIS. I worked to integrate such applications as SAP S/4HANA, Oracle Siebel, SAP Commerce Cloud, many custom apps, and all that can be integrated. I have also gained experience in various areas, including SQL, Java, Docker, IRIS administration, Apache Kafka, and Flutter (Dart).

Visual Studio Code releases new updates every month with new features and bug fixes, and the August 2025 release is now available.

Actually, I want to know specific production component status. I used "Ens.Config.Production" to get the status of component. But it will return only the component enabled/disabled. Anyone is having any Idea to get the specific production component status?

My problem was separating HL7 messages by message type.  I had to create multiple File Operations.  So I with custom code I am able to use 1 File Adapter for 1 interface and multiple message types.  I did experiment pulling the MSH 4 out of the raw content to further access dynamic information, but that may open a need for more robust error checking / lookup default actions.

Using the recommended naming convention of "To_FILE_<IntegrationName>"

I decided to use a generic file name and path in the default settings.

I created a custom class that extended the EnsLib.File.OutboundAdapter  With some

I've been trying to set up a script I can run after installing an instance to enable IPM across all namespaces. I have been able to install IPM successfully using

set r = ##class(%Net.HttpRequest).%New(),
    r.Server="pm.community.intersystems.com",
    r.SSLConfiguration="ISC.FeatureTracker.SSL.Config" 
d r.Get("/packages/zpm/latest/installer"),
    $system.OBJ.LoadStream(r.HttpResponse.Data,"c")

and then running the zpm commands

repo -r -n registry -url https://pm.community.intersystems.com/ -user "" -pass ""
enable -map -globally

This seems to enable me to run further zpm commands in the

Hey Community,

We're pleased to invite all the developers to the upcoming kick-off webinar for the InterSystems .Net, Java, Python, and JavaScript Contest!

During the webinar, you will discover the exciting challenges and opportunities that await developers in this contest. We will also discuss the topics we would like the participants to cover and show you how to develop, build, and deploy applications using the InterSystems IRIS data platform.

Date & Time: Wednesday, September 24 – 11:30 am EDT | 5:30 pm CEST  

I used to mannually test objectscript code in InterSystems Studio.  Does anyone know how to do this is VS Code?

Due to MySQL's interpretation of SCHEMA differing from the common SQL understanding (as seen in IRIS/SQL Server/Oracle), our automated Linked Table Wizard may encounter errors when attempting to retrieve metadata information to build the Linked Table.

(This also applies to Linked Procedures and Views)

When attempting to create a Linked Table through the Wizard, you will encounter an error that looks something like this:

ERROR #5535: SQL Gateway catalog table error in 'SQLPrimaryKeys'.

In the previous article, we saw how to build a customer service AI agent with smolagents and InterSystems IRIS, combining SQL, RAG with vector search, and interoperability.

In that case, we used cloud models (OpenAI) for the LLM and embeddings.

This time, we’ll take it one step further: running the same agent, but with local models thanks to Ollama.