Hey Community!

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

     ⏯  Optimizing Query Performance in Health Insight @ Ready 2025

I am working on a new project oliverwilms/iris-budget
based on intersystems-community/iris-fullstack-template: This template shows you how to build, test and deploy a simple full-stack application using InterSystems IRIS REST API

I do not understand why I get this error:

[INFO] ...started InterSystems IRIS instance IRIS
[INFO] Executing command /docker-entrypoint.sh iris-after-start ...
[INFO] Create namespace: USER
[ERROR] module 'iris' has no attribute 'system'
[ERROR] Command

Recent versions of IRIS come with Lite Terminal available from VSCode. It's a websocket server, with JSON messaging. Here's how to connect to it from Python:

import websocket
import argparse
import requests
import json


def terminal(host, port, namespace, username, password, command, secure):
    session = requests.Session()
    r = session.get(f"http{"s" if secure else ""}://{host}:{port}/api/atelier/", auth=(username, password))
    cookies = session.cookies.get_dict()
    ws = websocket.WebSocket()
    ws.

Hi Community! 👋
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.

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

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.

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).

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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! 👋

You’ve asked for easier ways to connect with other Global Masters and we heard you!
Random Coffee Chat is an easy way for Global Masters to connect and have an informal 1:1 conversation. ☕

🗓 When: January 26 – February 15

This thread is for participants in Europe & UK time zones who’d like to connect and schedule a short coffee chat directly with each other.

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).

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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Hi Community! 👋

You’ve asked for easier ways to connect with other Global Masters and we heard you!
Random Coffee Chat is an easy way for Global Masters to connect and have an informal 1:1 conversation. ☕

🗓 When: January 26 – February 15

This thread is for participants based in Asia, Australia and New Zealand who’d like to connect and schedule a short coffee chat directly with each other.

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.

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.

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 2025.1.3 maintenance releases of InterSystems IRIS^® data platform, InterSystems IRIS^® for Health^TM, and HealthShare^® Health Connect are now Generally Available (GA).

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.

Hey Community!

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

     ⏯  Vector Search Performance @ Ready 2025

Hi Community,

We’re excited to invite you to take part in shaping the next generation of ObjectScript development tools. We’re working on an AI-powered ObjectScript coding assistant designed specifically for IRIS developers. Not a generic AI adapted for ObjectScript, but a solution built from the ground up to understand ObjectScript idioms, IRIS APIs, interoperability productions, and real-world developer workflows.

To make sure we build something truly useful, we need your input.

👉 ObjectScript Coder Agent Developer Survey 👈

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.

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

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You’ve asked for easier ways to connect with other Global Masters and we heard you!
Random Coffee Chat is an easy way for Global Masters to connect and have an informal 1:1 conversation. ☕

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This thread is for participants based in North, Central, and South America who’d like to connect and schedule a short coffee chat directly with each other.