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Overview I'm excited to announce the release of testcontainers-iris-node, a Node.js library that makes it easy to spin up temporary InterSystems IRIS containers for integration and E2E testing. This project is a natural addition to the existing family of Testcontainers adapters for IRIS, including testcontainers-iris-python and testcontainers-iris-java.

Why testcontainers-iris-node? As a Node.js developer working with InterSystems IRIS, I often faced challenges when setting up test environments that mimic production. testcontainers-iris-node solves this by leveraging the testcontainers-node framework to create isolated IRIS environments on-demand.

This is particularly valuable for:

  • Integration testing with IRIS databases
  • Testing data pipelines or microservices
  • Automating test environments in CI pipelines

Features

  • Launches IRIS in Docker containers using Testcontainers
  • Supports custom Docker images and configuration
  • Wait strategies to ensure IRIS is ready before tests begin
  • Clean teardown between test runs

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Hello InterSystems Community,

I'm working with HealthShare, and need to create a user account for our development environment with specific access requirements. This user will need only to:

Review messaging and environments
See production and namespaces
NOT modify anything (read-only access)

After reviewing the documentation on user roles and rights management, I can see the default roles available in our system include:

Ensemble/Interoperability Roles:

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Thank you community for translating an earlier article into Portuguese.
Am returning the favor with a new release of Pattern Match Workbench demo app.

Added support for Portuguese.

The labels, buttons, feedback messages and help-text for user interface are updated.

Pattern Descriptions can be requested for the new language.

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I am testing vectorsearch, while doing so I am trying to paginate my resultset for a "next page" function to give me the first, second, third 15 entries within a table.

For this I have two embedding classes. One with a HNSW Index (vectornomicembedtextlatest) , and one without (vectornomicembedtexttest).

Calling SELECT ID,PRIMKEY FROM SQLUser.vectornomicembedtexttest LIMIT 5 OFFSET 1 works fine with the first entry having the rowID of 486448. (I deleted old entries in the beginning and reused the table)

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Hi, Community!

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Hello and welcome to the January 2025 Developer Community YouTube Recap.
InterSystems Global Summit
By Jon Sue-Ho, Senior Security Engineer, InterSystems
By Murray Oldfield, Mark Bolinsky
InterSystems Package Manager
By Timothy Leavitt, Bob Kuszewski
Containers & Kubernetes - Proper Use and Lessons Learned
By Mark Bolinsky, Ari Glikman, Bob Kuszewski, Kai Zou
Moving to InterSystems Reports
By Eric Hoelper, Michael Braam
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Visual Studio Code releases new updates every month with new features and bug fixes, and the August 2025 release is now available.

This release features smarter AI model selection, enhanced security for sensitive edits and terminal commands, and productivity enhancements such as streamlined chat editing and customizable context with AGENTS.md.

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Hello Community!

The big challenge you've all been waiting for is finally here: The fourth InterSystems technical article writing contest in Spanish is here!

🏆 4th Spanish Technical Article Contest 🏆

Contest description: Write an article in Spanish in the Developer Community on any topic related to InterSystems technology.

Duration: May 12 – June 8, 2025.

Prizes for all participants: Everyone who publishes an article in Spanish during the contest period will receive a prize.

Main prize: Apple Watch SE / 10th generation iPad

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Hey Community!

We are pleased to invite everyone to participate in the new webinar in German dedicated to AI:

➡️ Interoperability as a catalyst for AI

Date & Time: March 11, 2025, 3:30 pm CET

👨‍🏫 Speakers:

  • @Thomas Nitzsche, Sales Manager, InterSystems
  • Dr. Olaf Iseringhausen, Head of Competence Center Health Care Solutions, Bechtle
  • Dr. @Erion Dasho, Clinical Advisor, InterSystems

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Power your IrisCluster serviceTemplate with kube-vip

If you're running IRIS in a mirrored IrisCluster for HA in Kubernetes, the question of providing a Mirror VIP (Virtual IP) becomes relevant. Virtual IP offers a way for downstream systems to interact with IRIS using one IP address. Even when a failover happens, downstream systems can reconnect to the same IP address and continue working.

The lead in above was stolen (gaffled, jacked, pilfered) from techniques shared to the community for vips across public clouds with IRIS by @Eduard Lebedyuk ...

Articles: ☁ vip-aws | vip-gcp | vip-azure

This version strives to solve the same challenges for IRIS on Kubernetes when being deployed via MAAS, on prem, and possibly yet to be realized using cloud mechanics with Manged Kubernetes Services.

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Question
· Oct 24
FHIR in IRIS 4 health

Hi,

We have some concerns on how to implement FHIR, do we do facade?, how do we get resources?, what is a resource?, is a resource "Patient" or an instance of a patient?, How can we have a FHIR repository AND send the patient details to healthshare MPI?

Has anyone correctly created a FHIR server that has custom methods?, handles "normal" methods and forwards onto Healthshare MPI , processing the response and creates a accurate FHIR response back to the calling system.

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Hello to all the Cache Experts out there and Happy Friday!

The company I work for uses Cache 2017.1.3 and we have been seeing intermittent errors in the Cache Error Trap when an SQL query runs. The error message looks like the error is occurring within the cached query routine that Cache auto-generates. Unfortunately, when I pulled up the routine in the SMP System Explorer, I only found an obj version, so was unable to look at any code.

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Question
· Jun 17
Concatenation Issue

I am trying to add a value to my concatenation string and the value is not being inserted in the right place. I am adding onto this code from another developer and cannot seem to get it to work. The only code I have added is underlined in bold red.

This is how the translated HL7 message looks:

OBX|1|CE|CDX^History||Specimen 1 Clinical History: CLINICAL HISTORY\.br\\.br\Specimen 2 Clinical History: CLINICAL HISTORY 2\.br\Specimen 1 Suspected Clinical Diagnosis\.br\Specimen 3 Clinical History: HISTORY 3\.br\Specimen 2 Suspected Clinical Diagnosis

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Hi,

I'm using the iris for health community edition and I cannot seem to get the FHIR server configuration UI to show up. I was able to create a FHIR server programaticlly but none of the user interface features that the installation guide talks about are available. Once I was created the server I was able to see a Bulk FHIR Coordinator in the management portal, ut that's it. Are the UI features not available in the community edition or do they need to be enabled somehow?

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