Managing InterSystems Servers – In-Person  April 14-18, 2025

• Configure, manage, plan, and monitor system operations of InterSystems Data Platform technology
• This five-day course teaches system and database administrators how to install, configure and secure InterSystems server software, configure for high availability and disaster recovery, and monitor the system. Students also learn troubleshooting techniques.
• This course is applicable to both InterSystems IRIS and Caché. Although the course is mostly platform independent, students can complete the exercises using either Windows or Ubuntu.

Hi!
I have installed IRIS 2024.1 in RHEL 9.5, using the following 

sudo ISC_PACKAGE_INSTANCENAME="IRISTEST01" ISC_PACKAGE_INSTALLDIR="/iris" \
ISC_PACKAGE_UNICODE="N"  ISC_PACKAGE_INITIAL_SECURITY="Normal" \
ISC_PACKAGE_INSTALL_INTEGRATEDML="N" ISC_PACKAGE_MGRUSER="irisowner" \
ISC_PACKAGE_MGRGROUP="irismgr" ISC_PACKAGE_USER_PASSWORD="**************"  \
ISC_PACKAGE_IRISUSER="irisusr" ISC_PACKAGE_IRISGROUP="irisgrp" \
ISC_PACKAGE_CSPSYSTEM_PASSWORD="**************" ISC_PACKAGE_WEB_CONFIGURE="Y" \
ISC_PACKAGE_WEB_SERVERTYPE="Apache" ISC_PACKAGE_WEB_APACHE_VERSION="2.

Hello interface engineers and app developers,     

Did you know that you can use Python in productions or integrations?

The production configuration user interface is low-code, but in many projects, you may reach a point where you need to write some code. As discussed in the Integration Architecture course, business processes are full of places for inserting code, specifically the BPL editor (for BPL business processes) and the DTL editor (for data transformations).

😯 As of InterSystems IRIS 2025.1, both Python and InterSystems ObjectScript are supported in the BPL and DTL editors.

Is there a generic process for "walking" the structure of a virtual document - eg an HL7 message (EnsLib.HL7.Message) or an XML document (EnsLib.EDI.XML.Document).

At least we'd want to be able to visit all "nodes" (HL7 fields or sub-fields, XML nodes) in the virtual document and be able to work out/generate the Property Path (so we could call "GetValueAt"). 

We can just about come up with something generic for HL7, since it only nests down to 4 levels within each segment, though we're using numeric Property Path's at that point rather than symbolic ones (MSH:1.3 etc).

Hi!
I have question about MDX functionality in context of IRIS Analytics.

How does IRIS MDX distinct selection works? Is there any restruqtion when analyzing strings? Like special symbols or length?
Here is an example
I have this data:
 6 rows and 2 of them unique
Then we create data cube based on this model and examine it with Analyzer
 
Detailed listing  
6 rows an ONE unique string. Which is obviously not true. 
This happed only with string with symbols in it
My task is to get the right amount of unique strings

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Hi all.

I'm trying to create an indexed table with an vector field so I can search by the vector value.
I've been investigating and found that to get the vector value based on the text (token), use a Python method like the following:

ClassMethod TokenizeData(desc As %String) As %String [ Language = python ]
{
    import iris
    # Step 2: Generate Document Embeddings
    from sentence_transformers import SentenceTransformer

    model = SentenceTransformer('/opt/irisbuild/all-MiniLM-L6-v2')

    # Generate embeddings for each document
    document_embeddings = model.

I have a HL7 DTL in which I'm doing a lookup to a table based on a code value in the IN1:3 field.  That incoming code may have a 1 to 1 mapping, or 1 to many mapping in a table.  If it's a 1 to many, the values in the lookup table are comma delimited.  If it's 1 to 1, that IN1 segment will map straight across.  If it's one to many, I need to create additional IN1 segments.  For example, if the incoming code maps to three, I need to map the original IN1 segment with one of the mapped codes, then create two additional IN1 segments with the other 2 codes for a total of 3 IN1 segments.

I have text coming in CCDA file as below:

    virus vaccine

    ¹

I want to get the entire value available inside the content tag. Can anybody please help me out how to get this?

Hi, 

i'm with a trouble to take the api/monitor/alerts using prometheus.

i'm using prometheus 3.2.1 with IRIS 2022.1, the api metrics is working fine, but with the alerts, i'm receiving the following error:
 

and this is the answer in the request:

it apears the iris is not using the right way to answer the OpenMetrics the way Prometheus want.

Someone already see this?

Hi Guys,

I'm looking to create a service to download files from S3, so I used the EnsLib.AmazonS3.BusinessService with settings as below to download files that starts with SMfile_48 but I'm not getting any files, am I missing something?

Thanks

Hello again IRIS community,

We have officially released our InterSystems IRIS Developer Professional certification exam for beta testing. The beta test will be available until April 20, 2025. As a beta tester, you have the chance to earn the certification for free!

Interested in beta testing? See the InterSystems IRIS Developer Professional Beta Test Developer Community post for exam details, recommended preparation, and instructions on how to schedule and take the beta exam. 

Thank you!

Hi All,

  After doing IRIS/Ensemble etc for 20 years I've come across a company who have very odd view, especially about DTL's and routers.

  They have convinced themselves to use COS for transforms (including HL7) and for routers (and one of their 3rd party providers agree!)

  Their reasons are; efficiency, compatibility, flexibility, power and re-usability.

  Of course these reasons are wrong!

• Efficiency, difference between 1-2 lines compared to a DTL/XML going to 3-4 lines (This also assumes the COS code is well written)
• Compatibility, surely less with COS as its subject to developer style?

Hi Community,

Enjoy the new video on InterSystems Developers YouTube:

⏯  FHIR Lessons Learned From the Field @ Global Summit 2024

I was using VSCode to edit a DTL because it seemed easier to copy/paste code from parts of the DTL I was editing. I tried to add <sql> tag and code to call a SELECT statement, but when I compiled I got the following error...

ERROR <Ens>ErrInvalidDTL: Invalid DTL

  > ERROR #5490: Error running generator for method 'GetSourceDocType:osuwmc.Epic.MFN.DTL.EpicMFN949002Normalization'

ERROR: Ens.DataTransformDTL.cls(GetSourceDocType) of generated code compiling subclass 'osuwmc.Epic.MFN.DTL.EpicMFN949002Normalization'

    > ERROR #5030: An error occurred while compiling class 'osuwmc.Epic.MFN.

🚨 Planned Maintenance Notice 🚨

The InterSystems Developer Community will undergo scheduled maintenance tomorrow (March 22, 2025) from 10:30 AM to 12:30 PM EST (16:30 to 18:30 CET).

During this time, the platform may experience intermittent downtime. We apologize for any inconvenience and appreciate your patience as we work to improve our services.

Thank you for your understanding!

Hi,

is there a way to starting & stopping Java Server programmatically ?

Thanks

Hey Community,

Recently, @Dean Andrews, Head of Developer Relations, sat down with Instruqt to share how InterSystems is transforming developer engagement:

>> Unlocking Hands-On Learning with Instruqt <<

“Instruqt is useful for interactive tutorials where we are sharing specific use cases of our technology with our customers, partners and developers around the world... It's such a powerful way to show our customers and partners how easy InterSystems technology is to use.” - Dean Andrews

Hi Guys,

For some reason %JavaServer is timing out so after a while I have to stop then start it again to get be able connect to the gateway?

Thanks

Once upon a time in Ensemble Management Portal the pool size of each component (Business Host) within the production was displayed in the Production Configuration page.

This information was very useful, especially when a production have tens or hundreds of components.

Now days the pool size is no longer displayed in the Production Configuration page and to get the pool size you need to click in each and every host in your production.
What if you have hundreds of business hosts and you need to check the pool size of each? It's a nightmare!

Hi, Community!

Looking for a safe space to create interface components outside your live environment? See how interface branches can help:

Using Interface Branches in Health Connect Cloud

How do you collect stack info when debugging non-interactive jobs?

I cobbled this together today from the docs, but maybe there's something pre-built? LOG^%ETN()?

set stack = ""
for loop=0:1:$STACK(-1) { 
      set stack = stack _ "Context level:" _ loop _ " Context type: " _ $STACK(loop) _ $c(10,13) _
                          "  Current place: " _ $STACK(loop,"PLACE") _ $c(10,13) _
                          "  Current source: " _$STACK(loop,"MCODE") _ $c(10,13)
}

Log meth

I am starting a conversion project for a health system that is currently migrating to Health Connect. They have their DEV and TST environments in one production and their PRD in another.  What is the best practice for standing up conversion environments...separate name spaces in the two productions or separate productions? Keep in mind the interfaces are temporary?

Mike

Hello there 🙋‍♂️,

I'm looking towards a functionality alike Python's difflib, but made with Intersystems products. I already know could embed Python code within IRIS but thought maybe there was a development already done for handling deltas, with a different approach or extra utils.

Even if I find such a library after comparing both might still go with difflib or any other more suitable. Intend to use it for a cross-environment checklist/check tool.

Please find below a sample of HTML rendering computed and made with difflib, with a few lines of code:

thanks ! best regards,  

Hey Community!

We're happy to share the next video in the series dedicated to Gen AI on our InterSystems Developers YouTube:

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Hi everyone,

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With 12+ years of experience in software development, I specialize in:

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Hi Guys,

I get the attached error when trying to populate JSON string into a textarea, I'm running IRIS 2024 in a container in Ubuntu, any clues what could be the problem? 

Thanks

I have two instances of IRIS, one is Production and another one is Staging (both managed by Docker) and I want to set up a full daily recover of the Staging server from a full backup of the Production server. I know how to do this manually using the DBREST utility, as well as how to make a copy of the database by making a full copy of the durable directory (however this option requires a full stop of the Production-database). What is the best way to automatically restore all databases from a full backup using scripting?

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Hello Community!

We are delighted to invite all our customers, partners and community members to participate in the InterSystems UK & Ireland Data Summit 2025! The registration for the Summit 2025 is already open.

This year’s InterSystems UK&I Data Summit event will focus is on empowering our partners to harness the transformative power of innovative technology to drive business growth and success. At this event, we'll explore how you can build and deploy innovative new solutions to stay competitive and achieve sustained growth.

➡️ InterSystems UK & Ireland Data Summit

🗓 Dates: March 26 - 27, 2025

📍 Place:  Hyatt Regency, Birmingham, UK