InterSystems FAQ rubric

The ^%GCMP utility can be used to compare the contents of two globals.

For example, to compare ^test and ^test in the USER and SAMPLES namespaces, it would look like this:
*In the example below, 700 identical globals are created in the two namespaces, and the contents of one of them is changed to make it the detection target.

It appears as though command history is not available via up/down arrow keyboard keys when using the SQL Shell. Is there anything in the works to change that?

Also, typing the colon character (:) as the first character after the prompt in Terminal Lite does odd things in 2025.1.1 ... every keystroke starting with the colon is echoed back and pressing Enter generates an error:

I am having a hard time trying to figure out the following...

Within a DTC, I was able to take the a EnsLib.HL7.Message source and using

I'd like to ask you for recommendations on how to properly use repository dependencies when using VSCode and Client-side editing.
Suppose I have projects A, B and C, with A being independent, B depending on A, and C depending on A and B.
I am currently working with the main project C, and I want to be able to contribute to all the other projects in a single VSCode window (instead of opening three instances). How do you solve this problem? Git submodules? ZPM? Something else?

Hey Developers,

Enjoy the new video on InterSystems Developers YouTube

⏯ Integrating AI Agents into InterSystems IRIS - Patterns and Techniques @ READY 2025

https://www.youtube.com/embed/B-oDn75NJ2c
[This is an embedded link, but you cannot view embedded content directly on the site because you have declined the cookies necessary to access it. To view embedded content, you would need to accept all cookies in your Cookies Settings]

Hello everyone! 👋

I have a question regarding roles and resources.

To give you some context: I have a user who has been assigned only the role %HS_UsageDashboard_Access.This allows them to access the dashboards correctly (by giving the direct URL). Then, if I try to access the Management Portal with this same user, I can log in with no access to any resources within it (as expected).

Hello, good morning, thank you so much for reading this question. ☺️🙂👍

We are developing a code to get information about our Production's items: services, processes and operations.

We know we can get various configurations of a given item: Category, Port, Enabled...

But we wonder how we could get the date time of the last mesage (most recent) received in an item.

To give a code snippet a small section of the code we have developed (and tested), it looks like:

We are attempting to setup an EnsLib.SOAP.OutboundAdapter to send an HL7 message to a vendor hosted AWS site. We have the Certificate from the vendor and defined the TLS setting. However, when we are sending the message we are receiving...

Unable to open TCP/IP socket to server hcis-staging.cbord.com:443

Hello I try to implementing this service, and try to convert HL7v2, FHIR on both sides.
https://github.com/grongierisc/iris-healthtoolkit-service/

I download this service and tried run docker-compose but after that I get some error.

during an upgrade, a customer wants to load custom schemas in a particular order.
For this, they renamed a file EPIC_MDM.HL7 to 1EPIC_MDM.HL7
Upon importing this file into their server using VSCode, the custom schema was renamed to 1EPIC_MDM.HL7 inside the <Category>

This is impacting the upgrade and they are looking for a way to import a custom schema without renaming the schema itself.

Hi noble developers!

Have a question/discussion. Sometimes, while developing, we'd need to connect VSCode directly to a remote server (e.g., stage one) for debugging purposes. And after change back to local one. And then to remote again.

How do you perform this switching in VSCode in a convenient way?

I have several settings.json files (settings_local, settings_remote) which I put to a main settings.json when I need to make VSCode to connect to switch the connection:

Hi Community,

We're super excited to share the first video in the "Rarified Air" series on our InterSystems Developers YouTube:

⏯ Securing the Digital Front Door

https://www.youtube.com/embed/wVm3qVpIl0w
[This is an embedded link, but you cannot view embedded content directly on the site because you have declined the cookies necessary to access it. To view embedded content, you would need to accept all cookies in your Cookies Settings]

Are you a developer, data engineer, integration engineer, or data scientist who works hands-on with InterSystems products?

We are conducting 30-45 minute interviews to understand your experience — how you started with InterSystems products, where you find helpful code samples, and how we can improve our products to better support your journey.

✅ If you’re interested, fill out a quick survey to share your contact info and experience.

If you're selected, we will schedule a session at your convenience between April 2 and May 8 for an interview based on the information you provide.

🎁 As a thank-you, interview participants will receive 10,000 Global Masters points!

Your feedback will directly help us improve your experience using InterSystems products and services.

Kindly note that the spots are limited.

I'm working on some code that would benefit from being able to see whether or not a project file has been saved in Studio.

I can see when I make changes, that the project name has an asterisk added to it: