InterSystems Announces General Availability of InterSystems IRIS, InterSystems IRIS for Health, and HealthShare Health Connect 2025.1

The 2025.1 release of InterSystems IRIS® data platform, InterSystems IRIS^® for Health^TM, and HealthShare^® Health Connect is now Generally Available (GA). This is an Extended Maintenance (EM) release.

Release Highlights

In this exciting release, users can expect several new features and enhancements, including:

1. Advanced Vector Search Capabilities
   
   • A new disk-based Approximate Nearest Neighbor (ANN) index significantly accelerates vector search queries, yielding

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="2.4" \

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.

Greetings,

Is it possible to change the date format from YYYYMMDDHHMMSS to YYYYMMDD in a DTL? How?

I tried ConvertDateTime() without success. 

I'm using Iris for Health

Thank you!

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).

Reading the documentation

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.encode(desc)

    r

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.

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I have text coming in CCDA file as below:

<td>

<content ID="1234">

    virus vaccine

    ¹

</content>

</td>

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:

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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

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Hello All,

Is ther any way to convert RTF content into Text document/HTML docucment in Cache object scripts or by using %iKnow.Source.Converter.

Please advise.

Thanks,

Archunan K

Hi,

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

Thanks

InterSystems FAQ rubric

This can be done with TRY-CATCH:

#dim ex As%Exception.AbstractExceptionTRY {
    //Code that causes an error
  }
  CATCH ex {
     do ex.Log()
  }

If you use ^%ETN, call it from the BACK entry (BACK^%ETN).

Please also take a look at the related article: How to get application errors (^ERRORS) using a command

Hey Community,

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Introduction

This is a quickstart guide to IRIS for Linux systems administrators who need to be able to support the IRIS DB as well as other normal infrastructure tasks.

IRIS is a DB system from Intersystems. An IRIS DB can hold code (in the form of a Class) or data (in the form of Globals). IRIS DB are Linux files called IRIS.DAT.

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!

In systems I have control of I've modified the production

Perhaps this is an issue that has long been discussed somewhere.I have searched for it but still could not find the solution anywhere.In our environment, we send a container of SDA objects to UCR from HealthConnect.To populate the container we do a SQL query on a source system and then populate the appropriate SDA objects.Sometimes it happens that I want to do an update of a field and I want to empty the corresponding SDA field.In other words, send an empty string.The Alert.toTime field of the object in question is filled with the date '2022-11-29Z13:00:00'.

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

Help!

I want to get rid of this account but there seems to be no way to do this by myself. Whom can I write to, to have my account deleted? Thank you in advance...

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