Hi Community!

Welcome to Issue #26 of the InterSystems Ideas newsletter! Let's look at the latest news from the Ideas Portal, such as:

✓ General Statistics
✓ Recently implemented ideas by InterSystems
✓ Recently implemented ideas by Developer Community members

Have you ever needed to change an IP or port before deploying an interface to production? Needed to remove items from an export? What about modifying the value(s) in a lookup table before deploying? Have you wanted to disable an interface before deploying? What about adding a comment, category, or alert setting to an interface before deploying to production?

If you’ve ever needed to make any changes to an interface or lookup table before deploying to production, then Export Editor is for you!

Hi Developers,

We are happy to announce the first InterSystems online programming contest of the year:

🏆 InterSystems Full Stack Contest🏆

Duration: February 2 - March 1, 2026

Prize pool: $12,000

Hi Community,

Enjoy the new video on InterSystems Developers YouTube:

 ⏯  InterSystems IRIS & IRIS Health as a Managed Service @ Ready 2025 

One objective of vectorization is to render unstructured text more machine-usable. Vector embeddings accomplish this by encoding the semantics of text as high-dimensional numeric vectors, which can be employed by advanced search algorithms (normally an approximate nearest neighbor algorithm like Hierarchical Navigable Small World). This not only improves our ability to interact with unstructured text programmatically but makes it searchable by context and by meaning beyond what is captured literally by keyword.

This is an excellent candidate for a developer community post (like Dev.to, Medium, or the InterSystems Community). It bridges the gap between high-level architecture and hands-on implementation.

Here is the summarized article format.

Building a Robust Asynchronous Queue Manager with InterSystems IRIS and Angular

As applications scale, handling heavy computational tasks synchronously becomes a bottleneck. Whether it's processing large data sets, sending high-volume emails, or managing API integrations, a decoupled architecture is essential.

Project Overview:

The Clinical Staff Master Data Management (CSMDM) system is a full-stack healthcare integration application built on InterSystems IRIS for Health. It centralizes and standardizes clinical staff metadata into a single authoritative repository, exposed through RESTful CRUD APIs and reusable backend methods.

The platform eliminates fragmented lookup tables and hardcoded mappings that commonly cause errors in HL7 and FHIR integration workflows, ensuring data consistency and interface reliability.

Hi everyone, 

This is the first time I'm dealing with a request of modifying a variable value in a UDF OnSQLTrigger on InterSystems TrakCare.

I can't find any documentation to address this issue, but basically, my goal is to modify the value of one of the fields in a table when it is first inserted. 

This is basically what the code should do, namely, to change the content of the %d variable at a specific key.

Hi developers!

I'm testing vibecoding with ObjectScript and my silicon friend created a code-block that got me thinking "what's wrong"?

Here is the piece of code:

for i=0:1:(json.%Size()-1) {

set p = json.%Get(i)

if (p="value1")!(p="value2") {

quit 1
}

AI wanted to quit from a method with a return value. Good intention, but bad use of the command.

And ObjectScript compiler compiles this code with no error(?) (syntax linter in VSCode says it's a syntax, kudos @Brett Saviano ).

But in action, it produces <COMMAND>, of course.

Hi Developers!

Currently I have 2000+ lines in a class, and I think it's a lot already? What are the best practices? 

if 10K lines OK? How do you cope with it? Please share?

Greetings,

As a long time Cache developer is there a way to get a copy of the Cache Studio that supports IRIS 2024.3? I do not have a WRC account? I need Studio just to experiment, not to build commercial software.

Thank you,

Everardo

Hi, Community!

👩‍⚕️If you need to access clinical data at scale, the InterSystems Bulk FHIR Coordinator can help!

Using the InterSystems Bulk FHIR Coordinator to Extract Clinical Data

We use local containers  a lot for evaluation and development with Health Connect and other IRIS based applications.

When evaluating Podman Desktop on Windows as replacement for Docker Desktop, we are experiencing an issue with the durable %SYS:

The only way it works is when we use a named volume which then is located inside the WSL-Podman-Machine under /var/lib/containers/storage/volumes/.

When I build docker containers my build log usually looks like this:

#9 24.94 Using 'iris.cpf' configuration file
#9 25.82
#9 27.55 Starting Control Process
#9 27.55 Global buffer setting requires attention.  Auto-selected 25% of total memory.
#9 27.55 Allocated 4999MB shared memory
#9 27.55 3915MB global buffers, 391MB routine buffers
#9 29.84 This copy of InterSystems IRIS has been licensed for use exclusively by:
#9 29.84 No local key detected, trying license server.
#9 29.84 Copyright (c) 1986-2026 by InterSystems Corporation
#9 29.

Hello Team,

I am currently working with the CD Ruby machine, which is connected through DIGI. When I click on the “Test Link” option on the instrument, I can see the following behavior in Wireshark logs:

Ensemble sends an ACK (06) after receiving ENQ (05), followed by EOT (04) (somewhat like above photo). However, when another ENQ is received, Ensemble does not send an ACK in response. As a result, the instrument displays a failure message.

Also attaching the Ensemble settings:

I am using a TCP service with an inbound adapter configured for the ASTM protocol.

In the previous article, we examined how we can use the %CSP.Request and %CSP.Response classes to test a REST API without having the API fully set up and accessible across a network with an authentication mechanism. In this article, we will build on that foundation to perform some simple unit testing of one of our REST API methods.

The unit testing framework requires a couple of setup steps before we can use it. First, we have to ensure that the unit testing portion of the management portal is enabled so we can review the results of our tests.

We are attempting to "Repoint" old class data to new class data to save disk space and data redundancy across multiple tables. This works to a point.  In essence the two classes are sharing the same data / Index / stream globals.  But if an ID in the Old_Class is opened, a property is modified, and saved the property that is in the New_Class (but not in the Old_Class) is NULLed / blanked.

Simplified explanation of data and what’s occurring.

Intersystems IRIS Productions provide a powerful framework for connecting disparate systems across various protocols and message formats in a reliable, observable, and scalable manner. intersystems_pyprod, short for InterSystems Python Productions, is a Python library that enables developers to build these interoperability components entirely in Python. Designed for flexibility, it supports a hybrid approach: you can seamlessly mix new Python-based components with existing ObjectScript-based ones, leveraging your established IRIS infrastructure.

Welcome to the finale of our journey in building MAIS.

• In Part 1, we constructed the agnostic "Brain" using LiteLLM and IRIS.
• In Part 2, we designed the "Persona", mastering Dynamic Prompt Engineering and the ReAct theory.

Now, the stage is set. Our agents are ready, defined, and eager to work. However, they remain frozen in time. They require a mechanism to drive the conversation, execute their requested tools, and pass the baton to one another.

Today, we will assemble the Nervous System

Hi Community,

We're happy to announce that registration for the event of the year — InterSystems Ready 2026 — is now open. This is the premier global summit for the InterSystems technology community – a gathering of industry leaders and developers at the forefront of their respective industries. This event attracts a wide range of attendees, from C-level executives, top subject matter experts and visionary leaders, managers, directors and developers. Attendees gather to network with peers, connect with InterSystems partners, learn best practices and get a firsthand look at upcoming features and future innovations from InterSystems.

➡️ InterSystems Ready 2026

🗓 Dates: April 27 - 30, 2026

📍 Location: Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center, National Harbor, Maryland, USA

Hi,

I'm having a problem with %JSON.Adaptor and "list of" binding.

For exemple, this class with a property "oazisCode As list of %String".

Class User.ADGroup Extends (%Persistent, %JSON.Adaptor)

{
/// Code interne
Property code As %String;

/// Libellé
Property text As %String(MAXLEN = "");

Property oazisCode As list Of %String;

}

The first time call to %JSONImport works properly

s r = ##class(User.ADGroup).%New()
s json = {"code": "123", "text":"456", "oazisCode": ["1","2"]}
d r.%JSONImport(json)
w r.oazisCode.

Why do these clauses affect SQL performance?

select ID from some_table where row_status in ('I','U') order by ID limit 5 - makes the query infinite select top 10 ID from some_table where row_status in ('I','U') order by ID - the same select ID from some_table where row_status in ('I','U') order by ID - is fast

Actually there are no rows in the table having row_status 'I' or 'U'.

I want to implement isc-rest in my new project iris-budget/module.xml at master · oliverwilms/iris-budget

I get this error:

#8 11.30 Building dependency graph...
#8 12.69 ERROR! Could not find satisfactory version of isc.rest in any repositories. Required by: iris-budget 0.0.1: ^2.0.0
#8 ERROR: process "/bin/sh -c iris start IRIS && \tiris session IRIS < iris.script &&     ([ $TESTS -eq 0 ] || iris session iris -U $NAMESPACE \"##class(%ZPM.PackageManager).Shell(\\\"test $MODULE -v -only\\\",1,1)\") &&     iris stop IRIS quietly" did not complete successfully: exit code: 1
 

In this article, I aim to demonstrate a couple of methods for easily adding validation to REST APIs on InterSystems IRIS Data Platform. I believe a specification-first approach is an excellent idea for API development. IRIS already has features for generating an implementation stub from a specification and publishing that specification for external developers (use it with iris-web-swagger-ui for the best results). The remaining important thing not yet implemented in the platform is the request validator. Let's fix it!

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'

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.

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.