If you're running IRIS in a mirrored configuration for HA in Azure, 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 main issue, when deploying to Azure, is that an IRIS VIP has a requirement of IRIS being essentially a network admin, per the docs.

To get HA, IRIS mirror members must be deployed to different availability zones in one subnet (which is possible in Azure as subnets can span several zones). One of the solutions might be load balancers, but they, of course, cost extra, and you need to administrate them.

In this article, I would like to provide a way to configure a Mirror VIP without the using Load Balancers suggested in most other Azure reference architectures.

How can I download IRIS for Health Community 2022.3? It appear the community download page is limited to the 2023 release and 2024 preview versions. I support the VA and the approved version is 2022.x

Every class on the server throws this same error when trying to run the debugger. I've already made sure I don't have the %SecureBreak role assigned which seems to typically fix this issue. Any advice on how to troubleshoot this would be greatly appreciated!

Error is : <COMMAND>zDebugStub+40^%Debugger.System.1

If you're viewing a HL7 message in the front end, with a schema correctly applied, you can mouse over a segment or a field and see the schema path, e.g:

Mousing over PV1 in the above message shows the schema path is "PIDgrp(1).PV1".

I'm writing a utility function which you pass an EnsLib.HL7.Message into. I'd like to loop through each segment and take action dependant on that schema path. How can I reference or determine that schema path in code?

Don’t know how to create an XML schema structure, there are no pre-defined categories in XML Schemas utility

Hi All,

On February 8, 2024, we asked for input from the IRIS community regarding exam topics for our InterSystems IRIS Developer Professional exam. We will close the window for providing feedback on the exam topics on Friday, March 8, 2024. If you would like to have your say in what topics are covered on the exam, this is your last chance!

How can I access the survey? You can access it here

Hi Community,

Can anyone point me to the docs that show how to add automatic class documentation for the arguments used in a method call? I can auto document the class, methods, properties etc. with the "///" but can't figure out how to get the nice argument documentation for the arguments used when calling a method.

Thanks in advance

Visual Studio Code releases new updates every month with new features and bug fixes, and the February 2024 release is now available.

Version 1.87 includes:

The goal is to identify programmatically all SOURCE namespaces on a server to which the routines are mapped. In the example below from the Namespaces page in Management Portal the answer would be USER. But some other namespaces on the same server could be mapped to a different namespace or even mapped to itself.

I save / compile a class and instantly run a debug. No issue

A few seconds later, try to run the same debug and get presented with either:

1) Target Source is not compiled (Open launch json) dialog box

OR

2) The version of the file on the server is newer.

In the meantime I have made no edits to the VS Code window at all.

s ftp=##class(%Net.FtpSession).%New()

s ok=ftp.Connect(server,user,password,port)
s ftp.Timeout = 100

i ok {

s ok=ftp.SetDirectory(directory)
i ok {
n files,file

s ok=ftp.NameList(directory,.files)
i ok {
f i=1:1:files.Count() {
s file=files.GetAt(i)
i (ftp.SetDirectory(file)) {
d ftp.SetToParentDirectory()
continue
}
s fname=$p(file,"/",$l(file,"/"))

Hi All,

When resending HL7 messages out, the receiving system rejects the message indicating the "Message Control ID already exists" (see error below). Iris retries resending the same message until the receiving system crashes and the BO disconnects in Iris. I would like to suspend the message when Iris receives that error and move on to the next message. Is this possible? Can it be handled by the BO Reply Code Actions settings? What reply code actions should I use?

hi,

I am trying to connect to an external MySQL database from IRIS 2023.1 platform. Does anyone know the right adapter to use? Where do you set up the DSN name?

Thank you in advance.

Sheetal

Hi All! We have a new online course that those of you who do integration work / create data transformations may be interested in: Editing Data Transformations via Code. This course is meant to build familiarity with the code behind data transformations in InterSystems products, enabling you to identify their class structures, logical elements, and more.