Article Joel Solon · Jul 29, 2025 12m read

Imagine you’re walking down the street on a nice summer’s day, and someone walks up to you and says “Hey, you work at InterSystems, right? I’ve been hearing more and more about InterSystems IRIS lately. I know IRIS has its own programing language called ObjectBook? or InstaScript? OK, I admit it, I know it’s called ObjectScript! I know IRIS also supports Python. I’m a Python developer, so that sounds great to me. But I’m also interested in ObjectScript. For example, Python and other languages support collections. Does ObjectScript support collections?”

You’d answer “Of course!”

And then your new friend might get excited and start firing off more questions:

  • How many kinds of collections does ObjectScript support?
  • Can ObjectScript use Python collections?
  • Can Python use ObjectScript collections?
  • Which collection is best?

How would you answer? Well, you don’t have to worry about answering. All you’d have to do is send your new friend the URL of this long page.

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Announcement Irène Mykhailova · Mar 10

Hi Community!

We’re building a series of short, hands-on Instruqt tutorials to help newcomers get up to speed with InterSystems technologies faster and more effectively. To kick things off, we’ve just released a new tutorial, “Data Models of InterSystems IRIS,” covering the fundamentals of the IRIS multimodel approach. This is exactly the type of focused, concise, practical learning experience we want to expand. And this is where you come in!

We’d love to hear your ideas for other tutorial topics to help developers new to InterSystems IRIS take their first steps with confidence. Please welcome the new sweepstakes:

💡 Topics for hands-on Instruqt Tutorials 💡

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Announcement Anastasia Dyubaylo · Feb 26

Hey Community!

Have you attended one of the Global Summits or a previous READY 2025? We’d love your help to inspire others to join InterSystems READY 2026!

We’re inviting community members to record a short video (less than 1 minute) answering one or more of these questions:

  • What did you find most valuable about attending?
  • What surprised you?
  • Why should others join READY 2026?
  • Who would benefit most from attending?

Your authentic perspective helps future attendees understand the real impact of these events, beyond the agenda.

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Article wisitsak sangiamsak · Jul 31, 2025 1m read

Here's a practical example of how to import data from a CSV file into InterSystems CACHÉ using ObjectScript
Assuming your CSV file is simple (e.g., comma-separated, with headers), you can use %Stream.FileCharacter to read it line by line and parse the data.
 

ClassMethod ImportCSV(filePath As %String) As %Status {
    Set stream = ##class(%Stream.FileCharacter).%New()
    Set sc = stream.LinkToFile(filePath)
    If 'sc Quit sc

    While 'stream.AtEnd {
        Set line = stream.

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InterSystems Official Daniel Palevski · 2 hr ago

Summary

Alert Id Product & Versions Affected Risk Category & Score Explicit Requirements
DP-449126 InterSystems IRIS® data platform 
InterSystems IRIS® for Health 
InterSystems Health Connect™ 
versions 2024.1.0 – 2024.1.5, 2024.2.0, 2024.3.0, 2025.1.0 – 2025.1.3, 2025.2.0, 2025.3.0
Data Integrity: Low Risk  Database updates executed as part of custom logic for CSP session events may not be journaled.

 

Issue

An issue has been corrected that prevented global sets and kills in custom logic from being journaled.

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Announcement Ronnie Hershkovitz · 2 hr ago

Hello Community!

We're pleased to invite you to the upcoming webinar in Hebrew:

👉Getting Started with OAuth 2.0 on InterSystems 👈

📅 Date & time: March 25th, 3:00 PM IDT

Modern web applications often need more than Basic Authentication. In this webinar, we’ll introduce OAuth 2.0 for InterSystems web applications and show how the new native OAuth 2.0 authentication support in InterSystems IRIS & Health Connect 2025.2 makes it easier to get started. Through a practical, real-world example, you’ll learn the core concepts behind OAuth 2.

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Question Scott Roth · 6 hr ago

While reviewing our Orphan messages, we noticed that there are some Orphans that look like they are the start of an HL7 message.

MSH|^~\&

Since this does not link to any Message Header, and most of the information in EnsLib_HL7.Message is NULL, is there a way to track down what Object maybe creating these so we can nip it in the bud.

Only way that I know of is to go through each of our Schema's and make both the MSH and Encoding Characters optional.

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Discussion Anastasia Safronova · Mar 4

READY 2026 is almost here and some people are still deciding whether to go 👀

Imagine a colleague asks you: “Why should I attend READY this year?”

You only get one sentence to convince them.
💙 Read other responses and like the ones that stand out to you. The comment with the most likes will receive 500 bonus points on Global Masters.

Drop your best argument below 👇

Let’s see who can make READY 2026 impossible to resist.

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Announcement Ali Nasser · Feb 18

Hello DC community, 

InterSystems Certification is currently developing a certification exam for ObjectScript developers, and if you match the exam candidate description below, we would like you to beta test the exam! The exam will be available for beta testing starting February 18th, 2026. 

Beta testing will be completed May 4, 2026.

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Question Oliver Wilms · Mar 15

I created a new repo called ipm-module-budget from https://github.com/intersystems-community/intersystems-iris-dev-template template.

I cloned the repo to an EC2 instance in AWS. When I try to build image, I see this error:

#8 22.09 [IRISAPP|ipm-module-budget] Reload START (/home/irisowner/dev/)Segmentation fault (core dumped) #8 ERROR: process "/bin/sh -c pip3 install -r requirements.txt && iris start IRIS && \tiris session IRIS < iris.scri pt && iris stop IRIS quietly" did not complete successfully: exit code: 139

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Article Murray Oldfield · Mar 13 4m read

Already included in SystemPerformance

There are nfs disk commands (including nfsiostat) included with SystemPerformance, but disabled by default. Enable them by running:

$$Enablenfs^SystemPerformance()

Doing so will add the following nfs commands, for example, on Linux:

  1. /usr/sbin/nfsstat -cn
  2. /usr/sbin/nfsiostat [interval] [count]

Ensure the commands are installed and runnable from the OS :)

This can be subsequently disabled via $$Disablenfs^SystemPerformance()


Adding a generic command to SystemPerformance

Adding an arbitrary OS tool creates a "user" command under ^IRIS.

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Article Myles Collins · Jul 22, 2025 6m read

Are you familiar with SQL databases, but not familiar with IRIS?  Then read on...

About a year ago I joined InterSystems, and that is how IRIS got on my radar.  I've been using databases for over 40 years—much of that time for database vendors—and assumed IRIS would be largely the same as the other databases I knew.  However I was surprised to find that IRIS is in several ways quite unlike other databases, often much better.  With this, my first article in the Dev Community, I'll give a high-level overview of IRIS for people that are already familiar with the other databases such as Oracle, SQL Server, Snowflake, PostgeSQL, etc.   I hope I can make things clearer and simpler for you and save you some time getting started.

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Article Ash Sherzhanov · Jul 31, 2025 3m read

SQL injection remains one of the most critical vulnerabilities in database-driven applications, allowing attackers to manipulate queries and potentially access or compromise sensitive data. In InterSystems IRIS, developers have access to both Dynamic SQL and Embedded SQL, each with distinct characteristics. Understanding how to use them securely is essential for preventing SQL injection.

The Problem: Dynamic SQL and SQL Injection

Dynamic SQL constructs queries as strings at runtime. While this offers flexibility, it also creates a vulnerability if user input is not handled correctly.

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InterSystems Official Daniel Palevski · Mar 17

Summary

Alert Id Product & Versions Affected Risk Category & Score Explicit Requirements
DP-448888

Products:
· InterSystems IRIS® data platform
· InterSystems IRIS® for Health
· InterSystems Health Connect™

Versions:
· 2024.3.0
· 2025.1.0 – 2025.1.3
· 2025.2.0
· 2025.3.0

Operational: High Risk ≥ 2 TB of database cache is used

Issue

In the versions specified above, an instance may fail to start or may hang during operation if the database cache is greater than or equal to 2,097,152 MB (2 TB).

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Question Jesse Jones · Mar 16

I have an issue and can't seem to find the problem.

Issue

 In some namespaces i get a 403 Page not Found error for healthconnect/csp/healthshare/[NAMESPACE]/%25ZEN.Dialog.namespaceSelect.cls ; healthconnect/csp/healthshare/[NAMESPACE]/%25ZEN.Dialog.finderDialog.zen  && healthconnect/csp/healthshare/[NAMESPACE]/_CSP.UI.Portal.About.zen

 

Iris setup

It is currently configured in a mirror group and on the other mirror-member i don't encounter the issue. (I have checked if it was because of the member-type Primary and Backup). 

The user that I am using has the %All role.

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Announcement Anastasia Dyubaylo · Mar 5

Hi Community,

We're super excited to share that we’ve just launched a new free, interactive tutorial designed especially for those who are new to InterSystems IRIS and looking for a clear, practical introduction to its core concepts.

🧑‍🏫 Data Models of InterSystems IRIS 🧑‍💻

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Question Luis Gallardo · Mar 17

We are trying to run the HS solution inside of a container, but we are getting the following errors un start up
03/17/26-10:19:05:108 (1386) 1 [Generic.Event] Cannot lock /usr/irissys/mgr/hslib/ err(13): will try accessing readonly
03/17/26-10:19:08:174 (1386) 1 [Generic.Event] Cannot lock /usr/irissys/mgr/enslib/ err(13): will try accessing readonly

I understand that those databases should be mounted as read only don't needing the lock, any idea how to fix it? or where should I look to configure it correctly?
Thanks!

03/17/26-10:19:08:176 (1463) 0 [Database.
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Announcement Olga Zavrazhnova · Mar 17

Hi Community,

We’re excited to introduce two new Global Masters milestone badges that recognize outstanding long-term contribution on the Developer Community.

These badges are part of the Global Masters program and reward members who reach major publishing and participation milestones on DC.

More badges and updates are coming soon - stay tuned 😊


🏆 Legend Author
Awarded for publishing 100 articles on the Developer Community.

 

100,000 points


❓ Curiosity Legend
Awarded for asking 100 questions on the Developer Community.

 

60,000 points


Keep publishing. Keep asking. Become a Legend. 🚀

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Article Muhammad Waseem · Dec 16, 2024 5m read

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Hi Community,
In this article, I will introduce my application iris-HL7v2Gen .

IRIS-HL7v2Gen is a CSP application that facilitates the dynamic generation of HL7 test messages. This process is essential for testing, debugging, and integrating healthcare data systems. The application allows users to generate a wide variety of HL7 message types, validate their structure against HL7 specifications, explore the message hierarchy, and transmit messages over TCP/IP to production systems. These features are particularly useful in settings where compliance with HL7 standards is mandatory for interoperability between different healthcare organizations or systems.

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Question Robert Cemper · Feb 3, 2025
USER>do $System.Python.Shell()
 
ERROR #5002: ObjectScript-Error: <OBJECT DISPATCH>Shell+16^%SYS.Python.1 
*Failed to Load Python: Check documentation and messages.log, 
Check CPF parameters:[PythonRuntimeLibrary,PythonRuntimeLibraryVersion], 
Check sys.path setup in: $INSTANCE/lib/python/iris_site.py
02/03/25-18:27:39:497 (13156) 1 [Generic.Event] CPF settings (PythonRuntimeLibraryVersion) do not specify python correctly - Python can not be loaded
02/03/25-18:27:39:498 (13156) 1 [Generic.
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Announcement KC Lu · Mar 16

Since our previous announcement, we have introduced several incremental improvements to the client‑side editing experience in VS Code. These updates focus on preserving developer‑authored formatting when synchronizing with the server.

What Changed

Client‑side *.cls files previously lost certain formatting details during compilation, including keyword casing (e.g., classmethod → ClassMethod), normalization of blank lines between class members, and removal of line breaks within parameter lists.

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Article Robert Barbiaux · Mar 16 12m read

There are lessons we learned from developing and maintaining code for interoperability components within a healthcare institutional environment.

The plane is already flying

Be prepared to rebuild, improve, extend, and fix the plane mid-flight.
 

Maintenance windows for hospital systems are often very limited, with some required to be operational 24/7. While the health critical systems such as imagery modalities or registration kiosks — or at least their critical functions — must operate autonomously, efficiency and usability may be compromised when interoperability components malfunction.

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