I have been walking through this with a few team members and as such I thought there might be others out there who could use it, especially if you work with HL7 & Ensemble/HealthConnect/HealthShare and never venture out past the Interoperability section.

Introduction

In the next few weeks, my coworkers are planning to start using VSCode to code with InterSystems' products. Among the many advantages of that, I would emphasize being able to connect with other technologies, such as GitHub, with ease. Besides, VSCode also offers an extensive extensions store, where you can find many free add-ons that make coding faster and more efficient. Last but not least, to conquer the heart of every developer, it is open source.

Once again I would like to know, if there are any plans to make Java libraries available through normal channels like public mvnrepository, like the whole world it's doing, where anyone can find any JDBC driver to any database in the world but InterSystems.

Currently there is only some useless garbage. There are just very empty files. What was the point of posting it there?

It's time to announce the Winners for February! Please welcome our awesome Global Masters Heroes!

The storm of applause goes to these developers and their great contribution to DC in February:

🥇 @Kurro Lopez, Project manager, Salutic Soluciones, S.L, Spain
🥈 @Robert Cemper, ex Senior Sales Engineer from InterSystems, Austria
🥉 @Sylvain Guilbaud, Sales Engineer, InterSystems, France

Learn more about the competition and our awesome winners below.

What is the point of having a dedicated registry if it does not work properly most of the time?

$ docker pull containers.intersystems.com/intersystems/iris-community:latest-em
latest-em: Pulling from intersystems/iris-community
5526e9f3d5c5: Already exists
352b407541ae: Already exists
f6bff04f5338: Already exists
8c3b528467ff: Downloading [=======================>                           ]  125.8MB/262.2MB
e2b23b0bff05: Downloading [=============>                                     ]  124.8MB/462.1MB
failed to copy: httpReadSeeker: failed open: could not fetch content descriptor sha256:8c3b528467ff8cc07d86a4979e3e7b8fd36734205539923c8750e1d523f23367 (application/vnd.docker.image.rootfs.diff.tar.gzip) from remote: not found

When using InterSystems IRIS as an interoperability engine, we all know and love how easy it is to use the Message Viewer to review message traces and see exactly what's going on in your production. When a system is handling millions of messages per day, you may not know exactly where to begin your investigation though.

Over my years supporting IRIS productions, I often find myself investigating things like...

We recently uploaded to OpenExchange a small application that I developed a while ago (and that @Jose-Tomas Salvador improved and refined) that I often use when I need to generate large volumes of HL7 messaging.

iris-1 | [INFO] Starting InterSystems IRIS instance IRIS...
iris-1 | [INFO] Starting Control Process
iris-1 | Global buffer setting requires attention. Auto-selected 25% of total memory.
iris-1 | Allocated 1508MB shared memory
iris-1 | 953MB global buffers, 95MB routine buffers
iris-1 | This copy of InterSystems IRIS has been licensed for use exclusively by:
iris-1 | ISC RE Build Community Key
iris-1 | Copyright (c) 1986-2024 by InterSystems Corporation
iris-1 | Any other use is a violation of your license agreement
iris-1 | Starting IRIS

Have you ever been editing files in VS Code, but needed to check a global value or run a few ObjectScript commands? Now you can, with no setup required! If you have vscode-objectscript extension version 2.10.0 or later and are connected to InterSystems IRIS 2023.2 or later, you can now open a terminal connection to your server, regardless of where it's located.

There are three ways to open this new terminal:

I have a fixed width complex recordmap that is an older version of a file format. I am trying to retool it to fit the latest version. The old recordmap has almost 500 entries on it and the new version has a few more fields added along with changes to some field lengths. Adding a new field adds it at the end of the recordmap and moving it from field 490 to field 139 is a painful process. Is there an easier way of doing this?

Is it possible to add quotations " " so that it is part of the output?

For example:

set b = "Cat"

Set c = b

w c giving an output of "Cat" as opposed to Cat.

Let's have another round of code golf, with a different signature today!

Write a classmethod that will receive a variable number of parameters containing comma-separated strings and/or positive numbers, and returns one of four possible string values.

In HealthShare, we can add any new application that will show up in the left menu of the viewer. I am trying to add new navigation entries that will look like 'patient search' popup.

- Is Intersystems sharing its HealthShare style? They are using material tags, but it looks very different that the default material themes. I probably can pick up the style, but perhaps there is an official way.
- Is there a way to do a popup like patient search? So far I see, a new option is associated to an url not some javascript code?

Thank you for your help.

InterSystems FAQ rubric

Record maps are used to efficiently map files containing delimited records or fixed-width records to message classes used by the interoperability function, and to map files from interoperability function message classes to text files.

Record map mapping definitions can be created using the Management Portal, and we also provide a CSV record wizard that allows you to define while reading a CSV file.