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Hi Developers,

🎄 Christmas cheer is in the air, and we decided to try something new for the last programming contest of the year. Welcome the

🏆 Bringing Ideas to Reality Contest 🏆

Submit an application that implements an idea from the InterSystems Ideas Portal that has statuses Community Opportunity or Future Consideration and requires doing the actual programming 😉

Duration: December 2 - 22, 2024

Prize pool: $14,000

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Hey Community,

We’re excited to introduce a whole new way for you to showcase your creativity and skills! This time, we’re inviting you to participate in our first-ever video challenge:

📹 InterSystems Tech Video Challenge 📹

Submit a video on any topic related to InterSystems IRIS products or services from October 21 - November 10, 2024.

🎁 Gifts for everyone + main prizes!

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· Jul 8, 2024 2m read
Configuring IRIS autostart on Linux

For practical reasons, it may be desirable that after a Linux server restart, the IRIS instance is automatically started.

Below you will find the steps to follow to automate the startup of IRIS during a reboot of the Linux server, via systemd :

1. Create an iris.service file in /etc/systemd/system/iris.service containing the following information

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I get the following error when I am trying to create a linked server connection via MS OLE DB Provider for ODBC Drivers in MS SQL Server Management Studio. The message I get is:

The OLE DB provider "MSDASQL" for linked server "IRIS" reported an error. The provider did not give any information about the error.
Cannot initialize the data source object of OLE DB provider "MSDASQL" for linked server "IRIS". (Framework Microsoft SqlClient Data Provider)

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Hi Developers,

We'd like to invite you to join our next contest dedicated to creating useful tools to make your fellow developers' lives easier:

🏆 InterSystems Developer Tools Contest 🏆

Submit an application that helps to develop faster, contributes more qualitative code, and helps in testing, deployment, support, or monitoring of your solution with InterSystems IRIS.

Duration: September 9 - 29, 2024

Prize pool: $14,000

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Hi, Community!

In this article, I will introduce Python Streamlit Web Framework.

Below, you can find the topics we will cover:

  • 1-Introduction to Streamlit Web Framework
  • 2-Installation of Streamlit module
  • 3-Running Streamlit Application
  • 4-Streamlit Basic commands
  • 5-Display multimedia
  • 6-Input widgets
  • 7-Display progress and status
  • 8-Sidebar and container
  • 9-Data Visualization
  • 10-Display a DataFrame

So, let's start with the first topic.

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· Sep 25, 2024 1m read
Same old terminal but in web

We have Webterminal around for quite a while, but it was limited, not all features worked there. There was no shell support or the latest feature as embedded Python support. There are some issues with tools that require programmer mode. Basic Authorization, not as handy as simple login page, where you could have options to add own login page, in case if you would wish to change the way how to login to the application, such as using SSO.

With the original iris terminal, wrapped into a web form, using most used in the web world xterm.js, used in tools like VSCode as well, with some magic from Python, which helped with interprocess tty. We can get the the terminal in the web, in the full capacity.

iTerm

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Hey Community,

It's time for the first programming contest of the year, and there's a surprise so read on! Please welcome:

🏆 InterSystems AI Programming Contest: Vector Search, GenAI, and AI Agents 🏆

Duration: March 17 - April 6, 2025

Prize pool: $12,000 + a chance to be invited to the Global Summit 2025!

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I found myself in the not-so-comfortable situation of working with a Linux system on which someone had accidentally disabled user access to the Linux shell. HealthConnect was running, servicing hundreds of interfaces. To resolve the access issue, though, we needed to bring the host down for the application of a fix.

Without the shell, the iris command is not available to control the instance, so we were faced with the potential of shutting down the server ungracefully. We wanted to avoid that if possible ...

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Hi Developer Community,

We all love coding, but every now and then, it’s time to step away from the code and exercise! The InterSystems Walking Challenge will help you recharge your mind and boost your fitness. Embark on a virtual journey from Lübeck to Lüneburg along the historic Salt Road, the legendary trade route that connected Europe centuries ago.

Win exciting prizes like treadmills, smartwatches, and medals.

👟🚶🧑‍🦼Lace Up, Step Out, and Code Better! 🔋💻💪

📅 Registration is open until November 8.The challenge ends on November 22, 2024, at 6 PM CET

Want to join? Details below.

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· Mar 27 4m read
2025.1 Modernizing Interoperability User Experience

The Interoperability user interface now includes modernized user experiences for the DTL Editor and Production Configuration applications that are available for opt-in in all interoperability products. You can switch between the modernized and standard views. All other Interoperability screens remain in the Standard user interface. Please note that changes are limited to these two applications and we identify below the functionality that is currently available.

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· Jul 16, 2024 6m read
Method or Class Method?

For programmers new to ObjectScript, one question will inevitably arise: “What is the difference between methods and class methods?” A typical answer would be: “A class method applies to a class, but a method applies to an instance of that class.” While that answer is correct, it lacks important information on how these methods di

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Updated 2/27/25

Hi Community,

You can unlock the full potential of InterSystems IRIS—and help your team onboard—with the full range of InterSystems learning resources offered online and in person, for every role in your organization. Developers, system administrators, data analysts, and integrators can quickly get up to speed.

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The first developer previews of InterSystems IRIS® data platform, InterSystems IRIS® for Health, and HealthShare® Health Connect 2025.1 have been posted to the WRC developer preview site. Containers can be found on our

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· Sep 11, 2024 9m read
Dates with InterSystems

Do not let the title of this article confuse you; we are not planning to take the InterSystems staff out to a fine Italian restaurant. Instead, this article will cover the principles of working with date and time data types in IRIS. When we use these data types, we should be aware of three different conversion issues:

  1. Converting between internal and ODBC formats.
  2. Converting between local time, UTC, and Posix time.
  3. Converting to and from various date display formats.

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Monitoring your IRIS deployment is crucial. With the deprecation of System Alert and Monitoring (SAM), a modern, scalable solution is necessary for real-time insights, early issue detection, and operational efficiency. This guide covers setting up Prometheus and Grafana in Kubernetes to monitor InterSystems IRIS effectively.

This guide assumes you already have an IRIS cluster deployed using the InterSystems Kubernetes Operator (IKO), which simplifies deployment, integration and mangement.

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