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Brenna Quirk · 5 hr ago

#Beginner #Video #HealthShare #InterSystems IRIS for Health #Learning Portal

Hi, Community!

Want to build smoother communication between payer systems and providers? See how the Prior Authorization Support (PAS) module of the InterSystems Payer Services ePrior Authorization solution can help:

Prior Authorization Support

In this video, you will learn how PAS streamlines submission of prior authorization requests by connecting EHR systems with a payer's utilization management system.

Watch the full playlist on YouTube (10m).

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Article

Laurel James (GJS) · 6 hr ago 3m read

#API #George James Software #Release #REST API #SQL #Studio #Tools #VSCode #Open Exchange #Other

Welcome to the monthly recap of updates and releases to VS Code and InterSystems-related extensions that are relevant to IRIS developers.

We'll break down the updates that are relevant to InterSystems developers with tips on how they can be applied to your day-to-day projects.

Don't forget, if you're migrating from InterSystems Studio to VS Code, or want to deepen your knowledge, check out the VS Code training courses from George James Software: georgejames.com/vscode-training.

VS Code version 1.106

Unified AI-agent dashboard - 1.106 introduces an Agent Sessions view that consolidates all active sessions (cloud, local, CLI) into a single pane.

With this update, you can try out assistance from AI without immediately affecting your workplace.

But, even if you don't use AI tools, Agent Sessions can help if you experiment with automation such as scaffolding, documentation generation, code snippets etc.

Built-in task planning before coding - the new Plan Agent lets you sketch out complex implementation plans before writing any code.

Use this to outline and review a plan in VS Code before touching production, reducing the chance of mistakes and improving clarity for handoffs or peer reviews.

Edit & Navigation improvements

Deleted code in diff view is now selectable/copyable >> try this feature if you want to copy code from an old version.
The "Go to Line" command now supports jumping to a specific character offset >> this is helpful if you get precise error offsets or log stack-trace positions linking to a file position.
UI polish, including refreshed icons, better command-palette filtering, error hover copying improvements, and cross-file diff navigations to make editing smoother.

This release also includes contributions from our very own @John Murray through pull requests that address open issues.

View the full release notes: https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_106

George James Software VS Code extensions

InterSystems REST API Explorer - updated dependencies

Use this alongside the InterSystems Server Manager extension to explore REST APIs published by a server

gj :: configExplorer - we've been able to adopt intersystems/intersystems-iris-native 2.0.3 to enable this extension to be used directly on Windows.

Try out this VS Code extension to produce configuration diagrams for your servers.

InterSystems Official VS Code extensions

There have been no releases or updates this month, so here's our Marketplace pick:

gj :: dataLoader - it implements this idea and is @John Murray's entry into the "Bringing Ideas to Reality" Contest 2025.

This extension enables data to be loaded from text files into InterSystems IRIS SQL tables, from within VS Code.

Let us know in the comments if you try any of these features or VS Code extensions, and what you think.

Happy coding!

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Timothy Leavitt · 8 hr ago 2m read

#ObjectScript #InterSystems IRIS

There's a pattern I've encountered several times where I need to use a temp file/folder and have it cleaned up at some point later.

The natural thing to do here is to follow the patterns from "Robust Error Handling and Cleanup in ObjectScript" with a try/catch/pseudo-finally or a registered object to manage cleanup in the destructor. %Stream.File* also has a "RemoveOnClose" property that you can set - but use with care, as you could accidentally remove an important file, and this flag gets reset by calls to %Save() so you'll need to set it back to 1 after doing that.

There's one tricky case, though - suppose you need the temp file to survive in an enclosing stack level. e.g.:

ClassMethod MethodA()
{
    Do ..MethodB(.filename)
    // Do something else with the filename
}

ClassMethod MethodB(Output filename)
{
    // Create a temp file and set filename to the file's name
    Set filename = ##class(%Library.File).TempFilename()
    
    //... and probably do some other stuff
}

You could always pass around %Stream.File* objects with RemoveOnClose set to 1, but we're really just talking about temp files here.

This is where the concept of a "Singleton" comes in. We have a base implementation of this in IPM in %IPM.General.Singleton which you can extend to meet different use cases. The general behavior and use pattern is:

In a higher stack level, call %Get() on that class and get the one instance that will also be obtainable by calls to %Get() at lower stack levels.
When the object goes out of scope in highest stack level that uses it, the cleanup code runs.

This is a bit better than a % variable because you don't need to go checking if it's defined, and it also survives argumentless NEW at lower stack levels through some deep object trickery.

On to temp files, IPM also has a temp file manager singleton. Applying to this problem, the solution is:

ClassMethod MethodA()
{
    Set tempFileManager = ##class(%IPM.Utils.TempFileManager).%Get()
    Do ..MethodB(.filename)
    // Do something else with the filename
    
    // The temp file is cleaned up automatically when tempFileManager goes out of scope
}

ClassMethod MethodB(Output filename)
{
    Set tempFileManager = ##class(%IPM.Utils.TempFileManager).%Get()
    // Create a temp file and set filename to the file's name
    Set filename = tempFileManager.GetTempFileName(".md")
    
    //... and probably do some other stuff
}

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Benjamin De Boe · 8 hr ago

#Artificial Intelligence (AI) #Generative AI (GenAI) #Large Language Model (LLM) #InterSystems IRIS #InterSystems IRIS for Health

Hi,

We're working on new capabilities to help you build Agents and AI applications faster with InterSystems IRIS. In order to better understand which entry points and development methodologies would help you most, we've created this brief survey: Building AI solutions with InterSystems IRIS.

Filling it in should not take much more than 5 minutes, and your feedback on this exciting topic will help us fine tune our designs and prioritize the right features.

Thanks in advance!
benjamin

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Announcement

Sergio Farago · 11 hr ago

#Learning Portal

Valoramos vuestros comentarios sobre los recursos de aprendizaje que utilizáis para sacar el máximo partido a los productos de InterSystems. Tanto si habéis hecho cursos a vuestro ritmo o en directo, como si habéis consultado la documentación o conseguido una certificación, ¡nos encantaría saber vuestra opinión!

Decidnos qué recursos de aprendizaje habéis utilizado y qué os ha resultado útil. Vuestras opiniones nos ayudarán a mejorar nuestras propuestas en 2026 y en adelante.

La encuesta finaliza el 19 de diciembre de 2025.

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