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· Sep 2, 2024

InterSystems Developer Tools Contest 2024

#Contest #Events #IRIS contest

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


The topic

💡  InterSystems IRIS developer tools 💡

In this contest, we expect applications that improve developer experience with IRIS, help to develop faster, contribute more qualitative code, help to test, deploy, support, or monitor your solution with InterSystems IRIS.

General Requirements:

  1. An application or library must be fully functional. It should not be an import or a direct interface for an already existing library in another language (except for C++, where you really need to do a lot of work to create an interface for IRIS). It should not be a copy-paste of an existing application or library.
  2. Accepted applications: new to Open Exchange apps or existing ones, but with a significant improvement. Our team will review all applications before approving them for the contest.
  3. The application should work either on IRIS, IRIS for Health or IRIS Cloud SQL. The first two could be downloaded as host (Mac, Windows) versions from Evaluation site, or can be used in the form of containers pulled from InterSystems Container Registry or Community Containers: intersystemsdc/iris-community:latest or intersystemsdc/irishealth-community:latest .  
  4. The application should be Open Source and published on GitHub. 
  5. The README file to the application should be in English, contain the installation steps, and either the video demo or/and a description of how the application works.
  6. No more than 3 submissions from one developer are allowed.

NB. Our experts will have the final say in whether the application is approved for the contest or not based on the criteria of complexity and usefulness. Their decision is final and not subject to appeal.

Prizes

1. Experts Nomination - a specially selected jury will determine the winners:

🥇 1st place - $5,000 

🥈 2nd place - $3,000 

🥉 3rd place - $1,500

🏅 4th place - $750

🏅 5th place - $500

🌟 6-10th places - $100

2. Community winners - an application that will receive the most votes in total:

🥇 1st place - $1000 

🥈 2nd place - $750 

🥉 3rd place - $500

🏅 4th place - $300

🏅 5th place - $200

If several participants score the same amount of votes, they all are considered winners, and the money prize is shared among the winners. 

Who can participate?

Any Developer Community member, except for InterSystems employees (ISC contractors allowed). Create an account!

Developers can team up to create a collaborative application. 2 to 5 developers are allowed in one team.

Do not forget to highlight your team members in the README of your application – DC user profiles.

Important Deadlines:

🛠 Application development and registration phase:

  • September 9, 2024 (00:00 EST): Contest begins.
  • September 22, 2024 (23:59 EST): Deadline for submissions.

✅ Voting period:

  • September 23, 2024 (00:00 EST): Voting begins.
  • September 29, 2024 (23:59 EST): Voting ends.

Note: Developers can improve their apps throughout the entire registration and voting period.

Helpful resources

✓ Example applications:

✓ Templates we suggest to start from:

✓ For beginners with IRIS and Python:

✓ For beginners with IRIS and ObjectScript:

✓ For beginners with ObjectScript Package Manager (ZPM):

✓ How to submit your app to the contest:

Need Help?

Join the contest channel on InterSystems' Discord server or talk with us in the comments section of this post. 

We can't wait to see your projects! Good luck 👍

By participating in this contest, you agree to the competition terms laid out here. Please read them carefully before proceeding. 

 
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Announcement
· Sep 2, 2024

The 2nd InterSystems Japan Technical Writing Contest!

#Contest #Events #InterSystems IRIS #InterSystems IRIS for Health #IRIS contest

Hello developers!

Last year, for the first time, we held the Technical Article Contest on Japan's InterSystems Developer Community, and 📣 we are holding it again this year!📣

The topics are the same as last year, and you can submit any content related to InterSystems IRIS／InterSystems IRIS for Health.

🖋 InterSystems Japan Technical Article Contest – 2024: Articles related to IRIS 🖋

🎁 Participation prize：Everyone who submits a post will receive our👚Developer Community’s original T-shirt👕!！

🏆 Special Prize：Authors of three selected works will receive special prizes.

Updated on 30/8: Prize information added!Please check it out!👇

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· Sep 1, 2024

how to kill %SYSTEM.WorkMgr process

#Caché #Ensemble

i use %SYSTEM.WorkMgr  to handle data by multicompile=1,but i find that,after WaitForComplete,the processes created by %SYSTEM.WorkMgr  are still stand by,

and status is evtw,after i run many times,the processes are more.and this will cause server falls into trouble.so my question is ，how to kill the processes that created by using the %SYSTEM.WorkMgr，and how to avoid  to make the server falls into trouble,why  this will cause server falls into trouble。and is there a better way to handle data by mult process？

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Question
· Aug 30, 2024

Only load part of XML/ SQL Snapshot in visual trace- portal loads too slow

#Business Service #Management Portal #Message Search #InterSystems IRIS for Health

As part of fully decoupling code we send a snapshot from a business service (running a SQL statement). 

sql service                         Processor                                File Out

This is picked up by a processer and puts it into a file .txt. 

Issue is if you open it up via the SQL.snapshot message as this is 46,819 rows it'll take too long to respond to opening up the sql.snapshot in the message viewer when viewing the session if looking from the business service 

Is there any way to not have this xml open up in full in the portal? I.e. have a see more? 

I am aware this could just be in the BP but for me this is the correct integration setup- SQL service to pick up the data- process to do something with it (passed in the correct message type for it) and then sent to a file/ downstream. 

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Question
· Aug 30, 2024

Changing a Setting value on a schedule?

#Tips & Tricks #Ensemble

I can START and STOP a business process via its Schedule setting.

Is it possible to change the value of another Setting in an analogous way?

I can imagine a SettingSchedule that could look like 

action:YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ss[,action:YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ss]

But rather than just START or STOP, action could be "SET Setting = value", overriding whatever the normal value is.

Is there an existing way of achieving this kind of functionality?

I've got a business process that triggers from a scheduled task, and sends documents to a downstream system according to business requirements. At certain times of the day there will be more documents in the queue than the downstream system can cope with - I'd like to say:

  • between time XXXX and time YYYY never send more than NN documents at a time, even if there are more in the queue
  • at other times send as many as are in the queue.

Then the code in the business process would pick up the (current value at the point of execution, according to the schedule) and send that many documents.

(We are currently planning on achieving this by adding another Property to the scheduled task, and adding that to the trigger message, but wondered whether there was another way of doing it.)

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