InterSystems technologies are renowned for their high performing databases, which support the systems and operations of many organisations. However a key ingredient to this success is the quality and maintainability of their code.

The quality of code can impact everything from speed and ease of fixing bugs and making enhancements, to the overall performance of your organization and your ability to get ahead in the marketplace.

By ensuring your code is maintainable, you can reduce approximately 75% of the systems life cycle costs*. This is why, at George James Software, the solutions we build are always straightforward and written in high quality code - because we know that this solid foundation can positively impact the rest of your organization.

With a maintainable system you're able to reduce your overall maintenance as any issues that occur are significantly faster to identify and fix. This means you're free to allocate that time and budget to enhancements, enabling you to get the most value out of your applications and ultimately better support your organization.

Keep an eye out for our next few posts about what a maintainable system looks like and the tools that can help you keep your code maintainable, in order to help you to reduce those maintenance costs.

I have a handful of EnsLib.HL7.MessageRouter sending an HL7 message to a single Business Process (Ens.BusinessProcess).

In the OnRequest method, I am declaring pRequest as EnsLib.HL7.Message

What I need to do is determine which HL7 Router sent any given request to my BusinessProcess.

To do this, I know that I need to fetch the SourceConfigName property from the Ens.MessageHeader of the Request, but I am not sure how (or if) I can fetch this data from within the OnRequest Method.

Does anyone have any pointers?

Bill Casey

Hello,

I work on a dashboard. I understand basic html. I like to draw two boxes in different colors on the background. There will be multiple small boxes inside or over the boxes in the background. I defined the large boxes as <div> and the smaller boxes also as <div> inside the larger <div>. So far so good.

How can I draw lines with arrows between the smaller boxes?

Hey Developers,

New "Coding Talk" video was specially recorded by @Evgeny Shvarov for the IRIS Programming Contest:

⏯ How to Create and Submit an Application for InterSystems IRIS Online Programming Contest 2020

https://www.youtube.com/embed/qyUT195Pic0
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Would anyone recommend techniques on how to limit the amount of calls that external groups are making to our resources?

Recently we had an issue where one of our ODBC accounts maxed out the license to one of our DB servers (50 max).

This is a series of programming challenges for beginners and experienced Caché programmers.

For an introduction : go to article https://community.intersystems.com/post/advent-code-2016-day1-no-time-ta...

Today, you need to make a compiler for the language assembunny.
Luckily, this language has only 4 instructions :

Hello guys,

One thing keeps annoying me and I'm pretty sure it does many other people (my workmates as well, lol): every time I access the 'Message Viewer' screen, the 'Time Format' come with 'Time only' as a default. Can I make 'Complete' as the default value for it?

Thanks!

We encountered difficulties while attempting to establish a JDBC connection to Intersystems using AZURE Databricks, resulting in an inability to retrieve data. The JDBC version utilized was intersystems-jdbc-3.3.1.jar. If anyone has successfully employed Databricks for establishing a connection, we would appreciate information regarding the libraries you used

I have a webpage in CSP in which there is a link to download files (files are located in specific folder). When the user clicks on the link , it has to download the file into their local machine. Attached code for both upload and download the file from server, upload is working and download is printing the file in webpage rather than downloading it. Appreciate your help.

Upload (Working fine):

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

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

🥇 @Robert Cemper, ex Senior Sales Engineer from InterSystems, Austria
🥈 @Luis Angel Pérez Ramos, Sales Engineer, InterSystems, Spain
🥉 @Pietro Montorfano , Systems Management Specialist, InterSystems, Italy

Learn more about the competition and our awesome winners below.

Hi developers!

Often we need to deploy some data along with code pieces of the application.

And for InterSystems IRIS developers the question could sound: "How can I deploy the data I have in globals?"

Here I want to suggest to you one of the approaches - deploying global data using the ZPM package manager.

Hello community!

I have 2 productions A and B on the same IRIS instance sharing one operational database.

I'm looking for a simple and efficient way to send a message from production A to production B.
Any suggestion ? Could it be done through the database only?

And I wish you a happy new year!
Thanks :-)

I am using Atelier + EGit plugins for a project. Is it possible to turn the storage definition off in Atelier so this does not get copied to Git when I make changes? While developing on different versions of the code on different systems, it may cause conflicts and excess noise in the source control history

Let's say I have two classes: A and B. They share no common parent except %SystemBase. But these classes have some properties with the same name (type may be the same or not):

Class A {

Property data As C;

Property data2;

}

Class B {

Property data As D;

Property data3;

}

I need to automatically convert object of class A into object of class B. I'm planing to write a class generator that generates a separate class that converts A to B. It would work like this: