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I joined InterSystems less than a year ago. Diving into ObjectScript and IRIS was exciting, but also full of small surprises that tripped me up at the beginning. In this article I collect the most common mistakes I, and many new colleagues, make, explain why they happen, and show concrete examples and practical fixes. My goal is to help other new developers save time and avoid the same bumps in the road.

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Summer is coming to an end, and we’re sure you had plenty of highlights! ✨

Maybe you learned something valuable, got yourself a reward on Global Masters, or even joined READY 2025 🎉

Here’s a quick checklist — but you can, of course, share anything else about your summer in the comments. Photos are more than welcome 📸

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This year, our InterSystems Developer Community turns 10 years old — and we’re inviting YOU to take part in the celebration!

We’re creating a special community video filled with greetings and memories from members worldwide. Want to join in? It’s simple:

▶️ Record a short clip (1-2 mins) where you:

  • Share a favorite highlight or memorable moment from your time in the Developer Community
  • Send your congratulations on the 10th anniversary 🎊

We’ll combine the contributions into one big celebratory video for everyone to enjoy! 🎬✨

👉 Click here to record your video

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Hi Community,

We're super excited and thankful to our 52 InterSystems colleagues who participated in the 📺 Demo Games for InterSystems Sales Engineers 📺 and created 19 amazing videos.

Our colleagues worldwide put their creativity, technical know-how, and demo magic to the test. What started as an internal contest to showcase technical skill and demo excellence became a true stage for imagination with some entries looking less like demos and more like short films, complete with acting, storytelling, and even a cinematic touch.

Also, we'd like to thank all the members of the Community who took the time to watch them and vote for their favourites!

And now it's time to announce the winners!

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Starting out with ObjectScript, it is really exciting, but it can also feel a little unusual if you're used to other languages. Many beginners trip over the same hurdles, so here are a few "gotchas" you'll want to watch out for. (Also few friendly tips to avoid them)

NAMING THINGS RANDOMLY

We have all been guilty of naming something Test1 or MyClass just to move on quickly. But once your project grows, these names become a nightmare.

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I am regularly contacted by customers about memory sizing when they get alerts that free memory is below a threshold, or they observe that free memory has dropped suddenly. Is there a problem? Will their application stop working because it has run out of memory for running system and application processes? Nearly always, the answer is no, there is nothing to worry about. But that simple answer is usually not enough. What's going on?

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Article
· Sep 4 4m read
IRIS in Docker for beginners

The article was motivated by the 2025 September Article Bounty
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The principle of Docker is just convincing to me.

  • Get a sandbox where you play and try whatever you want/need to do
  • Once done. You drop it without leaving traces in your working environment

This was the technical base for me to run about 700 reviews in OEX
with almost no side effects (except those caused by myself).

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#InterSystems Demo Games entry

⏯️ Health Evolve: Transforming Unstructured Data

Did you know that 80% of healthcare data is stuck in unstructured formats such as fax? If you take a walk down to Mass General in Boston, you'll literally see a state-of-the-art MRI machine next to a fax machine. Healthcare keeps building incredible new technology but can't let go of legacy technology. We call this the "legacy modernization paradox". This short film follows a care manager at Blue Plan who spends her days doing chart reviews, reading faxes line-by-line, struggling to provide her members the care they need. Everything changes when Blue Plan pilots InterSystems Health Evolve, a solution that transforms her faxes into machine-readable FHIR data ready for AI and analysis. To access our fully working Text-to-FHIR prototype, visit HealthEvolve.de.

Presenters:
🗣 @Vishal Pallerla, Sales Architect, InterSystems
🗣 @Erica Song, Sales Engineer, InterSystems
🗣 @Louis Kabelka, Sales Engineer, InterSystems
🗣 Zelong Wang, Sales Engineer, InterSystems
🗣 John Murtha, Health Plan Executive, InterSystems

https://www.youtube.com/embed/FcL1u3Ir0jM
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Hi Community,

Are you already InterSystems certified, or thinking about taking that next step?

InterSystems certification is a great way to showcase your skills and open new doors—but we'll let our certification holders speak for themselves:

https://www.youtube.com/embed/-o6q0Ty3l3o?si=oBczPSKodOkzg_Jw
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#InterSystems Demo Games entry

⏯️ Copilot for InterSystems Embedded BI

The Co-Pilot enables you to leverage InterSystems BI without deep knowledge in InterSystems BI. You can create new cube, modify existing cubes or leverage existing cubes to plot charts and pivots just by speaking to the copilot.

Presenters:
🗣 @Michael Braam, Sales Engineer Manager, InterSystems
🗣 @Andreas Schuetz, Sales Engineer, InterSystems
🗣 @Shubham Sumalya, Sales Engineer, InterSystems

https://www.youtube.com/embed/LSieoGzLFE4
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Hi Community,

Sometimes you may need to merge multiple accounts or simply update the email address you use across the different portals in the InterSystems Developer Ecosystem. Since each portal works a little differently, here’s a guide to help you through the process.

Change your email

If you’d like to use a different email (for example, use a work email instead of a personal one, or vice versa), here’s how to update it across the portals:

1. Update your email in InterSystems SSO. To do this:

  • follow the prompts on screen to change your email

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Dear Community,

I've noticed that some of my friends and colleagues are using the Developer Community app on their Android devices. Could someone please help me with the exe file or guide me on how to get it?

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Hello All,

I have used github (outside of IRIS) for many many years and have no problem with it. Also used SVN and other source control systems.

I have a conceptual problem understanding the ISC github links and how they work via VSCode.

https://github.com/intersystems/git-source-control

Our server is on Linux.

What I've done:

1. On Linux Server - d ##class(SourceControl.Git.API).Configure()

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Background

For a variety of reasons, users may wish to mount a persistent volume on two or more pods spanning multiple availability zones. One such use case is to make data stored outside of IRIS available to both mirror members in case of failover.

Unfortunately the built-in storage classes in most Kubernetes implementations (whether cloud or on-prem) do not provide this capability:

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Greetings,

As a long time Cache developer is there a way to get a copy of the Cache Studio that supports IRIS 2024.3? I do not have a WRC account? I need Studio just to experiment, not to build commercial software.

Thank you,

Everardo

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What are best practices for JSON transformation in IRIS interoperability? This is for a non-healthcare use case, so any tools we happen to have around FHIR might not be available. The motivating use case is trimming down a verbose and needlessly complex REST API response to feed to an LLM - trying to reduce token usage and maybe get better results from less noisy data.

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I would like to learn about the binary and document reference FHIR Resources. For the PDF data stored in those resources. But I think Binary Resource for the Document PDF stored in FHIR, so this resource is best for it. So sometimes Large PDF 15-page (~35md) data converts into base64 then data length is ~50 lac charecters length of base64binary data. this data store in Binary Resource on data field https://www.hl7.org/fhir/R4/binary.html follow this url this resource used in my case.

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Announcement
· Sep 1
[Demo Video]

#InterSystems Demo Games entry

This demo introduces an AI-powered clinical decision support tool built on InterSystems IRIS. The use case addresses clinician burnout by unlocking the wisdom trapped in 30,000 unstructured clinical notes. We showcase IRIS's powerful vector search to perform hybrid (semantic + keyword) queries for complex diagnostic challenges. The highlight is our multi-modal Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) assistant, which analyzes clinical video content in real-time to find similar past cases and synthesize evidence-based recommendations, transforming how clinicians access and utilize institutional knowledge.

🗣 Presenter: @Vishal Pallerla, Sales Architect, InterSystems

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Dear, Community!

I have a concern about using %Stream.TmpCharacter for storage purposes. Reading the class's source code, I can understand a bit about how it works. But I'd like to know from the community how it actually works. Is it necessary to use the .Clear() method to clear this buffer, or is it done automatically upon disposal?

Note: Please forgive my poor English.

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