Hi everyone,
are you curious which topics we are going to cover at this year’s Global Summit? You have come to the right place! I will provide you with a sneak peek of what you can expect from the areas I am responsible for.
Announcements
Hi All
I am an avid user of ZEN for over 10 years now and it works for me.
But it seems that Intersystems are no longer actively developing it (or ZEN Mojo), the only published reference to this is here
Last reply 29 November 2019
Hi All
It's been 6 weeks since my original article 
- - - - -but I have been busy on this project 
I have been looking at/thinking about a replacement for ZEN for around 12 months but only really started in depth 4 months ago.
Also been in IT for long enough that I can "get a feel" for a product/technology and make decisions accordingly without going into great detail.
Any new technology has a learning curve and I don't want to waste time and effort on something that won't fly.
And, as always, I am looking to minimise the learning curve as I want to concentrate on delivering business benefit.
Last reply 11 April 2019
GraphQL is a standard for declaring data structures and methods of data access that serves as a middleware layer between the client and the server. If you’ve never heard about GraphQL, here is a couple of useful online resources: here, here and here.
In this article, I will tell you how you can use GraphQL in your projects based on InterSystems technologies.
Last reply 1 October 2019
Beginner, Best Practices, Change management, Containerization, Continuous Integration, Deployment, Docker, Git, System Administration, Caché
Everybody has a testing environment.
Some people are lucky enough to have a totally separate environment to run production in.
-- Unknown
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In this series of articles, I'd like to present and discuss several possible approaches toward software development with InterSystems technologies and GitLab. I will cover such topics as:
- Git 101
- Git flow (development process)
- GitLab installation
- GitLab WorkFlow
- GitLab CI/CD
- CI/CD with containers
This first part deals with the cornerstone of modern software development - Git version control system and various Git flows.
Last reply 22 November 2018
Published 2018-05-11 Last edit -
Hi All
I this article I detail some strategic issues that a new development UI will need to address - these are the ones that I can think of now - others may come to light during this journey.
See the webinar by Eduard Lebedyuk here from the last Global Summit describing modern web development and Caché
And, as always, if I have missed something please comment....
Last reply 9 October 2019
Hi All
This is the index to a series of articles I hope to create over the coming months.
ZEN and ZEN Mojo are no longer being actively developed by Intesystems - this is a great shame as it is a fine product that works so well for business applications.
However ZEN is a 15 year old product and I need a path forward to replace the ZEN UI with a supported development framework.
This article is an index of the other articles I have, or plan to write. - the articles will be subject to change as I develop my thoughts and climb the learning curve.
Last reply 5 April 2019
I have finished my 4th book about Caché and MUMPS. This will probably be my last.
I am deeply grateful and humbled for all the help I have received from this group and the WW Response Center.
You all have something very special going here.
Last reply 10 August 2018
I bet that not everyone familiar with InterSystems Caché knows about Studio extensions for working with the source code. You can actually use the Studio to create your own type of source code, compile it into interpretable (INT) and object code, and sometimes even add code completion support. That is, theoretically, you can make the Studio support any programming language that will be executed by the DBMS just as well as Caché ObjectScript. In this article, I will give you a simple example of writing programs in Caché Studio using a language that resembles JavaScript. If you are interested, please read along.
Last reply 2 December 2018
Hi all,
I'm pleased to announce this personal project to convert a number to text, in spanish, english, catalan and russian.
the aim of this function is to convert numbers into text. It allows a maximum number of 15 digits.
Last reply 8 October 2018
Easily transform a CSV file into a personalized preview of DeepSee - InterSystems BI
AnalyzeThis can be found on InterSystems Open Exchange. Use the Download link to navigate to GitHub and begin installing the project. Follow the “Installation” section of the GitHub README.
Last reply 20 November 2019
The Atelier 1.3 stable release update site (https://atelier.artifactoryonline.com/atelier/updates/stable/1.3/) has been updated to 1.3.117.
For the best upgrade experience, InterSystems suggests that you install Eclipse Photon fresh before installing Atelier 1.3.
New Features
Last reply 15 November 2018
IRIS brought us a new WOW feature - SHARDING !
Definitely a great thing!
But how can I find out if it suits my actual applications?
Is there a practical advantage to go for it with my well cooked transactional application?
Or is it just for new still to be designed applications?
Last reply 15 April 2019
Change management, Debugging, Deployment, Development Environment, Global Summit 2018, Global Summit
If you are attending Global Summit 2018 please be sure to say hello to George James Software in the Partner Pavilion.
You are also invited to the informal lunchtime meeting we're hosting at Global Summit on Tuesday 2nd October from 1pm in Indian Paintbrush, a meeting room at the conference venue. We will be previewing the next versions of Deltanji, our integrated source code management solution, and Serenji, our editor and debugger.
InterSystems Data Platform includes utilities and tools for system monitoring and alerting, however System Administrators new to solutions built on the InterSystems Data Platform (a.k.a Caché) need to know where to start and what to configure.
This guide shows the path to a minimum monitoring and alerting solution using references from online documentation and developer community posts to show you how to enable and configure the following;
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Caché Monitor: Scans the console log and sends emails alerts.
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System Monitor: Monitors system status and resources, generating notifications (alerts and warnings) based on fixed parameters and also tracks overall system health.
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Health Monitor: Samples key system and user-defined metrics and compares them to user-configurable parameters and established normal values, generating notifications when samples exceed applicable or learned thresholds.
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History Monitor: Maintains a historical database of performance and system usage metrics.
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pButtons: Operating system and Caché metrics collection scheduled daily.
Remember this guide is a minimum configuration, the included tools are flexible and extensible so more functionality is available when needed. This guide skips through the documentation to get you up and going. You will need to dive deeper into the documentation to get the most out of the monitoring tools, in the meantime, think of this as a set of cheat sheets to get up and running.
Last reply 11 March 2019
InterSystems supports use of the InterSystems IRIS Docker images it provides on Linux only. Rather than executing containers as native processes, as on Linux platforms, Docker for Windows creates a Linux VM running under Hyper-V, the Windows virtualizer, to host containers. These additional layers add complexity that prevents InterSystems from supporting Docker for Windows at this time.
Last reply 4 November 2019
What if you could serialize/deserialize objects in whatever format: JSON, XML, CSV,...; attending different criteria: export/import some properties and not others, transform values in this or that way before exporting/importing,...; and all of this without having to change the class definition? Wouldn't that be great??
Well, perhaps it's a goal too ambitious to reach 100% but, exploring this idea, I've developed a bunch of classes that I thought it was good to share. If you want to test, change, modify or improve the code, or just take a look at it, you can do it here. There you'll find a more detailed explanation (see Readme.md)
Be aware, this is a proof of concept for myself done in spare times, sure it's not robust enough or it can be done much better... but, I was just playing...ok, I could just wait to the new JSON Adaptor (coming soon!) that sure is going to resolve much more scenarios in a cleaner way, but... meanwhile... :-) ...
Last reply 26 April 2018
The question has come up several times and I saw mixed answers and no quick example
My personal preference is using CPIPE device as you get back exactly the output you will get at the command line interface of your OS .
The tricky thing is to stop reading in time.
The example just displays what you normally see in your console.
it becomes useful if you look for things that you can't get from any $system.whatever()
Last reply 18 December 2018
Hi, Community!
I have some good news for you!
I'm pleased to announce that Robert Cemper is a new Developer Community Moderator for 2018 year!
Robert joined DC in June 2017 and is responsible for a significant amount of experience, best practices and deep skills in InterSystems technology presented here in InterSystems Developer Community!
Congratulations, Robert! And thanks for your Yes to work as Moderator in InterSystems Community!
Last reply 1 March 2018
Beginner, Change management, Containerization, Continuous Delivery, Continuous Integration, Debugging, Deployment, Development Environment, Docker, Git, System Administration, Testing, Tips & Tricks, Tutorial, Caché
In this series of articles, I'd like to present and discuss several possible approaches toward software development with InterSystems technologies and GitLab. I will cover such topics as:
Background
InterSystems IRIS 2019 is going to introduce new and exciting features. One of the areas with new interesting must-to-know things is the API Management.
Last reply 21 June 2019
Astronomers’ tools
5 years ago, on December 19, 2013, the ESA launched an orbital telescope called Gaia. Learn more about the Gaia mission on the official website of the European Space Agency or in the article by Vitaly Egorov (Billion pixels for a billion stars).
However, few people know what technology the agency chose for storing and processing the data collected by Gaia. Two years before the launch, in 2011, the developers were considering a number of candidates (see “Astrostatistics and Data Mining” by Luis Manuel Sarro, Laurent Eyer, William O’Mullane, Joris De Ridder, pp. 111-112):
- IBM DB2,
- PostgreSQL,
- Apache Hadoop,
- Apache Cassandra and
- InterSystems Caché (to be more precise, the Caché eXTreme Event Persistence technology).
Comparing the technologies side-by-side produced the following results (source):
| Technology | Time |
|---|---|
| DB2 | 13min55s |
| PostgreSQL 8 | 14min50s |
| PostgreSQL 9 | 6min50s |
| Hadoop | 3min37s |
| Cassandra | 3min37s |
| Caché | 2min25s |
The first four will probably sound familiar even to schoolchildren. But what is Caché XEP?
Last reply 9 January 2019
Containers
With the launch of InterSystems IRIS Data Platform, we provide our product even in a Docker container. But what is a container?
The fundamental container definition is that of a sandbox for a process.
Containers are software-defined packages that have some similarities to virtual machines (VM) like for example they can be executed.
Containers provide isolation without a full OS emulation. Containers are therefore much lighter than a VM.
Last reply 15 November 2018
A new book on Caché Objects and Atelier $25 at Amazon.com
TinyUrl: https://tinyurl.com/y74jw49c
Coming on Kindle
Last reply 5 February 2018
"Telegram" is a well-known instant messenger, which provides an API for creating bots. 
The features of this API allow you to create bots with a wide range of functionality including receiving payments.
With the help of the telegram bot, I solved a simple task - sending Alerts from Ensemble to Telegram.
Advantages: Alerts come to the mobile phone, a notification appears, so there is no need to install any additional applications (in contrast to the solution https://community.intersystems.com/post/sending-alerts-mobile-phone-using-pushover- httpoutboundadapter).
The bot can be extended by adding new commands, for example, for managing the Production or for solving other tasks in Iris, Ensemble or Cache.
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Hi Community!
It's started! Home sale of the year!
This weekend, November 23-25, is a Black Friday Deals weekend on InterSystems Global Masters Advocate Hub!
Last reply 25 November 2018
Over the past few months, our team has been hard at work building a better Atelier experience for you. With three major new features and more than twenty enhancements, Atelier 1.2.118 makes it easier for you to develop important applications. It now also supports InterSystems IRIS Data Platform™, which enables you to rapidly build scalable, interoperable, and analytical data-rich applications.
Last reply 12 June 2018
Hi Community,
I would like to share with you my experience regarding to debugging via Atelier.
I'm developing a REST API and would like to attach to a process when I call the API via a REST Client tool, for example Postman. The purpose is to inspect values from HEADER and BODY of the HTTP request during the debugging process.
Come on! How am I doing? I am going to demonstrate that by using a class from SAMPLES namespace.
1 - Open Atelier;
2 - Open your REST Service class;
3 - Go to the method related to the URI that you need to debug;
Last reply 9 January 2018