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I decided to write this down before time wiped out my memoryIt's a very personal story as a partner, as a competitor, as an employee,as a customer and finally as an external observer of InterSystems. After superfast graduation from Technical University in Vienna,some years of development for a virtual machine at SIEMENS,some hard-core networking experience and core OS development at OLIVETTII joined Digital Equipment (DEC) in 1978 as a support and sales engineer of their brand new DSM-11. The core of DSM-11 - the Global module - was written by Terry Ragon.I had the chance to meet him during the kick-off training in Maynard, MA.InterSystems was rather fresh after its foundation. It was a challenging time to get in all the (to me) new hardware technologyand all the details of that big cake of operating system, database, and interpreter.It was fascinating. It was great to see how I could win any benchmark againsttraditional relational DBs.As the provider of the core engine, I saw InterSytems as a Partner Though based on my background in virtualization. I just couldn't resist modifying and adjusting drivers and disk modules to transform DSM-11into a "Layered Product" [an App] running with almost the sameperformance on top of RSX-11M. You might imagine DEC was not so pleased with this experiment.Especially as short time later, they started the same exercise on VMS.The result was poor and not attractive to customers at that time.DEC was just not able to understand what jewel they had in their hands.Later, under the guidance of InterSystems, this gap was closed. But one of my customers invited me to write his own "DSM-like" OSdirectly on bare-bone VAX without any bit of VMS.How often did you hear from such an engineering opportunity?It was one of those"IMPOSSIBLE - CAN'T BE DONE" triggers that I met during my life.We were 2 experienced engineers dedicated to the project:Bought a VAX-750 in 1981, started to read the processor handbook and after passing page 35 we started typing on the console.Realistic:- There was a design beyond the limits of PDP- There was a stack of new functionalities- Already supporting diskless machines over Ethernet,- I created the bootstraps, my own protocol on Ethernet,my own hardware format on disk, that no one else could read...... A huge effort. But after 18 months only it was doneand we could run the first installation at a customer.This was the time when InterSystems became a Competitor.A very remote one since there was no overlap in the market.We watched suspiciously each other from a far distance. It was a commercial success for the company.For me, it became a lot of routine work with MicroVAX as a main box.Bug fixing and a fresh release every now and then was no real challenge.Some years later DEC offered a new "MISSION IMPOSSIBLE" to me and I followedIt was a technology challenge - but far from the old DSM that was goneout of scope. And it converted into an organizational and management challengeSo I sold my "Engineer Soul" to climb up international management in DEC.But that made me aware of the "Quality" and "Customer first" mindset. When Compaq bought DEC, the local management structures were destroyed.Looking for new opportunities I was contacted by a headhunter.Big surprise: his customer was InterSystems: Within a few weeks, I joined as Employee and felt at home immediately.Now I realized what I had missed for a long time - Creative Working -and what I had sold just for a few bucks more.I just joined when objects became invisible in the local partition.Caché Studio was fresh and new. And 2 decades of development had gone.But the basic structures were the same that I had built into my own variant.And of top importance to me "Quality first" + "Customer dedication" I spent 12 very exciting years at InterSystems seeing a lot of new featuresraising and some less attractive ones fading away.But it was never a routine job. Every day a different challenge to fight.I'm especially proud that I never lost any benchmark against other DBs:Topped by winning against Oracle Spacial by a significant factor.After my retirement 9 years ago I changed into the role of aCustomer of InterSystems. This experience completes the image.A very personal pleasure to me is this Developer Community that I joined in 2017Now I see myself in the role of Observer of InterSystems. understand I proposed it already back in 2005. But it was just too early to be accepted My dedication to Customers + Quality is unbroken and my message tomy support engineers at DEC is still valid for me: the customer is always right - he has the problem our products may have a bug - so find it the description of our products might be wrong - explain it better don't assume the customer has your technical background - explain in detail we didn't understand what the bug is - ask twice and try to listen deeper Those are also the 5 principles I apply when I do my reviews on OEXand that makes the quality of an OEX package. Now in 2023 I became a critical Observer and have my surprises,have some dejà-vue recognizing old ideas fresh dressed. My applausefor news is filtered. Some are great some less convincing. I always try to pass on my personal experience to those that ask for it.And sometimes I try to remind contributors, that their articles orpackages are a service to the other members and they deserve Quality. I hope it wasn't boring for you. Thanks for sharing, @Robert.Cemper1003. Always interesting to hear about the early days! Thanks for this great article @Robert.Cemper1003 ! This brings back memories ... I did some benchmark testing as a student on a DEC MicroVAX I in 1987 in VMS (using a VT100 terminal). I didn't work with M at that time yet but our retail business run by older family members started using it in +/-1986 on a PC AT (Micronetics MSM running on top of DOS) with an ISA bus terminal multiplexer card - RS232/422 cables were installed for multiple Falco VT420 terminals. Soon after, our other retail business started using Digital Unix workstations with these VT terminals too. I started programming in M in 1997 using DTM, soon followed by Open M when we grounded our current retail business and now - 26 years later - I'm writing modern apps and api's in JavaScript/ObjectScript using a Caché/IRIS + Node.js back-end running on the same globals structure! I don't think many technologies can stay relevant/on top for that long ... 😉 Hello @Robert.Cemper1003 thanks for this beautiful personal story ; a priceless testimonial of what happened before the IRIS era. If it can reassure you, in no way boring and even very pleasant from a narrative and purely literary point of view. 😊 Thanks @Robert.Cemper1003 for sharing @RobertCemper - our paths have crossed a time or two. I hope they will again. Thanks @Robert Cemper for sharing, very insightful story @Robert.Cemper1003 Robert Cemper, I joined InterSystems in 2023 (23 months ago) as a Sales Engineer and prior to joining new almost nothing about IRIS (I have been working for a while with small and very large tech companies in development and sales engineering). So nice to read you posts always, but this one which I happen to find when looking you up (to try and follow you as you are so prolific on here) to help improve my depth of knowledge on InterSystems. Reading your post here felt like I was reading an excerpt from one of my favorite history of technology novels, "The Soul of a New Machine" by Tracy Kidder.

Hi Community, On 8-9 June 2020 InterSystems UK & Ireland will be hosting the annual events for its customers, offering both technical and strategic insight content on the different ways to achieve successful digital innovation: ➡️ InterSystems UKI Developer MeetUp ➡️ InterSystems UKI Innovation Day InterSystems is committed to your success, and to ensure we make the best use of your valuable time, we would like to understand more about the technology drivers and challenges your business is facing now, and how you are preparing beyond 2020. With your help, we can ensure that the conference agenda features topics relevant to your business, with information that will maximize your IT investment and partnership with InterSystems. The survey will only take an estimated 3 minutes to complete. Thank you in advance for your feedback! SAVE THE DATE Keep your eyes peeled for an official event invitation in coming weeks, but you can save the date and register your interest here.

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Hi colleagues! Every day Johns Hopkins University publishes new data on coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic status. I built a simple InterSystems IRIS Analytics dashboard using InterSystems IRIS Community Edition in docker deployed on GCP Kubernetes which shows key measures of the disease outbreak. This dashboard is an example of how information from CSV could be analyzed with IRIS Analytics and deployed to GCP Kubernetes in a form of InterSystems IRIS Community Edition. Added the interactive map of the USA: The next dashboard shows the timeline: And can be filtered by country. E.g. here is in the USA: The source code of the application is available on Open Exchange. How does it work? Demo runs using InterSystems IRIS Community Edition docker container and exposes InterSystems IRIS BI dashboards using DeepSee Web representation layer via MDX2JSON REST API. Its deployed on GCP and operates using Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). How it was developed The data is taken from the Johns Hopkins repository in CSV form. Classes, cubes, and initial pivots were generated via Analyzethis module, thanks @Peter.Steiwer! Import method then was introduced using the CSVTOCLASS method, thanks @Eduard.Lebedyuk! Dashboards are rendered with DeepSee Web (DSW) module. IRIS BI artifacts (pivots, dashboards) were exported by ISC.DEV module: IRISAPP> d ##class(dev.code).workdir("/irisdev/app/src") IRISAPP> d ##class(dev.code).export("*.dfi") The code has been developed using VSCode ObjectScript, thanks @Dmitry.Maslennikov. Building docker image for development and deploymentAll the deployment sits in Dockerfile. With Dockerfile we build an image with data, web apps and modules installed and properly setup and then we deploy the image to GCP Kubernetes. This Dockerfile is a modified version of this Template Dockerfile which is described very well in this article. All the preliminary steps are being done in iris.script file: Here we install DeepSee Web. zpm "install dsw" This enables IRIS Analytics (DeepSee) for /csp/irisapp web app: do EnableDeepSee^%SYS.cspServer("/csp/irisapp/") This code is needed to make the analytics web app be available without credentials: zn "%SYS" write "Modify MDX2JSON application security...",! set webName = "/mdx2json" set webProperties("AutheEnabled") = 64 set webProperties("MatchRoles")=":%DB_IRISAPP" set sc = ##class(Security.Applications).Modify(webName, .webProperties) if sc<1 write $SYSTEM.OBJ.DisplayError(sc) And here in Dockerfile this command helps to set DSW configuration. COPY irisapp.json /usr/irissys/csp/dsw/configs/ Deployment to Kubernetes The deployment procedure is being processed by Github Actions - and this workflow handles it on every commit to the repository. Github workflow uses Dockerfile we built on a previous step along with Terraform and Kubernetes settings. The procedure is identical to the one described in this article by @Mikhail.Khomenko. How to run and develop it locally You are very welcome to run, develop and collaborate with this project. To run it locally using docker do: Clone/git pull the repo into any local directory $ git clone https://github.com/intersystems-community/objectscript-docker-template.git Open the terminal in this directory and run: $ docker-compose build Run the IRIS container: $ docker-compose up -d Once the container is built up and running open the application on: localhost:yourport/dsw/index.html#/irisapp How to Develop This repository is ready to code in VSCode with the ObjectScript plugin. Install VSCode, Docker, and ObjectScript plugin and open the folder in VSCode. How to Contribute Fork the repository, make changes, and send Pull Requests. See the video for more information. Would love to see your contribution! Wow Evgeny, this is very cool. Thank you. Great to see this! Look forward to people using it and improving / extending it! Thank you, Joe! This is a rather simple example but it could be a good beginning in working with COVID-19 data with InterSystems IRIS on a local machine and docker container along with a GitHub Actions deployment workflow to Google Kubernetes cloud. Thank you, Jeff! Yes! Developers! The repository is fully prepared for collaboration! Your forks and Pull Requests are very welcome! The US reached 100K COVID-19 confirmed. Italy and USA both lead the disease stats: Introduced the second dashboard: -Covid timeline. And can be filtered by country. E.g. here is the USA: Introduced the interactive map of the USA on the spreading of COVID-19. Thanks to @Semen.Makarov for DSW-map, @Eduard.Lebedyuk for the help with DeepSee IRIS Analytics, and @Arun.Tiriveedhi9645 for the PR for the update from Github data source. Added the world map: All dashboards. Added a new dashboard with a bubble chart on Confirmed-Recovered-Deaths for Top-10 countries: 💡 This article is considered as InterSystems Data Platform Best Practice. Fixed the URL this is fixed too

Hi Developers! Recently we updated the design of Open Exchange and I want to describe how you can find the solutions you are interested in. Applications Catalog The first thing you see is the catalog of published applications, tools, and solutions. The number of applications shows you how many are published or/and fit your query. You can find the solution you are looking for with the following set of Categories, Products or Industries: Or you can just search for the tool you are looking for. E.g. let's find applications which help to work with "Python": Application The application page shows the Name, version, description, author, publisher (if any), release date, repository, documentation, license, and Download: Also, it has an active Discuss button if the application has the related post on Developers Community Every app could have release history: And issues/tasks open for the application which you can add to a related Github repository: All the application releases appear on the News page, where you can see the release news and links to the app and author: You can check all the applications of a particular author. E.g. here are the apps from @Eduard.Lebedyuk: Applications could be published on behalf of the company. Here are the companies which publish applications on Open Exchange: And you can check all the applications published by a particular company. E.g. by George James: This was a quick guide on InterSystems Open Exchange features. In the next article, we'll review how to publish an application on Open Exchange. Stay tuned!

Hi Community, The new video from Global Summit 2019 is already on InterSystems Developers YouTube: ⏯ InterSystems IRIS on HCI HCI, or hyper-converged infrastructure, is a software-defined IT infrastructure that virtualizes all the elements of a conventional system. This video will show the benefits and limitations of deploying an InterSystems IRIS-based application on HCI. Takeaway: You will gain an understanding of HCI, and learn where and when it may be useful. Presenter: @Murray.Oldfield, Technology Architect, InterSystems Additional materials to this video you can find in this InterSystems Online Learning Course. Enjoy watching this video! 👍🏼

In Episode 7 of Data Points, product manager @Carmen.Logue joined the pod to tell us all about InterSystems Reports — the new reporting feature of InterSystems IRIS! Take a listen to hear about its capabilities, use cases, and how it fits into the existing set of analytics technologies. For more information and to subscribe on your favorite podcast app, head over to https://datapoints.intersystems.com. There, you can also find links to the previous episodes. Make sure to rate the podcast if you're using Apple Podcasts, as well!

 This article will cover turning over control of provisioning the InterSystems Kubernetes Operator, and starting your journey managing your own "Cloud" of InterSystems Solutions through Git Ops practices. This deployment pattern is also the fulfillment path for the [PID^TOO||](https://www.pidtoo.com)| FHIR Breathing Identity Resolution Engine. ### Git Ops I encourage you to do your own research or ask your favorite LLM about Git Ops, but I can paraphrase it here for you as we understand it. Git Ops is an alternative deployment paradigm, where the Kubernetes Cluster itself is "pulling" updates from manifests that reside in source control to manage the state of your solutions, making "Git" an integral part of the name. ### Prerequisites * Provision a Kubernetes Cluster , this has been tested on EKS, GKE, and MicroK8s Clusters * Provision a GitLab, GitHub, or other Git Repo that is accessible by your Kubernetes Cluster ### Argo CD The star of our show here is [ArgoCD](https://argoproj.github.io/cd/), which provides a declarative approach to continuous delivery with a ridiculously well done UI. Getting the chart going on your cluster is a snap with just a couple of strokes on your cluster. kubectl create namespace argocd kubectl apply -n argocd -f \ https://raw.githubusercontent.com/argoproj/argo-cd/stable/manifests/install.yaml Let's go get logged into the UI for ArgoCD on your Kubernetes Cluster, to do this, you need to grab the secret that was created for the UI, and setup a port forward to make it accessible on your system. **Grab Secret** Decrypt it and put it on your clipboard.  **Port Forward** Redirect port 4000 (or whatever) to your local host  **UI** Navigate to https://0.0.0.0:4000 and supply the secret to the login screen and login.  ### InterSystems Kubernetes Operator (IKO) Instructions for obtaining the IKO Helm chart in the [documentation ](https://docs.intersystems.com/components/csp/docbook/DocBook.UI.Page.cls?KEY=AIKO)itself, once you get it, check it in to your git repo in a feature branch. I would provide a sample repo for this, but unfortunately cant do it without violating a re-distribution as it does not appear the chart is available in a public repository. Create yourself a feature branch in your git repository and unpack the IKO Helm chart into a single directory. As below, this is `iko/iris_operator_amd-3.5.48.100` off the root of the repo. On `feature/iko` branch as an example: ├── iko │ ├── AIKO.pdf │ └── iris_operator_amd-3.5.48.100 │ ├── chart │ │ └── iris-operator │ │ ├── Chart.yaml │ │ ├── templates │ │ │ ├── apiregistration.yaml │ │ │ ├── appcatalog-user-roles.yaml │ │ │ ├── cleaner.yaml │ │ │ ├── cluster-role-binding.yaml │ │ │ ├── cluster-role.yaml │ │ │ ├── deployment.yaml │ │ │ ├── _helpers.tpl │ │ │ ├── mutating-webhook.yaml │ │ │ ├── service-account.yaml │ │ │ ├── service.yaml │ │ │ ├── user-roles.yaml │ │ │ └── validating-webhook.yaml │ │ └── values.yaml **IKO Setup** Create `isc` namespace, and add secret for `containers.intersystems.com` into it. kubectl create ns isc kubectl create secret docker-registry \ pidtoo-pull-secret --namespace isc \ --docker-server=https://containers.intersystems.com \ --docker-username='ron@pidtoo.com' \ --docker-password='12345' This should conclude the setup for IKO, and enable it's delegate it entirely through Git Ops to Argo CD. ### Connect Git to Argo CD This is a simple step in the UI for Argo CD to connect the repo, this step ONLY "connects" the repo, further configuration will be in the repo itself.  ### Declare Branch to Argo CD Configure Kubernetes to poll branch through Argo CD `values.yml` in the Argo CD chart. It is up to you really for most of these locations in the git repo, but the opinionated way to declare things in your repo can be in an "App of Apps" paradigm. Consider creating the folder structure below, and the files that need to be created as a table of contents below: ├── argocd │ ├── app-of-apps │ │ ├── charts │ │ │ └── iris-cluster-collection │ │ │ ├── Chart.yaml ## Chart │ │ │ ├── templates │ │ │ │ ├── iris-operator-application.yaml ## IKO As Application │ │ │ └── values.yaml ## Application Chart Values │ │ └── cluster-seeds │ │ ├── seed.yaml ## Cluster Seed **Chart** apiVersion: v1 description: 'pidtoo IRIS cluster' name: iris-cluster-collection version: 1.0.0 appVersion: 3.5.48.100 maintainers: - name: intersystems email: support@intersystems.com **IKO As Application** apiVersion: argoproj.io/v1alpha1 kind: Application metadata: name: iko namespace: argocd spec: destination: namespace: isc server: https://kubernetes.default.svc project: default source: path: iko/iris_operator_amd-3.5.48.100/chart/iris-operator repoURL: {{ .Values.repoURL }} targetRevision: {{ .Values.targetRevision }} syncPolicy: automated: {} syncOptions: - CreateNamespace=true **IKO Application Chart Values** targetRevision: main repoURL: https://github.com/pidtoo/gitops_iko.git **Cluster Seed** apiVersion: argoproj.io/v1alpha1 kind: Application metadata: name: gitops-iko-seed namespace: argocd labels: isAppOfApps: 'true' spec: destination: namespace: isc server: https://kubernetes.default.svc project: default source: path: argocd/app-of-apps/charts/iris-cluster-collection repoURL: https://github.com/pidtoo/gitops_iko.git targetRevision: main syncPolicy: automated: {} syncOptions: - CreateNamespace=true ### Seed the Cluster! This is the final on interacting with your Argo CD/IKO Cluster applications, **the rest is up to Git**! kubectl apply -n argocd -f argocd/app-of-apps/cluster-seeds/seed.yaml ### Merge to Main Ok, this is where we see how we did in the UI, you should immediately start seeing in Argo CD applications starting coming to life. **The apps view:**  **InterSystems Kubernetes Operator View**   > Welcome to GitOps with the InterSystems Kubernetes Operator! [Git Demos are the Best! - Live October 19, 2023](https://youtu.be/IKoadH_oOPU?feature=shared) Ron Sweeney, Principal Architect Integration Required, LLC (PID^TOO) Dan McCracken, COO, Devsoperative, INC Ohh, so useful Ron & Dan, thanks for sharing your experience and tools. Very insightful Ron, thanks. 💡 This article is considered as InterSystems Data Platform Best Practice.

Hey Community, It's time to announce the winners of the InterSystems Java Contest 2023! Thank you to all our amazing participants who submitted 13 applications 🔥 Experts Nomination 🥇 1st place and $5,000 go to the presto-iris app by @Dmitry.Maslennikov 🥈 2nd place and $3,000 go to the iris-dmn app by @Alexey.Nechaev 🥉 3rd place and $1,500 go to the iris-parquet app by @Yuri.Gomes 🏅 4th place and $750 go to the quiz-app app by @Andrii.Mishchenko 🏅 5th place and $500 go to the StarChat app by @Anna.Diak 🌟 $100 go to the JIRISReport app by @Yuri.Gomes 🌟 $100 go to the InterLang app by @Zacchaeus.Chok 🌟 $100 go to the fhir-pex app by @Flavio.Neubauer3032 🌟 $100 go to the excel-java-iris app by @Oliver.Wilms 🌟 $100 go to the native-api-command-line-java app by @Robert.Cemper1003 All the applications are interesting and deserve the accolades. So it was quite hard for each of our experts to choose only 3 out of 13. That's why (and because it's the last contest of the year and we wish to spread the holiday spirit) it was decided to award all the applications that were submitted for the contest. We hope no one minds 😉 🌟 $100 go to the java-global-editor app by @Robert.Cemper1003 🌟 $100 go to the Image AI Creator app by @Yuri.Gomes 🌟 $100 go to the iris-extlanguage-openpdf app by @Nicki.Vallentgoed Community Nomination 🥇 1st place and $1,000 go to the presto-iris app by @Dmitry.Maslennikov 🥈 2nd place and $750 go to the StarChat app by @Anna.Diak 🥉 3rd place and $500 go to the quiz-app app by @Andrii.Mishchenko 🏅 4th place and $300 go to the fhir-pex app by @Flavio.Neubauer3032 🏅 5th place and $200 go to the iris-dmn app by @Alexey.Nechaev Our sincerest congratulations to all the participants and winners! Join the fun next time ;) Congratulations to all the winners, and thanks for the recognition Congrats to all the winners and all the participants ; greatful job and outcomes Thanks community. This contest show to us how it is important IRIS with Java, not only Python with IRIS. Congratulations to all the winners and participants, particularly to @Anna.Diak and @Andrii.Mishchenko - I am so very proud of you! Congratulations to all the winners and participants! It was really exciting to participate in this competition. Thank you for the opportunity and everyone who voted. Thank you very much for your support! Congratulations! it was a great competition Congrats to all the winners!!! It was a great race! Thank you very much for your support, again! Congratulations to all the winners 🏆 👏 Congratulations to all participants! You are all winners! 🏆 Congratulations to all the participants! JAVA is alive! Congratulations to all the winners!

Hey Community! It's time to share the first-ever announcement of the Ideas Portal 2023 annual stats and the Top InterSystems Ideas Contributors for 2023 🌟 General Stats: ✓ 160 new ideas posted in 2023✓ 30 implemented ideas: ✓ 19 ideas implemented by Community members ✓ 11 ideas implemented by InterSystems✓ 364 new comments posted✓ 223 new users registered Implementer of Ideas: We present the new exciting badge Implementer of Ideas. It's a person who implemented the maximum number of ideas during 2023. Nomination: Implementer of ideas Given to developers for the maximum number of implemented ideas from the InterSystems Ideas portal. Developer Number of implemented ideas Dmitry Maslennikov 2 Yuri Marx 2 John Murray 2 Badge's name Badge's logo Winners Implementer of Ideas @Dmitry.Maslennikov @Yuri.Gomes @John.Murray Let's applaud together the developers who earned this badge in 2023 👏🏅 Most Voted Ideas: Idea Author Votes Light version InterSystems IRIS @Andre.LarsenBarbosa 56 Implement autosave for DTL and BPL pages @LuisAngel.PérezRamos 14 Make IRIS a part of Spring Cloud @wang.zhe 14 Most Commented Ideas: Idea Author Comments Binary index implementation @Akio.Hashimoto1419 14 testing dashboard for InterSystems IRIS @diba 12 Dark version of InterSystems Community @Guillaume.Rongier7183 8 Idea Leaders: Developer Number of posted ideas @Yuri.Gomes 21 @Evgeny.Shvarov 11 @LuisAngel.PérezRamos 10 Idea Commenters: Developer Number of comments @Dmitry.Maslennikov 35 @Yuri.Gomes 11 @Alex.Woodhead 8 Congratulations to the winners! 🌟 Thank you all for your contributions to InterSystems Ideas in 2023! We are sure 2024 will be rich in your brilliant ideas! 💡🤝 @Daniel.Aguilar, Thank you so much for implementing the idea Make a module which will let to use IRIS and Firebase framework!👏 Welcome to the Ideas Portal Hall of Fame!🎉 🖥 Application can be downloaded here: irisfirebase @Vadim.Aniskin Thank you so much, very proud to enter the Hall of Fame! ♥

Hi Community, Watch this video to see InterSystems IRIS in action as it is applied to real-world use cases, including business 360 and real-time analytics processing: ⏯ InterSystems IRIS Live Demos @ Global Summit 2022 Presenters: 🗣 @joe.gallant, Manager, Sales Engineering, InterSystems🗣 Wei Wen Lee, Quantitative Development Engineer, Financial Services, InterSystems Subscribe to InterSystems Developers YouTube to stay up to date!

Hi Community, My IRIS.DAT file is corrupted on one of my Edge productions in the development environment and as a result, I cannot start production. I would like to recover it if there is a way to do so, please assist. Regards, You should ask WRC, for the help if you have support If you are a supported customer (with the license under support - SUTA), please contact WRC. More details you can find at https://www.intersystems.com/support/ I haven't seen a database corruption for many years, I literally forgot the last time I saw it, it may be 15+ years or more. And in the past (last millennium) I've seen and dealt db corruption. Out of curiosity, what are the symptoms or your corruption? How did it happened? To check if a database is corrupt : Do ^INTEGRIT To repair a database : Do ^REPAIR (But if you don't know this utility or the internals of database blocks and pointers : don't use it !!!) ^INTEGRIT is the simplest way to check integrity. Run the integrity check output to a file and contact WRC, as others have said, if you have support. The most direct way to resolve database errors is to restore from a good backup and replay journals. If you can't do that, the other alternatives almost always involve loss of information. The WRC has specialists who understand database internals, and WRC always wants to investigate for the root cause of any database problems. Ephraim, When you say "corrupted" to better understand...- Did you try to mount the DB (from the SMP of with ^MOUNT)? Sometimes if IRIS/Cache was "forced" than a *.lck file on the DB folder need to be deleted in order to allow a successful mount. - If the DB is mounted, did you got a <DATABASE> (or other) error? if so, then what was said using ^Integrity and ^Repair could help - but only if you fully understand how to use those tools (!) Most of the time, a corrupted DB is fixable using those tools, or at least data can be 99% recovered. Depending on the number of errors: if its huge than sometimes it is faster to recover the DB from a valid backup + journal files. BTW - if this is a mirrored DB than there are other considerations as well. Happy new year! Thank you so much everyone, I logged a tiket with WRC and managed to resolve the issue by restoring IRIS.DAT file from another instance Regards, Ephraim Malane I'm glad to hear that you contacted WRC and got this resolved.

Hi, This is Jayanth from OAK Technologies. Hope you are all doing well!! We have a position for InterSystems IRIS Technology Role for our client if anyone is interested, please drop your resume to jayanth@oaktechinc.com Job Role: IRIS technology role Location: Chicago, Illinois (Remote Work) Contract:1+ Year W2 OR 1099 Contact Required: IRIS: inter system creative data technology FHIR- based healthcare application development Experience on IHE and any cloud Technology is Preferred. Thanks, and regards, Jayanth OAK TECHNOLOGIES, Inc. 300 E Royal Lane Ste # 130, Irving, TX -75039 C: 972-777-4034 jayanth@oaktechinc.com

InterSystems has made the decision to stop further development of the InterSystems Cloud Manager and label it as deprecated as of the InterSystems IRIS 2023.3 release. InterSystems will continue to support existing customers using the technology, but it is no longer recommended for new deployments. Customers in the cloud who are interested in deploying and managing an IRIS deployment with many systems are encouraged to consider Kubernetes and the InterSystems Kubernetes Operator, which has very similar functionality to ICM. Customers with questions on their current or planned use of ICM should reach out to their account team or contact me directly.

Hi colleages! This is very easy to setup a FHIR server in InterSystems IRIS for Health. It could be even one IPM command with this package: USER>zpm "install fhir-server" But which FHIR portal could you recommend to use? I used to work with this one, which is very easy to install too: USER>zpm "install fhir-portal" but it doesn't work at the moment and I'm not sure if its main contributors @José.Pereira and @Henrique plan to support it. What do you use? What do you recommend? Ideally installable with IPM package manager. Thanks! Hi @Evgeny.Shvarov Thanks for the notice. We need to check what's going on and fix it. PS: I just realized that I had a pending pull request from you and it's approved now Hi @Henrique ! Thanks a lot for taking a look! I really like your app and got addicted, and I hope it will work again and help me and others. @Henrique , if you could also publish a fixed version in a public IPM? That needs a release issuing in Open Exchange. Thank you!