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Tony Coffman · Feb 6, 2020
Hello Community,
Thank you all for your continued feedback and support of our ad hoc reporting platform, VDM. There's been some questions around setting up a non-ODBC connection for InterSystems platforms. We published a new YouTube video showing the steps necessary to connect to InterSystems Caché and InterSystems IRIS with BridgeWorks VDM.
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Announcement
Anastasia Dyubaylo · Apr 23, 2020
Hi Community,
We're pleased to invite you to join the “InterSystems IRIS Tech Talks”, a new series of webinars presented by InterSystems product managers.
The webinars will take deep dives into the latest features of InterSystems IRIS 2020.1 from a developer’s perspective. They’ll go beyond the high-level overviews and kick the tires on the very best and latest technologies we’ve released.
Please have a look at the list of webinars planned for May and June:
✅ API-First DevelopmentDate: May 5, 2020Time: 10:00 AM EDT
✅ Integrated Development EnvironmentsDate: May 19, 2020Time: 10:00 AM EDT
✅ DevOpsDate: June 2, 2020Time: 10:00 AM EDT
So, dear developers!
You're very welcome to join the upcoming InterSystems Tech Talks!
➡️ REGISTRATION IS ALREADY OPEN!
Hope you enjoy the new webinars!
And please find the first webinar recording on Data Science, Machine Learning & Analytics here: WATCH NOW
Stay tuned!
Announcement
Fabiano Sanches · Mar 14, 2024
The 2024.1 release of InterSystems IRIS Data Platform is now Generally Available (GA).
Release Highlights
In this release, you can expect a host of exciting updates, including:
Using vectors in ObjectScript: A powerful capability for optimizing data manipulation.
Vector Search (experimental): A cutting-edge feature for efficient data retrieval.
Multi-Volume Database: Enhancing scalability and storage management.
FastOnline Backup (experimental): Streamlining backup processes.
Multiple Super Server Ports: Providing flexibility in network configuration.
and much more!
Documentation
Details on all the highlighted features are available through these links below:
InterSystems IRIS 2024.1 documentation, release notes and deprecated & discontinued technologies and features.
In addition, check out this link for upgrade information related to this release.
Early Access Programs (EAPs)
There are many EAPs available now. Check out to this page and register to those you are interested.
How to get the software?
As usual, Extended Maintenance (EM) releases come with classic installation packages for all supported platforms, as well as container images in Docker container format. For a complete list, refer to the Supported Platforms page.
Classic installation packages
Installation packages are available from the WRC's Extended Maintenance Releases page. Additionally, kits can also be found in the Evaluation Services website. InterSystems IRIS Studio is still available in the release, and you can get it from the WRC's Components distribution page.
Containers
Container images for both Enterprise and Community Editions of InterSystems IRIS and IRIS for Health and all corresponding components are available from the InterSystems Container Registry web interface.
✅ Build number for this InterSystems IRIS data platform release is: 2024.1.0.262.0. If you're in the ICR, containers are tagged as both "2024.1" or "latest-em". For InterSystems IRIS for Health and HealthShare Health Connect, read this other post:
Extended Developer Preview. @Fabiano.Sanches this is great news! I see that there are some changes related to LOAD DATA command. Release notes describe the following sentence: "For example, you can interpret dates or timestamps supplied in a format different from the ODBC standard or clean up whitespace or other formatting issues."
I have a question about these changes. A few months ago the following idea was posted on the Ideas Portal:
Date format in LOAD DATA to indicate a date/datetime format other than 'yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss'
Could you please share has this idea been implemented in the new release? Congrats everyone! Great milestone :) Hi @Vadim.Aniskin ,
while putting together a sample of the new feature, I found out that very unfortunately this change did not make it into 2024.1.0 after all. It passed our internal testing a few months ago and was promoted through project and integration branches using our existing automation, and as such was added to the draft list of features we wanted to describe in the release notes. However, because of overlapping changes it did not get promoted into the main release branch automatically (as those earlier steps), and ended up in a manual queue. That took a little longer than expected, and I did not perform a final check before publishing the draft release notes. To my knowledge, this is the first time we had a fully-greenlit feature miss out on the automation, but that's no excuse and we've learned to do a manual check right before release.
In short, this change is now on its way to 2024.2, and the 2024.1 release notes will be updated shortly.
I'm sorry about the confusion this may have caused,benjamin Hi @Benjamin.DeBoe thank you so much for your detailed feedback. Everything is fine, no confusion, thanks for the clarification.
Announcement
Daniel Palevski · Jul 23
InterSystems is pleased to announce the General Availability (GA) of the 2025.2 release of InterSystems IRIS® data platform. This is a Continuous Delivery (CD) release. Please note that the GA versions of InterSystems IRIS for Health™ and HealthShare® Health Connect™ 2025.2 are currently withheld due to mirroring limitations introduced by security updates (details below).
Release Highlights
This release introduces impactful enhancements across security, developer experience, operations, and interoperability. Notable new features include:
1. Security Enhancements with the New IRISSECURITY Database
o Security data has been moved to the new IRISSECURITY database. This database can be encrypted.
o New role %SecurityAdministrator supports centralized administration.
o Direct access to security globals and tables is deprecated; use the provided APIs with appropriate permissions instead.
Additional info: Developer Community – IRISSECURITY Overview
2. Platform and Observability Updates
o RHEL 10 support added; RHEL 8 retired.
o SUSE support removed for this release (will return in 2025.3).
o Initial support for OpenTelemetry tracing in CSP framework (REST/SOAP), available on Linux only.
3. Improved Data Onboarding
o Enhanced Foreign Tables with support for:
Pushdown of GROUP BY, HAVING, ORDER BY, and TOP.
Expanded Push Through capabilities for exploration queries using non-IRIS syntax
o Continued alignment with InterSystems Data Fabric strategy.
4. Developer Experience
o Direct distribution of client libraries now available via:
Maven (Java), NuGet (.NET), NPM (Node.js), PyPI (Python)
5. Interoperability UX (Opt-In)
o New UI workflows for:
Creating and recovering productions
Viewing pool sizes, editing rules with better visibility, and copying paths
o Improved DTL editing, filtering, and search
o Browser-wide search now supported
o This opt-in UI continues to evolve based on feedback from 2025.1.
Please share your feedback for these enhancements on the Developer Community so we can build a better product together.
Notes on IRIS for Health and Health Connect 2025.2
Due to required changes introduced by the Security DB in IRIS 2025.2, the 2025.2 versions of IRIS for Health and Health Connect are not publicly released as of today’s July 23 GA date.
Development previews are available but not intended for production use. These have been posted to the WRC developer preview site. Containers can be found on our container registry and are tagged latest-preview.
Documentation
Details on all the highlighted features are available through these links below:
· InterSystems IRIS 2025.2 documentation, release notes.
In addition, check out the upgrade impact checklist for an easily navigable overview of all changes you need to be aware of when upgrading to this release.
Early Access Programs (EAPs)
There are many EAPs available now. Check out this page and register to those who are interested.
How to get the software?
As usual, Continuous Delivery (CD) releases come with classic installation packages for all supported platforms, as well as container images in Docker container format.
Classic installation packages
Installation packages are available from the WRC's InterSystems IRIS page for InterSystems IRIS. Additionally, kits can also be found in the Evaluation Services website.
Availability and Package Information
This release comes with classic installation packages for all supported platforms, as well as container images in Docker container format. For a complete list, refer to the Supported Platforms document.
The build number for this Continuous Delivery release is: 2025.2.0.227.0.
This release comes with container images in Docker container format, available from the InterSystems Container Registry. IRIS containers are tagged as both "2025.2" and "latest-cd".
©2024 InterSystems Corporation. All Rights Reserved.
Question
Saptarshi Sengupta · Jan 24, 2020
Intersystems use JReport as their reporting framework.
Are there any free version available for developers to try it out? If yes, can I avail the link?
Is there any free trial version for 'DeepSee'? if yes, can I avail the link?
Thanks in advance for your feedback. Logi JReport are currently available for operational reporting as part of InterSystems TrakCare. InterSystems IRIS Business Intelligence (aka "DeepSee") is available for all InterSystems products for data modeling, exploration and dashboarding. Evgeny pointed you to all the download information needed for that. JReport and InterSystems IRIS BI are complimentary as they provide different capabilities.
I am interested in hearing more about your operational reporting requirements. Download as by PRODUCTS / Download IRIS .Never heard of J-Report before. IRIS Analytics. (DeepSee) is included even in IRIS Community Version by default so you are welcome to try.
3 easiest ways to try:
1. download IRIS Community version as @Robert.Cemper1003 mentioned.
2. Launch Try IRIS instance
3. Docker pull the image
4. Run an instance of IRIS on a cloud you like: Azure, AWS, GCP.
You have IRIS Analytics with Community Edition but you probably want to try something working.
Samples BI is not included but could be installed.
The easiest way to install is to use ZPM.
Or even to launch a docker image with ZPM on board and install Samples-BI with one command.
Also, I can recommend trying AnalyzeThis by @Peter.Steiwer - it's a nice tool to generate a cube+pivot+dashboard vs arbitrary csv file.
HTH
Hi,
If you want to try J-Report, here is a link for the trial version:
https://www.jinfonet.com/product/download-jreport/For an OpenSource alternative, you can take a look at Jasper Reports Community Edition
https://community.jaspersoft.com/
I used to work with Jasper Reports to generate PDF reports for my customers. To connect to InterSystems IRIS, use the ODBC and voilá.
As mentioned by @Carmen.Logue , if you tell us your reporting requirements, that should be easier to discuss alternatives. Thank you very much. Yes JReport trial version does not help much as it is only last 14 days.
Regarding Jasper Report, did you install 'Jaspersoft Studio'? I want to work on JReport Designer,which uses JDBC... I mainly want to master JReport Designer, so I can develop/design report. Therefore, do you think, Jasper Studio would provide me similar environment? Any lead would be appreciated. Thanks. @the.alchemist
If you want to develop/design reports. Jasper Studios is what you looking for.
Free and simple Hi Henrique,
Does jasper reports run one time or is it real time.
What I intend to have is a real time report embedded in the zen page. not a pdf. i mean a downloaded pdf may be a plus, but not the endpoint
Any thoughts? Hi,
Jasper Reports will work just like Crystal Reports. It will generate PDF reports on demand.
But, you can take a look here: https://www.jaspersoft.com/downloadMaybe what you need it's more than the Jasper Studio. We (#Roche) will also be very interested in having JReport integrated with IRIS in order to generate pdf files given specific data (i.e.: a screen table, a patient test)
Article
Evgeny Shvarov · Jul 28, 2019
Hi Developers!
Recently I was asked, “How can a beginner in InterSystems technologies learn from InterSystems Developers community content to improve his developer skills”?
This is a really good question. It has several answers so I decided to write the post with the hope it could be useful for developers.
So! How to learn Intersystems Data Platforms(IRIS, IRIS for Health) from InterSystems Developers community content if you are a beginner?
Beginner and Tutorial tags
First, it worth to check articles with Beginner tag and Tutorial tags.
Developers who write articles put these tags if they describe the basics or are the tutorials for some InterSystems IRIS features.
InterSystems Best Practices
Next, if you are looking for some serious stuff check the Best Practices tag. Every week InterSystems product management selects a new article and put Best Practices tag on it. So if you subscribe it you have a new InterSystems best practice every week.
Views and Votes
Another way to find helpful posts is to pay attention to what developers on community vote for and what developers read most. Indeed, if a developer finds the article helpful he votes up so we can consider that articles with the most of votes are the most useful. This is the filter of the most voted articles.
Also, the articles with most of the views could be considered useful too, cause not all the developers vote (and voting need the registration) but we count all the reads. So the articles with most of the views maybe not only are the most popular but also are useful.
And often the questions which have accepted answers could be very useful cause it is a solved problem. Same as with articles you can filter questions with accepted answers by votes and by views and hopefully find your answers but definitely is a helpful read.
Ask your questions!
And of course, the best way to learn and get the experience in technology is to practice with it, run into the problems and solve it. So, you’ll have questions during the process and don’t hesitate to ask your questions on InterSystems Developers - sometimes you’ll get the answers even before you end typing the question!
Resources for InterSystems Beginners
And of course, it worth to mention the general resources for developers-beginners in InterSystems data platforms. They are Documentation, Online Learning, Try InterSystems IRIS sandbox, classroom learning, InterSystems Developers Videos.
Developers, you are very welcome to submit other ways and advice on how to learn InterSystems Technology on Developer Community in the comments below. In addition to the learning opportunities for beginners listed above here are two programs on the Online Learning platform:
Getting started with ObjectScript and Getting Started with Interoperability. Yes, and there is more information about the two programs in this post: Get Started with InterSystems IRIS. The programs include videos, courses, learning paths, and other content -- and are great for onboarding!
Getting Started with InterSystems IRIS for Coders
Getting Started with InterSystems IRIS for Implementers
Announcement
Andreas Dieckow · Oct 10, 2019
InterSystems is pleased to announce a new Developer Download site providing full kit versions of InterSystems IRIS Community Edition and InterSystems IRIS for Health Community Edition. These are available free of charge for application development use.
You can download directly from the InterSystems Developer Community by selecting Download InterSystems IRIS.
Those instances include a free built-in 13-month license. They are limited to 10GB of user data, will run on machines up to 8 cores, support 5 concurrent connections and are supported for application development. Available Platforms: RedHat, Ubuntu, SUSE, Windows and macOS.
InterSystems IRIS and InterSystems IRIS for Health are also available in container format from the Docker Hub.
Please check here for information on how to get started, visit the InterSystems IRIS Data Platform page and the InterSystems IRIS for Health page on our website to learn more about our products, and visit the Developer resource page to get deeper with development.
If you previously registered for an InterSystems Login account (e.g. for the Developer Community or WRC Direct), you can use those credentials to gain access to the Developer Download.
Why is there no Container option? Hi Angelo!
This is a very good question. But there are community versions in containers on docker:
image name are for InterSystems IRIS:
store/intersystems/iris-community:2019.3.0.309.0
and for InterSystems IRIS for Health:
store/intersystems/irishealth:2019.3.0.308.0-community
Check this template app to start using this immediately. Hi Evgeny,
thanks for informations, even though I already knew that, but there should be everything produced on the download site.
I second having the conatiners available in the same place.
Also could you show the version number available before downloading and are these production releases or previews? David,
Thanks for your feedback!
In general, Developer Download always makes available the latest GA version of our two Community Edition products. In this case we wanted to be able to launch by Global Summit and so we went with the Preview since 2019.1.1 kits were not full GA yet. There are ongoing discussions about the pros/cons of making containers available here rather than people just fetching them directly from Docker. We'll let you know the final decision! We will post container kits here as well. Those are released versions and not previews, that can be used for Development, but not for deployments. Thanks for the clarification.
The fact that the current download is slightly different from the norm due to a Global Summit launch does highlight the need for a brief explanation of the version you are downloading though. David - I completely agree. It's an excellent suggestion and we'll get it put in place. Hi David, thanks for this suggestion. File names that include full version strings are now visible prior to download. Thanks for adding that, in the case of a preview it might be worth adding this to the "Notes" section to save cross referencing with release notifications or the usual downloads page. I was just able to install IRIS on an Apple MacBook Pro, with Parallels and Windows 10 Pro. I installed the current FOIA VistA with about 8.2 GB of data. Everything worked good until getting to the Taskman and RPC Broker startup. This has always been an issue with the developer version from Intersystems. It's almost enough users to bring up Taskman. Not nearly enough to bring up Taskman and the RPC Broker.
It's great to have IRIS Studio. Everything seems just like Cache with a new name. Thanks Intersystems. David - FYI, the full Release Version of 2019.1.1 Community Editions is now available at Download.InterSystems.com I just installed the IRIS for Windows (x86-64) 2021.1 (Build 215U) Wed Jun 9 2021 12:15:53 EDT [Health:3.3.0] ... and the license key expires 10/30/2021. Where can I get a new license, or newer version? I read where it should be for 13 months. I could barely get started in 40 days...
ExpirationDate=10/30/2021
Question
Kranthi kumar Merugu · Nov 6, 2020
Hi Team,
What is the difference between Intersystems Cache DB and Intersystems IRIS ? I am looking for Cache DB installation details, but getting IRIS only everywhere. we are looking for a POC to test it.
Thanks,
Kranthi. The scope and the dimension of possibilities are much wider with IRIS than it was with Caché.Very generally speaking: There is nothing in Caché that you can't do with IRIS.The only thing you might miss eventually, are some ancient compatibility hooks back to the previous millennium. Also, support of some outdated operating system versions is gone In addition to what @Robert.Cemper1003 said InterSystems IRIS is much faster than Caché in SQL, it has officially released Docker images, it has IRIS Interoperability and IRIS BI is included and it has Community Edition which gives you the way to develop and evaluate your solution on IRIS which is less than 10GB without ordering a license.
And IRIS has a Package Manager ZPM which gives you a universal and robust way to deploy your solutions.
I would also add better JSON support with %JSON.Adapter (the lack of which currently causes a lot of struggle for us on the older version) Hi Kranthi,
I believe that you are just finding information about IRIS because it is something that is "in fashion". Part of Summit was about this, if you look at the developer community, basically just talk about it. In a way, we are almost unconsciously induced to migrate to IRIS. It is a fact that they have differences as friends have already commented, however, in general, it is more of the same. For differences between InterSystems CACHE and InterSystems IRIS Data Platform I suggest you have a look here.
Specifically you can find there a table comparing the products (including InterSystems Ensemble).
As well as a document going into detail about various new features and capabilities
If you want to perform a PoC for a new system definitely use InterSystems IRIS.
At a high level you can find the feature differences between Cache, Ensemble and IRIS here:
https://www.intersystems.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/InterSystems_IRIS_Data_Platform_Comparison_chart.pdf
Question
Kevin Johnson · Sep 10, 2020
Hello there Community,
I am so pumped and curious about this platform.
The more I search about it, the more deeper it goes just as the maze.
I followed the following link https://community.intersystems.com/post/global-masters-advocate-hub-start-here and it took me to a page where i learnt more on what Global Masters is and also more about the Advocate Hub.
But then I came across an very confusing this named as the Global Masters Gamification Platform.
I was denied permission when i tried to access it. (Screen Shot has been attached.)
Well, my question is, are both the Global Masters and Global Masters Gamification Platform the same or are they two different platforms ?
If they are different I would like to know on how to gain access to it as well.
Hoping to hear soon from you all.
Regards. @Olga.Zavrazhnova2637 , it looks like we have a bad link at https://community.intersystems.com/post/global-masters-advocate-hub-start-here (leading to the certificate error shown).
@Kevin.Johnson3273 see https://intersystems.influitive.com/users/sign_in instead of the link in that article Hi Kevin, thank you for your question. Global Masters and Global Masters Gamification Platform are the same. @Timothy.Leavitt thank you! The link was broken indeed - already fixed it 👌 Good day to all! Hello @Kevin Johnson,
Answering to your question,
Yes, You are correct. Both are the same and has no difference. The only difference is that the way they have named it.
Both are the same.
#Good Day.
Announcement
Anastasia Dyubaylo · Sep 29, 2023
Hey Developers,
Enjoy watching the new video on InterSystems Developers YouTube:
⏯ InterSystems Cloud Services - InterSystems IRIS SQL & IntegratedML @ Global Summit 2023
InterSystems is rolling out cloud services and the first of these includes InterSystems IRIS Cloud SQL and InterSystems IRIS Cloud IntegratedML. You'll learn what services are now available and what creative developers have done with them.
Presenters:🗣 @Bhavya.Kandimalla, Sales Engineer, InterSystems🗣 @Mengqi.Li, Sales Engineer, InterSystems
Enjoy this video and stay tuned for more! 👍
Announcement
Bob Kuszewski · Jul 31, 2024
The 2024.2 releases of InterSystems IRIS Data Platform, InterSystems IRIS for Health, and HealthShare Health Connect are now Generally Available (GA).
RELEASE HIGHLIGHTS
2024.2 is a Continuous Delivery (CD) release. Many updates and enhancements have been added in this release:
Enhancing Developer Experience
Studio removal - 2024.2 Windows installations do not include the Studio IDE, and upgrading an existing instance removes Studio from the instance’s bin directory. Developers who wish to keep using Studio should download the 2024.1 Studio independent component from the WRC component distribution page.
Foreign Tables are now fully supported - With the 2024.2 release, we have addressed feedback from early access users, including better metadata management, improved predicate pushdown and further alignment with the LOAD DATA command that ingests rather than projects external data into IRIS SQL tables.
Flexible Python Runtime for Microsoft Windows - Customers running Microsoft Windows are now able to select the Python runtime used for Embedded Python.
Enhancing AI & Analytics
InterSystems IRIS BI - Added standard KPI plugins to calculate standard deviation and variance based on measures from fact tables as well as better integration with the PowerBI connector privileges so that the PowerBI user has access to all cubes that are not restricted by a resource or are public cubes
InterSystems Reports - New version of Logi Report 2024.1 SP2 including enhancements to PDF exports. For additional details, see the Logi Report release notes.
Enhancing Interoperability and FHIR
NEW HL7 DTL Generator: A new addition to the Productivity Toolkit intended to help users reduce time-to-value when a) migrating from other vendors OR b) building new DTLs. Based on source and target message pairs, the DTL Generator creates a skeleton DTL with simple transformation logic for the interface engineer to validate and review for any missing more complex logic required.
X12 / CMS0057 Support: In anticipation of the upcoming CMS0057 Prior Authorization requirements, support for additional schema packages include HIPAA 4010, HIPAA 5010, and HIPAA 6020.
Additionally, now included is support for X12 long segments.
New FHIR Configuration REST API (Control Plane): Configuration for multi-namespace FHIR Servers is made easier with a single REST Handler to support each entire instance. A new control plane endpoint (BaseURL: /csp/fhir-management/api) is available offering enhanced security allowing only namespace authorized users access to the control plane REST API.
Enhanced IRIS OAuth Server Customization: Customizing IRIS for Health OAuth is now simplier with an out-of-the-box supported and documented framework with an IRIS OAuth server customization logic embedded in an IRIS for Health setting. Default values for "Customization Options" are populated when selecting the appropriate OAuth class hook.
Improved UI for FHIR Server Configuration & Bulk FHIR Configuration:
The improved FHIR Server Configuration Dashboard enhances the user's experience by taking advantage of updated back-end APIs for configuring a FHIR server.
The improved Bulk FHIR Coordinator enhances the user's experience by creating an intuitive workflow when configuring Bulk FHIR servers.
Platform Updates
IRIS 2024.2 now supports Ubuntu 24.04, to go along with support for Ubuntu 22.04.
Containers are now based on Ubuntu 24.04.
DOCUMENTATION
Details on all the highlighted features are available through these links below:
InterSystems IRIS 2024.2 documentation, release notes and deprecated & discontinued technologies and features.
InterSystems IRIS for Health 2024.2 documentation, release notes and deprecated & discontinued technologies and features.
Here’s the always-handy InterSystems IRIS upgrade checklist for 2024.2.
HOW TO GET THE SOFTWARE
As usual, Continuous Delivery (CD) releases come with classic installation packages for all supported platforms, as well as container images in Docker container format. For a complete list, refer to the Supported Platforms page.
Classic installation packages
Installation packages are available from the WRC's Continuous Delivery Releases page. Additionally, kits can also be found in the Evaluation Services website. InterSystems IRIS Studio is still available in the release, and you can get it from the WRC's Components distribution page.
Containers
Container images for both Enterprise and Community Editions of InterSystems IRIS and IRIS for Health and all corresponding components are available from the InterSystems Container Registry web interface.
✅ Build number for this release is: 2024.2.0.247.0, except for the OpenSSL 1.0 AIX kits which are 2024.2.0.247.1. If you're in the ICR, containers are tagged as "latest-cd".
> For additional details, see the Logi Report release notes.
This link "https://docs-report.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/24548641487373-Report-v24-1-Release-Notes#SP2" looks wrong. If possible, could you share the correct URL for us, please? thank you for making us aware. I have escalated this internally and I hope it can be corrected quickly. My apologies. The correct URL is https://community.intersystems.com/post/intersystems-reports-version-241-release-announcement
Windows users who need to use IPM/ZPM to install packages that pull in Python packages may want to hold back from adoption of 2024.2 until https://github.com/intersystems/ipm/issues/540 gets closed and an updated IPM ships.
Announcement
Developer Community Admin · Dec 2, 2015
InterSystems Atelier Field Test is now available.Supported customers who have credentials to access the WRC can find the client download here:https://wrc.intersystems.com/wrc/BetaPortalCloud2.csp Thank you for your work! Atelier field test is really cool.
Just two questions:
- Is there any chance to extend 15 days period of test? It would be great (I can't test it full time).
- Can we access to Atelier Ensemble Test server with Studio? I've tried, but I couldn't. It would be very helpful to compare working with Atelier and Studio at the same time with the same code.
Kind regards!
Since you work on the client with Atelier, and only use the server for deployment/compilation/debugging, it does not matter if you need to restart the server every two days, and it allows bug fixes to be deployed automatically. If you export to XML from Atelier and use source control on a system using Studio, then you should see the code automically refresh in Studio when you open the file.
The test is not limited to two weeks. That was simply the expiration on the license. We updated the beta facility with a new version and a more generous license. Happy coding!
I can confirm that it doesn't matter when my cloud instance goes away, I just go back to the portal and deploy the new version and bugs that I found over the last few weeks are usually simply fixed.
Is there a way to force my "instance" to expire/update without waiting the two weeks?
What's the right support channel to use for the cloud-based Atelier FT server? I log in at https://wrc.intersystems.com/wrc/BetaPortalCloud.csp and click the "Launch Server" button. The button disappears immediately and is replaced by text saying "Your Atelier Server has been launched,
it will run for the next (expired)." and when I click on the xxx-.isc.appsembler.com/csp/sys/UtilHome.csp URL I am offered I get a page reading "
No Application Configured
This domain is not associated with an application.
"
John -
The WRC is handling any calls with regard to the beta cloud portal. I saw this and reached out to the cloud provider as the issue is coming from their side. I will let you know as soon as I hear back.
Hi Bill,When will the official release be out? Have been waiting since the 2015 after our 2014 conference when we heard it would by done by end of 2015? Really exited not to work on Windows anymore and also not using studio in remote connections as it chews bandwidth and tends to be really slow. Please read the announcement here: https://community.intersystems.com/post/announcement-about-cach%C3%A9-20162-and-20163-field-test-programs We have been holding updates of Atelier to finish refactoring to conform to the changes outlined there. Kits are being published for 16.2 today and a new Atelier kit will be available in "Check for Updates" today or tomorrow. Any progress on this yet? My 1.0.90 Atelier's "Check for Updates" still tells me it finds none. I've already updated my 2016.2 FT instance to the latest you've published (build 721), so I expect my Atelier won't play well with that until it gets updated too. A new kit will be posted this week, probably today. Updated just now and received build 232. Thanks.
Announcement
Evgeny Shvarov · Mar 7, 2017
Hi!
Recently GitHub introduced topics for the projects.
So you can change your InterSystems related projects introducing the topics to let it be categorized, more visible and searchable. Here is the list of good examples for your projects (some of them are clickable already):
intersystems, intersystems-cache, intersystems-ensemble, intersystems-healthshare, healthshare, intersystems-iknow, iknow, intersystems-deepsee, deepsee, cache-objectscript, csp, intersystems-zen, zen.
If you have any good ideas for topics or already using something, please introduce it here in the comments?
Better with a working link.
Thank you in advance!
It's called topics. Tag is a git pointer to a commit (usually to mark release point). Thanks Eduard! Fixed and changed ) If you are looking for the projects with Caché ObjectScript with sources in UDL you can find it with cacheobjectscript-udl topic on Github. And if you have some open projects on Github with sources in UDL please mark it with cacheobjectscript-udl topic? Thank you in advance!
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Ponnumani Gurusamy · Sep 20, 2016
How to retrive the unstructure data using iknow concept in Cache . Given real time Example of these concepts? Here are some articles on community about that:Free Text Search by Kyle BaxteriKnow demo apps (1, 2, 3, 4) by Benjamin DeBoe I want to take a moment here and advise you to be very careful with iKnow. iKnow is NOT a solution, it is a way for you to develop your own solutions (much like Caché and Ensemble, actually). While iKnow can give structure to your free text fields, it cannot tell you what to do with that information once you gather it. So before implementing iKnow and developing a solution, you need to know what it is you want to look for, the purpose of putting the iKnow structure on your data, and what you are going to display or show off once you get it.
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li yu · Jul 22, 2016
As Title! For a simplified version, see NewBie's Corner Session 1 Bob, I fully agree with you about the more complete installation guide. However, for someone who is new, and does not understand the terms used, and just wants to see what Caché is all about on their own PC, I feel the more compact install guide may be a better fit. And if they have trouble or questions, they can always consult the more complete guide. I just wanted to add some additional details re the $ set file/attrib command mentioned above for OpenVMS kits to clarify which command is the appropriate one to use and when.In order to make the file sizes of the OpenVMS Caché kits smaller to save on storage space and speedup transfer times, from Caché version 2015.2.0 upwards we use the OpenVMS backup qualifier "/DATA_FORMAT=COMPRESS" which can make the kits around 50% smaller in size.So for Caché versions prior to 2015.2.0 to set the correct file attributes use:$ set file/attrib=(rfm:fix,lrl=32256)and for versions of Caché from 2015.2.0 upwards use:$ set file/attrib=(rfm:var,mrs:32256,lrl=32256,rat=none) thank you, Eric. i should have been more specific about the new file attribute command. internally we tend to focus on the most recent releases, i will remember next time that there are plenty of sites using older kits. i agree, Mike, i wouldn't discourage anyone from just trying it out. but even the simplest installation of Caché presents choices that have lots of significant implications, for example 8-bit vs. unicode and security settings. it doesn't add a lot of overhead to have the documentation open so you can read along with the procedure as you execute it, and at the least it may save you the trouble of having to uninstall and start over again. Please provide link for cache-2016.1.0.656.0-win_x86.exe Adam,you can download it directly from your WRC account. Here's the documentation detailing the process.Or do you have more specific questions? The Documentation that Eduard provided has all of the details for installing cache, but the simple answer, for someone looking for a quick tip is here:We provide distribution packages available on our distribution page:https://wrc.intersystems.com/wrc/Distribution.cspLogin in with your wrc direct account and download the package that is the correct version you want, and that is correct for your operating system. The packages are named such that their version on os should be clear.Windows: The package will be an executable like so:cache-2016.1.0.656.0-win_x64.exeDownload this to a location on your system that is not in the pathway where you want to install. Double click and it will start the installation wizard. From there is will prompt with questions you answer about how you want to install cache. If you are not sure of some of those answers the document that Edward pointed out will have lots of answers. When the installation is complete there will be a blue cube on the dashboard from which you can access cache.Unix and Mac: The package will be a zipped tar file like so:cache-2016.1.0.656.0-ppc64.tar.gzDownload and place in a pathway where you are not installing cache. Unzip this with:#gunzip cache-2016.1.0.656.0-ppc64.tar.gzthen untar it like so:#tar -xvf cache-2016.1.0.656.0-ppc64.tarWhen done it will expand several files that are part of the distribution. Start the installation script like so:#./cinstallIt will prompt you with answers to questions about the install. If you have questions about this you can refer to the documentation that Edward posted. When done it will tell you the url to use to access the instance with the system management portal. You can use csession <instance name> to get into cache.vms: This is similar in install to unix, but opening the kit up is a bit different. The package will be a bck file like so:cache-2016.1.0.657.0-alphavms.bckSet the attributes of the file correctly so that it can be opened:$ SET FILE/ATTRIB=(RFM:FIX,LRL=32256) cache-2016.1.0.657.0-alphavms.bckexpand the bck file like so:backup cache-2016.1.0.657.0-alphavms.bck/save DISK:[dir...]Note, you will have to put the appropriate disk and directory designation. The ... following the directory name is necessary so that it properly expands the directories. You will have to get into the directories that it creates to get to the cinstall executable. There type @cinstall in order to start the installation. Again it will prompt for answers just like with unix.Hope this helps. While this overview is accurate and helpful, I strongly recommend consulting the Caché Installation Guide before beginning the installation process, and having it at hand while installing.
There are a number of things to consider for each platform (Windows, OpenVMS, UNIX®/Linux, and Mac) before you install; the install guide covers general preparation in the chapter for each platform, and also includes appendixes on system parameters for OpenVMS and UNIX®/Linux, preparing for Caché security, and file system and storage recommendations. (There is also a chapter on upgrading Caché.)
There are also a lot of options to choose among during the installation process and it useful to have the explanations available when deciding.
Finally, the install guide offers alternatives to interactive installation, including unattended installation on Windows and on UNIX®/Linux systems and the use of the %Installer class with an installation manifest.
OpenVMS note: the SET FILE/ATTRIB command cited by Richard, which may be necessary to restore to the install package attributes that were stripped when it was conveyed to the target system, was recently updated, as follows:
$ SET file/attrib=(rfm:var,mrs:32256,lrl=32256,rat=none) cache-2016.1.0.657.0-alphavms.bck
Hi Eric,
I hope you’re well and that you may not remember me from Systime field engineering 1980-1986 then ICM until 2007. You worked with Neil Turner & Brian Lindley I recall.
Could you drop me a line at meakin2003 at gmail.com or call me on 07802 491155 to discus some OVMS support work we’re about to undertake? It involves my working with Chris Walker whom you may recall adapted the Vax780 to address 4Mb before DEC released the 785? We need more guys like him and you right now.
Many thanks
Colin.