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Just curious how many companies use in their work Docker containers, I mean not only with InterSystems products. And if such companies exist, which of them uses docker and doesn't use it for InterSystems products by some reasons. What are the reasons? For companies which already uses InterSystems in containers, how do you use it? Development environment, testing or even in production ?And if you don't use but thought about it, what are the reasons which stop you.As for me, I've been using InterSystems Caché inside a Docker container in some different cases:To test new FieldTest version, without installation. Just to build and run, quite easy.In development, for open source projects, or in my current company. I have not used it in production, our project are not ready for production yet. But I'm already using docker for testing and building our application with Gitlab-ci. Mostly disagree with your opinion. Docker is a good way for microservices, and docker it is not just one container, in most cases, you should use a bunch of them, each as a different service. And in this case, good way to control all this service is docker-compose. You can split your application into some different parts, database, frontend, and some other services.And I don't see any problems, in such way, when InterSystems inside one container, with application's database. And the power of docker is you can run multiple copies of the container, at once, when it will be needed. I see only one problem here, is separated global buffer, it means that it used not efficiently. Can you give an example different way with the different database server? I've tried some of the databases, in a container, and they work in the same way.Each container with InterSystems inside, and one our service inside. And I don't see any troubles here, even in security. Your way it is a bad way, it is like add a new layer with docker, like container (Application) inside another container (Caché), too complicated. Docker is cool way to deploy and use versioned application, but, IMVHO, it's only applicable for the case when you have single executable or single script, which sets up environment and invoke you for some particular functionality. Like run particular version of compiler for build scenario. Or run continious integration scenario. Or run web front-end environment.1 function - 1 container with 1 interactive executable is easy to convert to Docker. But not Cache, which is inherently multi-process. Luca has done a great thing in his https://hub.docker.com/r/zrml/intersystems-cachedb/ Docker container where he has wrappee whole environment (including control daemon, write daemon, journal daemon, etc) in 1 handy Docker container whith single entry point implemnted in Go as ccontainrmain but this is , hmm, ... not very effecient way to use Docker.Containers is all about density of CPU/disk resources, and all the beauty of Docker is based upon the simplicity to run multiple user at the single host. Given this way of packing Cache' configuration to the single container (each user run whole set of Cache' control processes) you will get the worst scalability.It would be much, much bettrer, if there would be 2 kinds of Cache' docker containers (ran via Swarm for example) where ther would be single control container, and multiple users containers (each connecting to their separate port and separate namespace). But, today, with current security implementation, there would be big, big problem - each user would be seeing whole configuration, which is kind of unexpected in the case of docker container hosting. Once, these security issues could be resolved there would be effeciet way to host Cache' under docker, but not before.

Can InterSystems IRIS support horizontal expansion? How many nodes can it support？ Pls check below，Thx！ https://community.intersystems.com/post/horizontal-scalability-intersystems-iris https://docs.intersystems.com/irislatest/csp/docbook/Doc.View.cls?KEY=PAGE_scalability

Hi Developers! Now it's time for all Japanese speaking users of our community! We're pleased to announce the official start of the Japanese InterSystems Developer Community! And let me introduce you @Minoru.Horita and @Toshihiko.Minamoto from InterSystems Japan as managers of the InterSystems Developer Community in Japanese! Here are the main points you need to know: ➡️ You can switch between sites using language buttons in the top right corner: If you know Japanese, it's great that you can contribute articles, make discussions, ask and answer questions about InterSystems Data Platforms now in Japanese too! Also! ➡️ You can use JP Language Switcher – the option to switch to the Japanese version of the article. Also! ➡️ If you posted an article in English it could be translated by anyone in Japanese and will be helpful for even more people! Everyone is able now to add a translation to an article on the Developer Community. If you want to add a translation, request author's permission on the articles page in a Translation tab or if you already have a translation of the post, just provide the URL there: If the author grants the request, you are able to publish the translation with your name on the Japanese Community site. If you are an author, you'll receive an email notification of a request from a particular DC member. It's your decision whether to grant it. If you want to translate your own article, request permission from yourself and grant it. ➡️ The same thing works for the Japanese Community site – you can translate the Japanese article in English. Be sure, you know both languages well! So! Don't hesitate to provide your feedback on how to make the Japanese InterSystems Community better! Welcome to the Japanese InterSystems Developer Community! 🚀 And stay tuned! ようこそ and good luck ようこそ @Minoru.Horita @Toshihiko.Minamoto 頑張って Warmest welcome! Thank you for your support!がんばります！ みなさん、ありがとう！ We're very excited to be part of this global community. Look forward to talking to you in the Japanese Community ! Hey Developers! InterSystems Developer Community operates for developers on InterSystems in English, Spanish and Japanese now. What other languages would you like to read our community in? ➡️ Please share your opinion in the comments to this post or submit a task and vote for it! Stay tuned! All the best!

Hi All, I hope all are good. I would like to know that whether InterSystems will support LDAPS or not. I have idea about LDAP but not about LDAPS. Please suggest me If anyone has any documents or links. Thanks and Regards, Gunwant Hello Gunwant, How are you intending to use LDAP? Using LDAP This documentation covers that you can configure LDAP to use TLS for Caché authentication.

Hi Community!We are introducing a new feature on DC site - Best Practices of InterSystems Data Platforms.It is the tag, which highlights articles on DC considered as Best Practices on how to develop, test, deploy and manage solutions on InterSystems Data Platforms. Why do we do this?You often asked us(InterSystems) what is the attitude to different posts on DC? How to distinguish posts with InterSystems message for developers from "just thoughts"? Actually, you can subscribe to Product Managers and Technology architects directly, but we must admit that there are a lot of articles from Community members which have tons of experience, bright solutions, and knowledge and which are in fact the Best Practices for InterSystems Data Platforms. And we want to highlight this content.Who makes the decision? We established a council of InterSystems Product Managers and Technology Architects who review articles and decide on whether it is considered as InterSystems Best Practice.What posts will be reviewed?All articles and some questions on DC which have best practices answers.How often will we see new Best Practices on DC?Every week we'll tag a new Best Practices article. You can get the notification about it if you subscribe to Best Practice tag page. Also we'll put a comment to the post from DC administration that it is selected as Best Practices.When will we start?We already started. Subscribe to the tag and stay tuned!And we are waiting for your InterSystems Best Practices article! Consider adding @Sascha.Kisser article on [DeepSee troubleshooting](https://community.intersystems.com/post/deepsee-troubleshooting-guide) Great point, Alexander! It's in a queue. Hi Evgeny，this looks great，could we also hv one in CN DC？Thx! Michael @Evgeny.Shvarov Hi... I'm not a programmer, I work with QA. And I see development-related issues everyday as basic functionality bugs and also related to specification, spelling and so on. In a way, could I write something along these lines? Of care we should have when developing? Hi Andre! Yes, sure, give it a try Thanks @Evgeny.Shvarov. I will try it. And thanks for the opportunity. Hello again Evgeny Shvarov. It's done. Where can I put a preview of my article so you, or someone else, could read it before I get embarrassed. Feel free to create a draft here and send the link to @Evgeny.Shvarov. Hi everyone... My name is André Larsen Barbosa, known “popularly” as Larsen. Unlike most community members, I'm not a programmer, and in fact, I don't like programming at all. Yes, there are other areas in IT besides these. Come on, I believe all of you developers do testing after development, right? Or are they so confident that they believe they can't make mistakes? Or, do they wait for the problem to appear in the user? Then just launch an update and fix or undo this mistake. So, that's exactly where we work with quality (well, everyone should work with quality), but I'm referring to a specific area, which is QA, or Quality Assurance. When I talk about this, at the same time, I know that there are many companies that already work in this way, with very specific departments and with a somewhat rigid process. However, we also know that many are self-employed, independent programmers, who perhaps, and only perhaps, have not had or do not have this opportunity, which I tell you, is unique. No, I don't want to convert anyone, but I'm sure if you've read this far, you'll think about it. What is quality software? Only software that doesn't give an error when opening it? Is it fast software? Cheap? Simple? Who meets what has been proposed? Which meets the customer's needs? Well, we have a lot of possibilities, but, I tell you all, when we talk about customers, they certainly expect all these questions to be answered by the software you've developed. And I go further, it's not just the code used, if it's clear, if it has comments, if it follows some rules and basic concepts. This is just part of the process, which crosses some boundaries and affects many areas. Process, there is a very important word for the “acquisition” of quality in a project. So, how to achieve the expected result if we don't get a satisfactory interview with the client? Therefore, we will not know exactly what to build. How can we do something with quality if we don't participate in the negotiation of deadlines? Thus, it is true to say that quality must be involved throughout the entire process. I'm not saying that it's a rule and that if it doesn't, it won't work, but it will positively influence this participation. With one more interesting point mentioned, which in fact is software (and here I open to any and all work that can be done, whether it is software, building a house, a cake recipe, anyway, anything, once that Quality, or the concept of quality is universal) of quality? It is very subjective to speak, but, thinking of a way to translate this, we would have something like: “The totality of characteristics of a product or service that can satisfy a certain need of a certain customer. And it is achieved through the permanent search for better results based on the best performance of each of the elements of a process, always oriented towards the customer, meeting their needs and above all exceeding their expectations.” What motivated me to do this article (if I can afford to call it that)? You would be surprised by the absurdities we see. It's about losing sleep. Hi Andre I have read your article and I think that it is worthy of being included in this thread as you speak many truths. I am sure that many people work with technology, from the Customer Project Managers, the Business Analysts, the Team Leaders, the Scrum Master, the Senior Developers, Junior Developers, Testers, Customer UAT testers, and ultimately the Users of the resultant Technology Solution who view their role in the chain with Blinkers and work on the basis that as long as they do their job properly (and that is a word that can mean many different things) and are either unconcerned about the people who fill the other roles in the chain or view them as a necessary evil. But I also believe that there are technologists who are very conscious of the fact that they are an important element in the overall delivery of a solution. It is very rare to find people who can wear the hat of all of the players in this chain. I have met maybe 3 people in my entire career who just stood head and shoulders above everyone else in their ability to communicate and understand the needs and requirements of the customer, translate those requirements into a set of tasks for the Business Analysts to prioritize, document, create the project scope and timeline, write requirement specifications that can be understood by the customer and the development team, be able to sit with the senior developers and discuss the possible approaches to crafting a solution, who can clearly identify which tasks should be handled by the senior developers and those that should be delegated to the more junior developers, create testing plans for the testers and the documentation writers and ultimately guide the Customer UAT team through the stringent test scenarios to ensure that the application does what was requested, does not crash, does not present the user with an explosion of colour and animation and finally go back to the customer and get that all-important sign-off so that the invoicing and payments can be finalised. Some of us have been lucky enough to have been assigned to a project where we were able to interact with the customer, understand their business, understand their pain or their ambitions, then take that knowledge and produce the requirement specifications, technical process flows, choose the software elements, write the code that pulls all of the components into a functioning whole, documents their code such that future developers who have to work with that code can do so without messing it up because they are unaware that a statement in line 23 of 5000 lines will inadvertently cause the logic on line 2356 to take an unexpected step to the left and render the program unusable. Very few developers get to spend time with the quality assurance staff and ultimately the users who have to use the application to do their jobs and be able to go home without a blinding headache and a sense of dread that tomorrow they are going to have to fight with the application to get the printout or that all-important "Your data has been saved. Click OK to proceed" popup. I have seldom met a programmer who will concede that their code is not as good as the person coding next to them, or for that matter finding a developer who can gracefully and politely read some truly awful code of another developer and take the time to work with that bad developer and help them become a better programmer without inadvertently step on 1 f 20 emotional and ideological traps that arise in every one of these encounters. Or maybe I would use the analogy of the McDonalds Ice-cream specialist who was born to whip up the most perfect McFlurry who has to stand and watch a steady stream of ice-cream servers who don't give a damn and will be leaving in a month to go and pour soda at Wendy's. For the last 50 years software creators, whether they be individuals or technology companies, have discussed, and theorized, and consulted psychologists and time-management experts, and even astrologers to come up with the definitive guide to creating perfect, absolutely perfect, application. Entire libraries of books and templates and methodologies and Predictive Indicators intended to match the right person to the right role and despite those 50 years and the brilliant, practical, theorists and technologists who have contributed, with dedication and fervor to this topic, And yet, for every model that has emerged from these think tanks, 100 bad applications are spilling out the doors of the technology companies. And I haven't even started on the external forces, the project managers, the customer relations manager, the accountants, the middle managers, and worst of all the salesmen who, in just doing their jobs, manage to inflict sufficient damage to the 'plan' thus guaranteeing that the final product will be ....less. But then you encounter a group of people who have formed themselves into a community, a 'Developer Community', who come from a myriad of different backgrounds, skills, methodologies, personalities, and socio-economic, gender-based cultures who miraculously have one thing in common. They love to code. Their hearts soar when they interact with a user who says 'Thank you because of some modification that they have made that has made that user's life just that little bit better. And all of us have at some time or other written a bad piece of code or have struggled to fit into the 'TEAM', or had to deal with a salesman who has sold unrealistic solutions and unachievable timelines to a customer who in reality didn't actually know what they actually wanted to start with. We have seen it all, we have notched up successes and strive hard to forget the failures and yet we go to bed at night and we dream of tropical islands with dancers wrapped in fine silks with pet tigers on leads and woken up the following morning with 5 pages of code written vividly on the insides of their skulls and in a blinding flash of light they know that they have cracked it. The mists of possibilities and uncertainties and intrusions and indecision that has plagued them for the previous 4 weeks have overnight coalesced into the 'Perfect' solution. Their fingers are already tapping at their laptops as they eat their breakfast and for the next 8, 18, 80 hours magic flows from their fingers into that IDE that is the interface between their imagination and the architecture that will swallow up their code and compile it into the module and voila! It's done, and it's beautiful. And then we go home and get up the next day and do it all again. And as we create solutions we come to our community and we bounce ideas off each other, we seek out the nuggets of knowledge and experience from our friends who went through the process of being the first person to master a technique or understand a piece of functionality that is almost incomprehensible to most of us because or minds might not be wired in such a way that understanding that functionality was as easy as watching the Eurovision song contest without crying. What we all share in common though are years and years of tuning our coding styles, learning and absorbing emerging technologies, developing the skills to share our knowledge with the people we work with without making them run from the room sobbing because you have been too brutal in your appraisal of their work and it is through a community like ours that so many of us have become the skilled and dedicated developers that we are. What I do know is that generally speaking, I have met more developers who have been able to help the Business Analysts understand the requirements, ask the right questions of the customer to find out what they actually need, pacify the project managers that their agile, and scrum, and Jira, and storyboards will get to the finish line without incurring penalties for late delivery. Who find the time to document their code knowing that no matter how well it is written it is going to take another developer some time to work out what you have written and how it fits into the bigger picture and finally, one day, they get to meet the user who is using that application who turns round and comments that this application has helped them get their work done quickly and efficiently, that doesn't shower them with pompous popups asking them how they could be so stupid to put a text letter into a numeric field. We may not be able to ensure that every element in the chain is going to work as expected and that ideas and requirements don't occasionally get twisted in translation nor make every single user equally happy but we can control the space that we occupy and we know what we are doing and we have adopted different coding styles over the years and we find our selves at a point where we believe that we can layout a template, a structure, a developers ethical code and produce a set of standards and conventions on which we all (give or take) agree, if followed, will stand a chance of guaranteeing that the programs we write work, are readable and maintainable and when fitted into the whole will generate an application that works, is good, beautiful even. We take pride in our community. We welcome the input of the outside world, we like to learn and experiment and listen to the experiences of our comrades and when we are in Boston we will gather in a fairly dark room and drink a little too much and listen and watch as one of ours demonstrates his latest little app or tool or plugin and it makes us happy and we feel very much at home. Nigel. Hi Nigel, despite your tone of vengeance, I agree with you, I know the ability that developers have and that in many cases, they know much more than the user, or even anyone else who claims to know the process. And if it generated this feeling, I'm sorry, it wasn't the idea, and yes, it's good to have a different view. At the same time, you agree with me that this look from the outside also influences, no? And, I saw in your text a good part of the questions that I live in my work. I can only thank you for your "comment" and apologize if it was too general and offended you as a whole. At the same time, I believe that we have different views and that uniting them is certainly beneficial. So thanks and sorry. And these discussions, in my opinion, are very healthy and provide growth. Hi Andre, I would like to apologise if the tone of my reply came across as vengeful,, that was certainly not my intention. An hour ago I started writing a response where I took two examples from documentaries that I had watched during these long Covid Lockdown hours. One was about the production of a single Rolls Royce car and the amount of time, craftsmanship, quality control, pride and perfection that goes into the manufacture of each car. Each component is crafted by an individual who has practised his art over decades of trial and error. If the component has the slightest 'fault', quite often some imperfection that 99% of the population would not notice but the man who crafted the component and the quality control manager did notice and the item would be scrapped and the process would start all over again and I guess that it is for that reason that the best Rolls Royce cars sell for around $12 million. Probably half of that cost goes into those discarded items that did not meet the standard of quality that Rolls Royce prides itself in. The second documentary was about the ice cream machines that franchise owners of McDonald's restaurants have to buy when they buy a McDonald's restaurant and how those machines have a very complicated cleaning program, which, should it fail, renders the machine unusable until a certified mechanic is called out to come and fix the machine. The mechanics are certified by the manufacturers of the ice cream machines and the rates they charge are high and in the food business where profit margins are slim is easy to understand why roughly one-third of McDonald's restaurants in the USA are not serving ice cream as the machine is 'broken'. 25% of the companies revenue is derived from the 'services' of their mechanics. The company could probably make an ice cream machine that doesn't break down but to do so would eliminate 25% of their revenue. It just so happens that the company that makes the ice cream machines are located in the same city as McDonald's headquarters and they have had a 50-year relationship where McDonald's earn a certain amount of revenue through the sales of the ice cream machines and the ice cream machine manufacturer earns 25% of their revenue by supplying machines that in a sense are designed to fail periodically. It also turns out that both McDonald's and the ice cream manufacturer are owned by a nameless holding company. In the original version of this reply I went into far greater detail about each documentary and then two things happened. For the last month I have been using a program called Grammarly which, in the free version, will do basic spelling checks and other gramatical errors but in the paid version it will analyse your text and using fairly sophisticated algorithms will score your text against 10 different criteria and make suggestions, very good suggestions, as to how a paragraph could be rephrased as the original is too verbose or is too passive or aggressive and so on. I suspect that if I had run my original message it would have detected that the tone was a bit 'vengeful' and would have suggested ways that I could express the concepts I was trying to convey in a more palatable manner. The other thing that happened is I accidentally hit the back page button and I lost all of the text that I had written and so I rewrote it and given that I didn't have an hour to write out all of the detail in my original I ended up writing this text instead. Grammarly tells me that I score 5/5 for Informal, 4/5 for optimistic and 3/5 for confidence. I guess the last one, confidence, is due to the fact that I haven't yet linked the messages behind the documentaries to the subject of software. I have worked in software companies that have been in business for 30 years or so and there were people and practices within those companies that led to a certain sense of 'we do it like this because we have always done it like this'. That can work in two ways, if you happen to have worked out a formula where all of the constituent parts are tried and tested and produce a certain level of excellence then that software company is likely to produce good applications and will continue in business for many years to come. Somewhere in those companies you are likely to find individuals who take great pride in their work and that sense of excellence influences those around that person and challenges them to aim for the same levels of excellence. On the otherhand it can lead to a company that started off with an innovative product that sold well and as a result they have applied the same standard to everything that they have done thereafter irrespective of changes in technology or fresh ideas brought in by new employees but eventually fail as the software they produce is no longer innovative and probably fails periodically requiring a 'sotware expert' to come on site and fix it. It is a fine balance to maintain. Companies cannot just change the way that they do things at the say so of some fresh employee with bright ideas. Nor can they remain stuck in a certain well trodden path because eventually they will be left behind as other younger and more adventurous companies enter the market with their innovative products and steal the lime light. Excellence comes at a price. Those individuals who have taken their craft seriously and have become masters in their trade do not come cheap. Companies that try and produce excelllence using people with fewer skills and a willingness to work for lower wages are likely to produce poor software. The art is in matching the right people for the right tasks. Investing in the areas that demand excellence whilst not ignoring the role of the often overlooked managers who hold the whole enterprise together with their stoic reliance on repetative tasks. At this point Grammarly is telling me that I have said enough. My ratings are now showing 5/5 for Optimistic and Confident and 5/5 for Formal as opposed to 5/5 for informal that it scored me half way through the text. Yours respectfully Nigel @Evgeny.Shvarov can we add a same Chinese tag in CN DC？ Thx！

Hi Community! I'm pleased to share the announcement that InterSystems IRIS Data Platform is available on Amazon Web Services marketplace! Few details: Version: InterSystems IRIS 2018.2 Preview; OS: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS; License: BYOL. Ease deploying your InterSystems IRIS cloud solutions now on AWS! Stay tuned! Hi Evgeny,Any new on when the Community Edition of IRIS will be available ?Steve As it was announced on Global Summit it should happen in November. We have at least one more week of November. So, stay tuned )

Has anyone done any integration with Kafka, especially prior to IRIS? If yes what was your experience such as specific pain points to be overcome. David If you are planning to implement an interface with Kafka, I suggest reading the following:https://docs.intersystems.com/latest/csp/docbook/DocBook.UI.Page.cls?KEY=EJVG_instructions#EJVG_instructions_operationhttps://community.intersystems.com/post/ensemble-rabbitmq-java-client-quick-start-guideWhen it comes to specific pain, there are just a lot of pieces to maintain compared to common interfaces, such as HL7, etc.Also, if you plan to send a large volume of messages, you'll have to do that asynchronously. The problem with that is you may send 100 or even 1000 messages before you realize there is a connection or other problem. You'll have to think of a way to keep track of what messages have been sent successfully and which didn't, and requeue messages that have failed. Of course, if you are not worried about "losing" messages, that's not an issue.

Hi Community!I'm pleased to announce the official start of InterSystems Developer Community in Spanish!Here is the landing page which describes the thing:Also, you can switch between sites using two language buttons in the top right corner.So!If you know Spanish welcome to contribute articles, discuss articles and answer questions about InterSystems data platforms now in Spanish too!Also!If you posted an article in English it could be translated by anyone in Spanish and will be helpful for even more people! Check the translation guide.And! You can expand the audience and translate your question into another language - just click the "Es" switcher in your English question and proceed with translation - the translated question will be generated in another language. For Example: And let me introduce you @David.Reche from InterSystems Iberia office as creator and now as a manager of InterSystems Developer Community in Spanish!Don't hesitate to provide your feedback to David how to make Spanish InterSystems community better!Welcome to InterSystems Developers Community in Spanish, and stay tuned! Congratulations to all Spanish community and, in particular, congratulations to @David.Reche for this great work.Muchas gracias When will Russian language support be available? Hi Vitaly! Thanks for the idea! Please submit a task and vote for it. If we have a lot of votes will consider to add it. I have one problem with it - if we introduce Russian Community, will you stop answering questions in English? ) If we have a lot of votes will consider to add it. Do we still have to vote for this? On-my enough one moreover, that moderators (you and Dmitry) and engineers InterSystems (Eduard, Alexander, Anton, Sergey, Anastasia, Timur, etc.) - Russian-speaking. I have one problem with it - if we introduce Russian Community, will you stop answering questions in English?) 1. I here like writing code more than words. 2. It will depend on who is asking.

Hi everyone, I am pleased to announce that the Evaluation Service is now LIVE! If you are an InterSystems End User or an InterSystems Partner and you want to try the latest version of IRIS with all its enterprise features (mirroring, ECP and sharding), and you want it NOW, this is for you. The Evaluation Service allows you to get your hands on an IRIS kit and a very powerful IRIS license for evaluation purposes in less than 1 minute. No paperwork. No need to talk to anyone. Fully self-service. This service is only for IRIS and IRIS for Health and it is very easy to use. There are two ways to get to the service: WRC - If you are an end user or a partner, you can access the service using our Worldwide Response Center service at http://wrc.intersystems.com Partner Hub - If you are a partner, you can access the service using the Partner Hub at http://partnerhub.intersystems.com WRC To access the service using WRC you must have a WRC user account. If you need help to setup your WRC user account, please send an e-mail to support@intersystems.com and they will be glad to help you. Once you have access to WRC, just click on Online Distributions. Then click on the Evaluations button. Partner Hub If you are an InterSystems Partner you can access the evaluation service from WRC or the Partner Hub. You will see an Evaluation Service button on your main dashboard. The Service Here is a screenshot of the service under WRC: It is now so very easy! Just pick a product, pick a platform, pick a version and click on the big green button! The evaluation service will send you the license key to use with the IRIS product, platform and version you picked and will start the download of the kit. What is the Size of the Evaluation License? The license enables 256 cores and has all its enterprise features enabled (Mirroring, ECP and Sharding). It also has NLP, Interoperability and Analytics. In summary, everything is enabled and the license lasts for 35 days. What happens after the license expires? After 35 days, the license will expire. You can come back to the service and get a new one! Simple like that. Your account manager will get a notification every time you request a new license or renew an existing one. They will be offering help to support your evaluation. InterSystems IRIS 2019.1.1 is there! InterSystems IRIS 2019.1.1 allows in place upgrades of Caché and Ensemble and can be used with IRIS API Management. InterSystems IRIS and IRIS for Health 2019.1.1 is now available on the Evaluation Service! If you are evaluating migrating to IRIS, now it is your change to go to the Evaluation Service and get a powerful evaluation license! Where do I get help? If you have more questions, just send an e-mail to support@intersystems.com and we will be glad to help you! For anyone currently at Global Summit 2019, @Amir.Samary will be demonstrating the new Evaluation Service TODAY at from 1:30-2:15 in the Tech Exchange, table 3. Come and check it out and give us your feedback! Thanks, Ben Spead Manager, Application Services, InterSystems Excellent News, Amir! Great and timely project! Congrats! Great news! thanks Amir. Fantastic !!! Ready, Set, CODE !

Hello Everyone, We are working on growing the InterSystems Certification program, and would like to gather some input from the community. Please participate in this brief 6-minute survey to share your thoughts with us regarding the new certification exams we have planned and other program improvements that we are considering. https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/2ZVHNPS Thanks for your help!

Hey Developers! We're pleased to announce the next competition of creating open-source solutions using InterSystems IRIS or IRIS for Health! Please join: ⚡️ InterSystems Interoperability Contest ⚡️ Duration: November 2-22, 2020 Prizes 1. Experts Nomination - winners will be determined by a specially selected jury: 🥇 1st place - $2,000 🥈 2nd place - $1,000 🥉 3rd place - $500 2. Community Nomination - an application that will receive the most votes in total: 🥇 1st place - $1,000 🥈 2nd place - $500 🥉 3rd place - $250 If several participants score the same amount of votes they all are considered as winners and the money prize is shared among the winners. Who can participate? Any Developer Community member, except for InterSystems employees. Create an account! Contest Period November 2-15: Two weeks to upload your applications to Open Exchange (also during this period, you can edit your projects). November 16-22: One week to vote. November 23: Winners announcement. The topic 💡 Interoperability solutions for InterSystems IRIS and IRIS for Health 💡 Develop an interoperability solution or a solution that helps to develop or/and maintain Interoperability solutions using InterSystems IRIS or InterSystems IRIS for Health. The application should work either on IRIS Community Edition or IRIS for Health Community Edition or IRIS Advanced Analytics Community Edition. The application should be Open Source and published on GitHub. If you introduce special technology implementations in your application, you will get some technology bonuses. Stay tuned for bonuses description. Helpful resources 1. Example applications: IRIS-Interoperability-template ETL-Interoperability-Adapter HL7 and SMS Interoperability Demo Twitter Sentiment Analysis with IRIS Healthcare HL7 XML RabbitMQ adapter PEX demo 2. How to submit your app to the contest: How to publish an application on Open Exchange How to submit an application for the contest 3. Online courses: Interoperability for Business Interoperability QuickStart Interoperability Resource Guide - 2019 4. Videos: Intelligent Interoperability Interoperability for Health Overview Judgment Please find the Judgment and Voting Rules for the Contest here. So! Ready. Set. Code. Please join our exciting coding marathon! ❗️ Please check out the Official Contest Terms here.❗️ Participants can also use PEX to develop adapters in Java and .Net right? Here's an example of PEX production. Sure. PEX demo is included in examples list, thanks @Eduard.Lebedyuk Some ideas for contestants: IMAP - while InterSystems IRIS supports SMTP/POP3 protocols native support for IMAP would be an interesting addition. Discussion. Swagger BO - Swagger is a leading REST API specification format. Automatically generate Business Operation from swagger specification BS for binary protocols - similar to Swagger above but for binary protocols. Write-up is here. One new idea for contestants: MLOperation. Currently, PythonGateway provides low-level PythonOperation aimed at expert users who write Python code themselves. The idea of MLOperation is to build a high-level Interoperability adapter targeted at a broader userbase. Essentially your adapter provides generalized Fit/Predict/Optimize methods and users need to provide the data, target model type, and hyper parameter values. This closes the gap between the hands-off approach of the IntegratedML and low-level approach of the PythonGateway. The work is described in this issue. We added an IRIS Interoperability Template with a very simple (the simplest probably) but working template of an IRIS Interop production Developers! Only 3 days left before the start of the 7th InterSystems online programming contest! You will have 2 weeks (Nov 2-15) to upload your solutions to Open Exchange and 1 week (Nov 15-22) to compete for the main prizes. So, join our competition and win! 💪🏼 Technology bonuses for the interoperability contest Developers! Are you ready to participate in our exciting coding competition? The contest has already started! And we're waiting for your cool projects! 🚀 Want more? Watch these videos on InterSystems Developers YouTube related to interoperability topic: ⏯ Natural Language Processing with InterSystems IRIS ⏯ HL7 and SMS Interoperability Demo ⏯ PEX: Production Extension Framework Demo Enjoy and stay tuned! Don't miss the latest video on InterSystems Developers YouTube: ⏯ InterSystems Interoperability Contest Kick-off Webinar In this webinar, we talk about the interoperability capabilities of InterSystems IRIS, will do a demo of building the basic IRIS interoperability solution, and demo how to use the PEX. Also, we discuss and answer the questions on how to build interoperability solutions using InterSystems IRIS and IRIS for Health. Stay tuned! ✌🏼 Hey guys, You're very welcome to join the InterSystems Developers Discord Channel to discuss all topics and questions related to InterSystems programming contests. There're lively discussions with InterSystems developers! Join us! 😎 How to apply for the programming contest Log in to Open Exchange, open your applications section. Open the application which you want to apply for the contest and click Apply for Contest. Make sure the status is 'Published'. The application will go for the review and if it fits the topic of the contest the application will be listed on the contest board. Developers, One week left to submit your apps for the Interoperability contest! Feel free to submit if you haven't completed your project yet – you'll be able to fix bugs and make improvements during the voting week too. The first application is already on the Contest Board: @Yuri.Gomes with the upload-adapter project is in the game! 🔥 Check out the InterSystems IRIS interoperability Custom Upload Adapter to multipart file requests. And who's next? 😉 Hey Community, Only 5 days left to upload your apps to the Interoperability contest! Show your best coding skills on InterSystems IRIS or IRIS for Health, earn some $$$ and glory! 💥 Voting for the best apps will begin soon! Only 3 days left before the end of registration for the Interoperability contest. 🗓 Registration ends on November 15 – 11:59 PM EST. Note: Also during the voting period, you can edit your projects. Don't miss your chance to win! 🏆 On behalf of the idea: there is a fresh request of an AS2 protocol interoperability adapter.