This series of articles would cover Python Gateway for InterSystems Data Platforms. Execute Python code and more from InterSystems IRIS. This project brings you the power of Python right into your InterSystems IRIS environment:
Beginner
Hi Developers!
Recently we launched InterSystems Package Manager - ZPM. And one of the intentions of the ZPM is to let you package your solution and submit into the ZPM registry to make its deployment as simple as "install your-package" command.
To do that you need to introduce module.xml file into your repository which describes what is your InterSystems IRIS package consists of.
This article describes different parts of module.xml and will help you to craft your own.
I will start from samples-objectscript package, which installs into IRIS the Sample ObjectScript application and could be installed with:
zpm: USER>install samples-objectscript
It is probably the simplest package ever and here is the module.xml which describes the package:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Export generator="Cache" version="25">
<Document name="samples-objectscript.MODULE">
<Module>
<Name>samples-objectscript</Name>
<Version>1.0.0</Version>
<Packaging>module</Packaging>
<SourcesRoot>src</SourcesRoot>
<Resource Name="ObjectScript.PKG"/>
</Module>
</Document>
</Export>
Hi Developers!
Often I find questions on how to install IRIS, connect to IRIS from IDE, setup the environment, compile, debug, maintain the repository.
Here below possibly the shortest way to set up all the environment and start development with ObjectScript on InterSystems IRIS.
Prerequisites
Make sure you have Git, Docker, and VSCode installed
Install Docker and ObjectScript extensions into VSCode
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Here we go!
Hi Developers!
Often we need to use relatively small arrays with constants, static arrays in algorithms, etc where we need to do something with each element of an array. There are several ways to deal with it in ObjectSctipt.
Previously I used to use globals, locals, PPG for this but not so long time ago figured out that %List is a way too handy.
Indeed, suppose we have an array of months and need to set up and use it in our code.
Last comment 5 September 2019
Hello everyone!
Recently I search how to convert Cyrillic to Latin with Cache Object Script, but didn't find anything and decided to write ourselves,
So here code:
Last comment 30 August 2019
In many projects I was faced with storing hierarchical data (tree) in classes.
By tree, I mean such data, where each node has a parent node — an object of the same class.
Many examples of such data can be given. For example, a catalog in the online store. Suppose that this online store sells books, in this case, the category tree might look like this:
Last comment 2 August 2019
Beginner, Developer Community FAQ, Framework, Node.js, Python, Developer Community, InterSystems IRIS, Open Exchange
Hi Developers!
This is the second post on the resources for Developers. This part is about Open Exchange
Using Open Exchange to Learn InterSystems
InterSystems Open Exchange is a applications gallery of tools, connectors, and libraries which InterSystems Developers submit to share the experience, approaches and do business. All the applications are either built with InterSystems data platforms or are intended to use for development with InterSystems data platforms.
If you are a beginner developer you can take a look at applications in Technology Example category. All the applications in this category come with open source code repositories, so you are able to run the samples and examples in a docker container with IRIS on your laptop or in the cloud IRIS sandbox. Examples:
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?
Below is a simple alert processor based on the EnsLib.HTTP.OutboundAdapter to send text alerts via an SMS Gateway service. Typically, all that is needed to send an HTTP Post to the gateway service is the destination phone number, a source phone number, credentials, and the URL.
The code below is based on the Anveo gateway whose interface is as follows:
When I start talking about InterSystems IRIS with more technically-minded people I always talk about how at the root of things it is a multimodel DBMS.
In my opinion that is the main advantage (on the DBMS side).
You want some sort of summary for your data? Use SQL!
Do you want to work extensively with one record? Use objects!
Want to access or set one value and you know the key? Think again. Use globals!
And the data is stored only once. You just choose the way you want to access it.
On the first overview it's a nice story - short and concise and it gets the message across, but when people really start working with InterSystems IRIS the questions start.
How are classes and tables and globals related? What are they to each other? How's data really stored?
In this article I would try to answer these questions and explain what's really going on.
Keywords: Jupyter Notebook, Tensorflow GPU, Keras, Deep Learning, MLP, and HealthShare
1. Purpose and Objectives
In previous"Part I" we have set up a deep learning demo environment. In this "Part II" we will test what we could do with it.
Many people at my age had started with the classic MLP (Multi-Layer Perceptron) model. It is intuitive hence conceptually easier to start with.
Last comment 26 June 2019
Now that the InterSystems IRIS Data Platform Community Edition is available on Docker Hub (https://hub.docker.com/_/intersystems-iris-data-platform), it seems like a great time to try InterSystems IRIS in a container.
Last comment 13 June 2019
Beginner, Code snippet, Development Environment, Testing, Tips & Tricks, Tools, Caché, Ensemble, InterSystems IRIS
The code of %Z.obj is available on Open Exchange.
During testing your code you are are often confronted with the need to examine
the actual content of an object. Either using ZWRITE or $system.OBJ.Dump()
you get a picture of simple properties as "--- attribute values ---"
while "--- swizzled references ---" are more confusing than informative
and with "--- calculated references ---" you are just left in the lurch.
Last comment 10 June 2019
Beginner, Data Model, Globals, Indexing, Key Value, Performance, Relational Tables, Caché, InterSystems IRIS
In the previous parts (1, 2) we talked about globals as trees. In this article, we will look at them as sparse arrays.
A sparse array - is a type of array where most values assume an identical value.
In practice, you will often see sparse arrays so huge that there is no point in occupying memory with identical elements. Therefore, it makes sense to organize sparse arrays in such a way that memory is not wasted on storing duplicate values.
In some programming languages, sparse arrays are part of the language - for example, in J, MATLAB. In other languages, there are special libraries that let you use them. For C++, those would be Eigen and the like.
Globals are good candidates for implementing sparse arrays for the following reasons:
Last comment 23 May 2019
In this series of articles, I'd like to present and discuss several possible approaches toward software development with InterSystems technologies and GitLab. I will cover such topics as:
Last comment 22 May 2019
Hi all. Today we are going to upload a ML model into IRIS Manager and test it.
Note: I have done the following on Ubuntu 18.04, Apache Zeppelin 0.8.0, Python 3.6.5.
Introduction
These days many available different tools for Data Mining enable you to develop predictive models and analyze the data you have with unprecedented ease. InterSystems IRIS Data Platform provide a stable foundation for your big data and fast data applications, providing interoperability with modern DataMining tools.
Last comment 17 May 2019
The last time that I created a playground for experimenting with machine learning using Apache Spark and an InterSystems data platform, see Machine Learning with Spark and Caché, I installed and configured everything directly on my laptop: Caché, Python, Apache Spark, Java, some Hadoop libraries, to name a few. It required some effort, but eventually it worked.
Last comment 17 May 2019
Terminal scripts can be used to run pre-designed commands on the terminal, like a batch file. You can write anything that can be executed on terminal, like for loop, if else and so on, inside Terminal scripts. In this article, I will show you how to call Terminal scripts, how to use parameters in Terminal scripts and how to avoid session disconnected when running Terminal scripts. If you have any information about how to use Terminal scripts or you have any feedback, please feel free to leave a comment.
Last comment 23 April 2019
I needed to know programmatically if last ran failed or not.
After some exploring, here's the code:
ClassMethod isLastTestOk() As %Boolean { set in = ##class(%UnitTest.Result.TestInstance).%OpenId(^UnitTest.Result) for i=1:1:in.TestSuites.Count() { #dim suite As %UnitTest.Result.TestSuite set suite = in.TestSuites.GetAt(i) return:suite.Status=0 $$$NO } quit $$$YES }
Last comment 13 April 2019
Beginner, Data Model, Languages, Mapping, Object Data Model, ObjectScript, XML, Caché, InterSystems IRIS
How Tax Service, OpenStreetMap, and InterSystems IRIS
could help developers get clean addresses
Pieter Brueghel the Younger, Paying the Tax (The Tax Collector), 1640
In my previous article, we just skimmed the surface of objects. Let's continue our reconnaissance. Today's topic is a tough one. It's not quite BIG DATA, but it's still the data not easy to work with: we're talking about fairly large amounts of data. It won't all fit into RAM at once, and some of it won't even fit on the drive (not due to lack of space, but because there's a lot of junk). The name of our subject is FIAS DB: the Federal Information Address System database - the databases of addresses in Russia. The archive is 5.5 GB. And it's a compressed XML file. After extraction, it will be a full 53 GB (set aside 110 GB for extraction). And when you start to parse and convert it, that 110 GB won't be enough. There won't be enough RAM either.
I am planning to implement Business Intelligence based on the data in my instances. What is the best way to set up my databases and environment to use DeepSee?
Last comment 16 March 2019
In part 1 we started working on a security model for DeepSee and create a user type having privileges typical of end users. In this part we are going to create a second user type with ability to edit and create DeepSee pivot tables and dashboards.
In recent discussion on CachéQuality I was (friendly) blamed for old syntax promotion and deliberate obfuscation of the code. Therefore I decided to clarify my point and shed some light on one of possible source of side effects that may unexpectedly occur with RETURN command with an argument.
Last comment 15 March 2019
InterSystems Data Platform includes utilities and tools for system monitoring and alerting, however System Administrators new to solutions built on the InterSystems Data Platform (a.k.a Caché) need to know where to start and what to configure.
This guide shows the path to a minimum monitoring and alerting solution using references from online documentation and developer community posts to show you how to enable and configure the following;
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Caché Monitor: Scans the console log and sends emails alerts.
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System Monitor: Monitors system status and resources, generating notifications (alerts and warnings) based on fixed parameters and also tracks overall system health.
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Health Monitor: Samples key system and user-defined metrics and compares them to user-configurable parameters and established normal values, generating notifications when samples exceed applicable or learned thresholds.
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History Monitor: Maintains a historical database of performance and system usage metrics.
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pButtons: Operating system and Caché metrics collection scheduled daily.
Remember this guide is a minimum configuration, the included tools are flexible and extensible so more functionality is available when needed. This guide skips through the documentation to get you up and going. You will need to dive deeper into the documentation to get the most out of the monitoring tools, in the meantime, think of this as a set of cheat sheets to get up and running.
Last comment 11 March 2019
Beginner, Best Practices, Change management, Containerization, Continuous Integration, Deployment, Docker, Git, System Administration, Caché
In this series of articles, I'd like to present and discuss several possible approaches toward software development with InterSystems technologies and GitLab. I will cover such topics as:
- Git 101
- Git flow (development process)
- GitLab installation
- GitLab Workflow
- Continuous Delivery
- GitLab installation and configuration
- GitLab CI/CD
In the previous article, we covered Git basics, why a high-level understanding of Git concepts is important for modern software development, and how Git can be used to develop software. Still, our focus was on the implementation part of software development, but this part presents:
- GitLab Workflow - a complete software life cycle process - from idea to user feedback
- Continuous Delivery - software engineering approach in which teams produce software in short cycles, ensuring that the software can be reliably released at any time. It aims at building, testing, and releasing software faster and more frequently.
Last comment 1 March 2019
I have a few cubes and numerous dashboards and I am ready to deploy them to our end users and administrators. How to configure DeepSee so that users don’t disrupt each other’s areas and are restricted from using functionalities specific to developers?
Last comment 22 February 2019
Hi,
This is a quick tutorial how to install and use TFS in Atelier. It is based on my self experience and some tricks that I 've noted.
If you are used to using visual studio maybe you feel that is a bit slow and heavy, but you have the same TFS panel as you have in Visual Studio, so don't need any special "training" to use it 
Last comment 15 February 2019
Good News!! You can use now the Free InterSystems IRIS Community Edition in the AWS Cloud
Hello,
It's very common that people new in InterSystems IRIS want to start to work in a personal project in a full free environment. If you are one of this, Good News!! You can use now the Free InterSystems IRIS Community Edition in the AWS Cloud.
Last comment 5 February 2019
Recently I needed a classmethod that returns annotation value based on a name of a activity.
As doing it at runtime seemed inefficient, I wrote compile-time utility that iterates over all business process activities and generates relevant code.
This code could be used in a variety of situations when you need to iterate over business process activities, just add it as a secondary superclass to your BPL processes.
Last comment 27 January 2019