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Hi Community,
We have some exciting news! It's time for the next InterSystems writing competition:
✍️ InterSystems Technical Article Contest 2026 ✍️
Write an article on any topic related to the InterSystems products and services.
🎁 Gifts for everyone: A special gift for each author participating in the competition!
Many organizations that operate systems built on legacy technology stacks are facing significant support and maintenance complexities. They are eager to modernize, but the transition is usually prohibitively complex and expensive. These challenges apply to virtually any legacy tech, while InterSystems-based systems have their own unique nuances.
Key modernization challenges include:
When managing critical healthcare data through an integration engine you want to know the moment a queue starts backing up or a service drops.
Unfortunately, this usually leads to an email inbox stuffed full of notifications that can sometimes seem impossible to maintain.
Well, I’ve not solved that problem.
But I have created something that could help...
Hey Community,
We’re launching a new initiative in which ideas from the Ideas Portal become real applications on Open Exchange, and their authors are rewarded through Global Masters:
💡 Community Bounty Program “Idea to Application” ⚙️
Hello to all the esteemed members of the InterSystems developer community in Spanish!
Although I often consult the developer community and have occasionally left a question here, this will be my first article, and what better occasion to do so than by participating in the 3rd technical article contest.
The topic I will cover in this article is the different tools that InterSystems IRIS provides us to optimize both the databases and the queries we run, as well as the new types of storage and data.
Hi Community,
It's time to announce the winners of the InterSystems Full Stack Contest!
Thanks to all our amazing participants who submitted 16 applications 🔥
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Now it's time to announce the winners!
We are happy to present the bonuses page for the applications submitted to the InterSystems "Full Stack Programming" Contest 2026
See the results below.
Hi Community,
It's voting time! Cast your votes for the best applications in our InterSystems Full Stack Contest:
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How to vote? Details below.
Picture a dark room. The only light comes from a wall of displays and a blinking prompt that politely informs you:
“LINK TO M-U5K-3T: HIGH LATENCY – DIRECT CONTROL DISABLED.”
Perfect.
You are supposed to be a Rover Commander in the Musketeer Corps. Somewhere absurdly far away, you have an autonomous unit parked on a hostile exoplanet. It wants you dead, but it’s also covered in minerals that could fund a small civilization.
The ore on M-U5K-3T is everywhere. Unfortunately, everything else on the surface is actively trying to kill you.
So, we don't pilot. We script.
In the previous article, we saw in detail about Connectors, that let user upload their file and get it converted into embeddings and store it to IRIS DB. In this article, we'll explore different retrieval options that IRIS AI Studio offers - Semantic Search, Chat, Recommender and Similarity.
I created iris-budget app for the InterSystems Full Stack Contest in 2026. By full stack, we mean a frontend web or mobile application that inserts, updates, or deletes data in InterSystems IRIS via REST API, Native API, ODBC/JDBC, or Embedded Python.
My app uses multiple REST APIs to add a new category or retrieve a list of categories of expenses and income.
I inherited /csp/coffee from module.xml in iris-fullstack-template.
For this project, I created a swagger file called "budget.json.
You’ve seen how tools like Lovable are shaking up web development. People are spinning up entire apps just by talking to an AI, almost like pair‑programming on steroids.
Now imagine bringing that same “vibe coding” experience into healthcare. know, it sounds crazy. Healthcare is complex, full of regulations, and usually gives us a headache just thinking about the interoperability rules.
That’s exactly the space where withLove lives: an AI‑Native, Low‑Code platform built entirely on InterSystems IRIS for Health.
Hi Developers,
We are happy to announce the first InterSystems online programming contest of the year:
🏆 InterSystems Full Stack Contest🏆
Duration: February 2 - March 1, 2026
Prize pool: $12,000
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Hi Community,
It's time to announce the winners of the InterSystems "Bringing Ideas to Reality" Contest!
Thanks to all our amazing participants who submitted 14 applications 🔥
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Now it's time to announce the winners!
We are happy to present the bonuses page for the applications submitted to the InterSystems "Bringing Ideas to Reality" Contest 2025!
See the results below.
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Apache Airflow is the leading open-source platform to programmatically author, schedule, and monitor data pipelines and workflows using Python. Workflows are defined as code (DAGs), making them version-controlled, testable, and reusable. With a rich UI, 100+ built-in operators, dynamic task generation, and native support for cloud providers, Airflow powers ETL/ELT, ML pipelines, and batch jobs at companies like Airbnb, Netflix, and Spotify.
Hi Community,
It's voting time! Cast your votes for the best applications in our InterSystems "Bringing Ideas to Reality" Contest:
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How to vote? Details below.
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As AI-driven automation becomes an essential part of modern information systems, integrating AI capabilities into existing platforms should be seamless and efficient. The IRIS Agent project showcases how generative AI can work effortlessly with InterSystems IRIS, leveraging its powerful interoperability framework—without the need to learn Python or build separate AI workflows from scratch.
This project explores how ChatGPT and Anthropic Claude, two of the most advanced AI models, can interact with IRIS using Custom GPTs and the Model Context Protocol (MCP).
Hello Developers! 👋
I’m excited to introduce IRIS IO Utility, my submission for the InterSystems "Bringing Ideas to Reality" Contest 2025. This VS Code extension provides you an intuitive and powerful interface for importing and exporting data without leaving your IDE. The extension implements and expand this idea submitted on the Ideas Portal turning a common developer need into a real tool: seamless IO operations with any IRIS instance directly inside VS Code.
Hi Developers,
Following the resounding success of last year's new contest, we decided to repeat it. Please welcome
🏆 Bringing Ideas to Reality Contest 🏆
Submit an application that implements an idea from the InterSystems Ideas Portal that has status Community Opportunity or Future Consideration, created before the publication of this announcement, and requires doing the actual programming 😉
Duration: November 17 - December 7, 2025 December 14, 2025 (the submission period extended until December 7)
Prize pool: $12,000
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Here are the technology bonuses for the InterSystems "Bringing Ideas to Reality" Contest 2025 that will give you extra points in the voting:
See the details below.
Hello
This article follows up on the question I had asked the community UDP Adapter not working
In this article, I will present to you
1) What is "UDP"?
2) The current state of Iris with UDP
3) My solution with the UDP adapter
UDP stands for User Datagram Protocol. It is one of the core protocols of the Internet Protocol (IP) suite, used for transmitting data over a network. Here are some key features of UDP:
HTTP and HTTPS with REST API
Hello
The HTTP protocol allows you to obtain resources, such as HTML documents. It is the basis of any data exchange on the Web and a client-server protocol, meaning that requests are initiated by the recipient, usually a Web browser.
REST APIs take advantage of this protocol to exchange messages between client and server. This makes REST APIs fast, lightweight, and flexible. REST APIs use the HTTP verbs GET, POST, PUT, DELETE, and others to indicate the actions they want to perform.
When we make a call to a RESt API, what actually happens is an HTTP call. The API receives this call and according to the requested verb and path, the API performs the desired action. In the case of the Iris implementation we can see this clearly in the URLMap definition area:
Hi Community,
It's time to announce the winners of the InterSystems .Net, Java, Python, and JavaScript Contest!
Thanks to all our amazing participants who submitted 11 applications 🔥
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Now it's time to announce the winners!
We are happy to present the bonuses page for the applications submitted to the InterSystems .Net, Java, Python, and JavaScript Contest!
See the results below.
| Project |
XEP |
Native SDK |
PEX |
Java Persister |
ADONET & . |
Hi Community,
It's voting time! Cast your votes for the best applications in our InterSystems .Net, Java, Python, and JavaScript Contest:
How to vote? Details below.
I’m excited to share the project I’ve submitted to the current InterSystems .Net, Java, Python, and JavaScript Contest — it’s called FHIR Data Explorer with Hybrid Search and AI Summaries, and you can find it on the InterSystems Open Exchange and on my GitHub page.
Hi everyone! 👋
I’m excited to share the project I’ve submitted to the current InterSystems .Net, Java, Python, and JavaScript Contest — it’s called IRIStool and Data Manager, and you can find it on the InterSystems Open Exchange and on my GitHub page.
Hi Developers!
Here are the technology bonuses for the InterSystems .Net, Java, Python, and JavaScript Contest that will give you extra points in the voting:
Hi Developers,
We are happy to announce the new InterSystems online programming contest:
🏆 InterSystems .Net, Java, Python, and JavaScript Contest 🏆
Duration: September 22 - October 12, 2025
Prize pool: $12,000
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