Hello everyone! This is my first post into the developer community and one that I hope is fairly simple to answer. In our environment we currently have 3 different Test environments for testing before migrating code to our Prod environment. Currently we are working on establishing a source control method using Git in house which has been a bit of a struggle. We have also had developers that had used different test and migration methods in the past which has caused some issues with keeping the different test environment in sync.

What I am looking for is an option to either copy a whole

The IKO documentation is robust. A single web page, that consists of about 50 actual pages of documentation. For beginners that can be a bit overwhelming. As the saying goes: how do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time. Let's start with the first bite: helm.

What is Helm?

Helm is to Kubernetes what the InterSystems Package Manager (IPM, formerly ObjectScript Package Manager - ZPM) is to IRIS.

It facilitates the installation of applications on the platform - in a fashion suitable for Kubernetes.

Hello everyone, 

My team is currently developing guidance and best practices for the generation, storage, and deployment of TUNE TABLE statistics across development and production environments. With that in mind, we want to get an idea of what methods teams in the field have developed for handling this data. In particular, we’d like to know the following: 

1. How often do you use TUNE TABLE in your development vs. production environments? 
2. Do you utilize the $SYSTEM.SQL.Stats.Table package to generate and export TUNE TABLE statistics as files? If so: 
   1. Do you store these in source control? 
   2. W

Hi!   

I'm trying to set up a Clinical Viewer demo env with HealthShare 2024.2. 
I've done the standard installation following the doc : 

• UCR - UCR demo with IHE
• CV - CV demo

Everything works until I get to the point where I have to enable federated SSO (UCR demo - Federated SSO). Once it is activated, I can no longer access the instance through the portal, and the browser displays the following error:

Checking the messages.log, I see that every time I try to enable federated SSO and access the portal, I encounter the following error:

12/24/24-10:51:55:639 (98515) 2 [Utility.Event] Error in

When it comes to build an iris image, we can use the cpf merge files.

Here is an cpf merge example:

[Actions]
CreateDatabase:Name=IRISAPP_DATA,Directory=/usr/irissys/mgr/IRISAPP_DATA

CreateDatabase:Name=IRISAPP_CODE,Directory=/usr/irissys/mgr/IRISAPP_CODE

CreateNamespace:Name=IRISAPP,Globals=IRISAPP_DATA,Routines=IRISAPP_CODE,Interop=1

ModifyService:Name=%Service_CallIn,Enabled=1,AutheEnabled=48

CreateApplication:Name=/frn,NameSpace=IRISAPP,DispatchClass=Formation.REST.Dispatch,AutheEnabled=48

ModifyUser:Name=SuperUser,PasswordHash=a31d24aecc0bfe560a7e45bd913ad27c667dc25a75cbfd358c451bb595b6bd52bd25c82cafaa23ca1dd30b3b4947d12d3bb0ffb2a717df29912b743a281f97c1,0a4c463a2fa1e7542b61aa48800091ab688eb0a14bebf536638f411f5454c9343b9aa6402b4694f0a89b624407a5f43f0a38fc35216bb18aab7dc41ef9f056b1,10000,SHA512

Hello. On some hosts, IRIS in containers.intersystems.com/intersystems/iris-community:2024.1 falls with a core dump.

auser:~$ docker run --rm -it --entrypoint=""  containers.intersystems.com/intersystems/iris-community:2024.1 bash
irisowner@6170dcdbe77c:~$ iris start IRIS
Illegal instruction (core dumped)

Coredump stack:

(gdb) bt
#0  0x000055688cf44743 in osregopen ()
#1  0x000055688cf4060a in ListConfig ()
#2  0x000055688cf3dcd7 in main ()

Are there some hardware requirements for IRIS docker container? Or maybe some specific settings?
Host details:
 

auser:~$ cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor

Good morning dear community,

This is like my first post in this community. Let's see how this turns out.
I have a question about the Intersystems Kubernetes Operator and the deployment of the webgateways.
I am responsible for the hosting and deployment of the apps. For the future we are planning to host our application in a kubernetes cluster. I am using the IKO for this.
I am using webgateways, for external access as separate pods. And sidecar containers for internal access, like the management portal.

My current Problem is the configuration of the webgateways.

The IRIS Installation Guide for Linux, Installation Directory section, says "Do not choose the /home directory, any of its subdirectories, or the /usr/local/etc/irissys directory." but there are no suggestions or any default.

What are your opinions on this? For example, I see that IRIS in a Docker container is installed in /usr/irissys. I'm wondering why that directory was chosen.

The official Linux filesystem docs say:

• /usr is the second major section of the filesystem.

Hi Community!

Suppose you have a working system on 8-bit Caché database and need to transfer the solution to Unicode database.

How do you manage that?

Hi folks!

Often, when we develop commercial solutions, there is a necessity to deploy solutions without source code, e.g., in order to preserve the IP.

One of the ways how this can be achieved is to use InterSystems Package Manager.

Here I asked Midjourney to paint an intellectual property of software:

How this can be achieved with IPM?

In fact, this is very simple; just add the Deploy="true" clause in the Resource element in your module.xml manifest. Documentation.

I decided to provide the simplest possible example to illustrate how it works and also to give you a development environment template to let start building and deploying your own modules without source code. He we go!

Hi there,
I'm discovering IRIS and I need to POC the solution, with a constraint: containerization.
I'm used to deploy my apps in a Swarm cluster, and all my bind volumes are written on a GlusterFS volume.
The problem here, when I start my stack, the first log is:
[WARN] ISC_DATA_DIRECTORY is located on a mount of type 'fuse.glusterfs' which is not supported, consider a named volume for '/iris_conf'
And of course the deployment fails.
Any idea?

Say I want to uninstall the IKO - all I need to do is:

> helm uninstall intersystems

What happens behind the scenes is that helm will uninstall what was installed when you ran :

> helm install intersystems <relative/path/to/iris-operator>

In some sense - this is symmetric to when we ran install - however with a different image.

You'll notice that when you install, it knows what image to take from:

operator:
  registry: containers.intersystems.com
  repository: intersystems/iris-operator-amd
  tag: 3.7.13.100

For uninstall the image to take note of is:

cleaner:
  registry: appscode
  repository:

In this article, we will cover below topics:

• What is Kubernetes?
• Main Kubernetes (K8s) Components

What is Kubernetes?

Kubernetes is an open-source container orchestration framework developed by Google. In essence, it controls container speed and helps you manage applications consisting of multiple containers. Additionally, it allows you to operate them in different environments, e.g., physical machines, virtual machines, Cloud environments, or even hybrid deployment environments.

What problems does it solve?

The emergence of containerization in microservices technology has given rise to

In the settings of the IRIS web application configuration page there is an option "Redirect empty path" which allows a user to access REST endpoint URL without trailing slash, eg. /csp/api/rest instead of /csp/api/rest/. How could I change this option declaratively in my ZPM manifest?

In case you're planning on deploying IRIS For Health, or any of our containerized products, via the IKO on OpenShift, I wanted to share some of the hurdles we had to overcome.

As with any IKO based installation, we first need to deploy the IKO itself. However we were getting this error:

Warning FailedCreate 75s (x16 over 3m59s) replicaset-controller Error creating: pods "intersystems-iris-operator-amd-f6757dcc-" is forbidden: unable to validate against any security context constraint:

proceeded by a list of all the security context constraints (SCCs) it could not validate against.

If you're like

Your may not realize it, but your InterSystems Login Account can be used to access a very wide array of InterSystems services to help you learn and use InterSystems IRIS and other InterSystems technologies more effectively.  Continue reading to learn more about how to unlock new technical knowledge and tools using your InterSystems Login account.  Also - after reading, please participate in the Poll at the bottom, so we can see how this article was useful to you!

What is an InterSystems Login Account? 

An InterSystems Login account is used to access various online services which serve

ZPM is a package manager designed for convenient deployment of applications and modules on the IRIS platform.

Module developers, in order for their module to be installed using ZPM, need to follow a series of simple steps.

• Write module code
• Create a module.xml file that contains the meta description of the module
• Using the test registry, publish the module, verify that it is published
• Install the module from the test registry
• Publish the module. To publish in the public registry pm.community.intersystems.com, you need to publish the module in https://openexchange.intersystems.com, specifying

I am often asked by customers, vendors or internal teams to explain CPU capacity planning for large production databases running on VMware vSphere.

This post was originally written in 2017, I am updating the post in February 2026.

I am trying to execute a program from within cache using a $zf call

S X=$ZF(-1,"C:\""Program Files (x86)""\Car-Part\Messaging\iCPM.exe")

For the sake of this post I changed it to open notepad

S X=$ZF(-1,"C:\Windows\notepad.exe")

If I call it directly from terminal notepad opens and all is happy.  

If I add it to a program we use to run certain tasks once an hour or even every 10 minutes it will fire off notepad but it will be in the background.

The messaging application we use will not work at all in the background and needs to be in the foreground.  

I have tried everything myself and 3 other

InterSystems FAQ rubric

For routines (*.mac)

You can hide the source by exporting/importing only the *.obj that is generated after compiling the source program.

The command execution example specifies EX1Sample.obj and EX2Sample.obj, which are generated by compiling EX1Sample.mac and EX2Sample.mac, as export targets and exports them to the second argument file.

After moving to another namespace, I am using the exported XML file to perform the import.

USER>do$system.OBJ.Export("EX1Sample.obj,EX2Sample.obj","D:\routine.xml")       
Exporting to XML started on 10/23/202311:33:49
Exporting object

Hi,

I am trying to use the %Net.HttpRequest Class, and the request has to pass through a proxy server that requires authentication.

I am usually able to do that by using the following code:

S httprequest.ProxyServer=proxyServer
S httprequest.ProxyPort=proxyPort
S httprequest.ProxyAuthorization="Basic xyzxyzxyz"
 

I have a problem accessing a site that is accessible only using SSL-

The combination of the proxy authentication code and the SSL code-

S httprequest.Https=1
S httprequest.SSLConfiguration = "XYZ"
S httprequest.ProxyHTTPS=1
 

Does not work- I get the following error:

"<WRITE>zSend+180^%Net.HttpRequ

Hello! I just had a quick question for anyone out there with more experience on deploying Ensemble productions.

I'm currently trying to export my Ensemble production WITH the Business Partners so I don't have to rebuild or add to that table after I import my Ensemble Production. I know that this is a small thing and doesn't actually affect anything in the production in terms of performance, but I like to have it for better documentation.

I've tried including it in my export, but I'm unable to find it and I'm wondering if there is something obvious that I'm missing?

Using the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL2), is it possible to install IRIS and run it from there? I am wanting to test IAM, but unable to run Docker Desktop on my VM, and do not have access to a Linux machine to install and test with.

Thanks

Scott

We have some custom tools that do project based deployment from environment to environment. In VS Code, we're struggling to find the best way to export PRJ files that contain the contents of a project the way we were able to in Studio. We can edit existing projects, and in server side editing we can create projects, but we can't seem to extract the project files (Not the classes, the wrapper) to store in our source control solution for deployment purposes.

I realize that a transition to ZPM would potentially render project files in this way unnecessary, but we're not there yet.

Hi all! I just wanted to share a new video – the first in a series of three – addressing the migration from the InterSystems Private Web Server to an external web server. This video covers the process of installing a web server and upgrading your IRIS instance in a Linux/Unix environment. Two more videos on the way will show the process for a mirrored setup in Linux/Unix, and for a single instance in Windows. 

REST API for Security Package

Hi community,

In this article, we will learn how to set up a REST API for the IRIS Security Package. We will be able to create users, roles, add applications, etc... by simple HTTP requests as well as generate a client application in ObjectScript.

Requirements

We need :

1. An IRIS instance (installation kit or docker).
2. ObjectScript package manager (ZPM).
3. (Optional) A second IRIS instance to generate an ObjectScript client.

We will use a set of existing applications and libraries on OpenExchange.

Looking for advice on best practise (or at least reasonable approaches) for handling the Production class when utilising source control. (And perhaps wider advice around deployment.)

Scenario: a production server, a UAT test server, a connected development server plus multiple local development servers.

I am running into an error trying to send an Alert Email to test the functionality of IRIS HealthShare Health Connect  2022.1 compared to Cache HealthShare Health Connect 2018.1.3. I was trying to send an Alert email, when I am getting the following error on my EMailAlert operation which is using EnsLib.EMail.OutboundAdpater.

I verified the message to the EMailAlert was populated, so what could be throwing this error...

I found the problem to be with osuwmc.AlertEmail that was created to

When you install an IRIS or Caché instance on Windows Server, you'll usually need to install it under a specific user account that has network access permissions. This is very handy when you needs to access network resources for creating files or directly accessing printers.

TL;DR: see key takeaways at the bottom!

When you need to change the Windows user account the IRIS/Caché service is running as, you can configure (after installation):

• for IRIS (also see the docs): 

  <install-dir>\bin\IRISinstall.exe setserviceusername <instance-name> <username> <password>

• for Caché (also see the docs and

Does anyone happen to have a sample Configuration (CPF) Merge file that includes Action parameters setting up authentication methods (e.g. Password, Kerberos) for certain Services and Web Applications (e.g. via the ModifyService or Modify/CreateApplication AutheEnabled property)?

Thanks!