#Global Masters

Hi Community!

We're pleased to invite all DC members to the InterSystems Global Masters Gamification Platform to get points and prizes for your contribution to the Community, learn with selected content about InterSystems technology, network with your peers and have fun!

▶️  What is Global Masters?

Global Masters is a gamification platform, where you learn technology, complete tech quizzes, watch videos, etc. You will be completing challenges (tasks) related to ISC technology, earning badges & points, and exchanging points for a variety of rewards.

Hi Community! 👋
As 2026 gets underway, we’d love to hear what you’re focusing on this year.

This discussion is a space to share your resolutions, goals, and focus areas for 2026 - technical, professional or community-related.

These don’t have to be traditional New Year’s resolutions. Think of them as intentions or priorities you’d like to work on this year.

💬 What you can share

• Skills or technologies you want to learn
• Projects you want to start or continue
• Things you want to improve at work
• Events or activities you want to take part in
• Anything you’re excited to focus on in 2026

@Admin GlobalMasters 

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Hi Community! 👋

You’ve asked for easier ways to connect with other Global Masters and we heard you!
Random Coffee Chat is an easy way for Global Masters to connect and have an informal 1:1 conversation. ☕

🗓 When: January 26 – February 15

This thread is for participants in Europe & UK time zones who’d like to connect and schedule a short coffee chat directly with each other.
 
☕ How it works

• Leave a comment in this thread to join
• Reply to someone’s comment if you’d like to connect
• Continue the conversation in Direct Messages on the Developer Community and schedule a 30-minute quick call

Hi Community! 👋

You’ve asked for easier ways to connect with other Global Masters and we heard you!
Random Coffee Chat is an easy way for Global Masters to connect and have an informal 1:1 conversation. ☕

🗓 When: January 26 – February 15

This thread is for participants based in Asia, Australia and New Zealand who’d like to connect and schedule a short coffee chat directly with each other.
 
☕ How it works

• Leave a comment in this thread to join
• Reply to someone’s comment if you’d like to connect
• Continue the conversation in Direct Messages and schedule a 30-minute quick call

It’s no secret that the InterSystems Global Masters program is integrated with Developer Community, Open Exchange, and Ideas Portal. Whenever you contribute to any of these platforms, you automatically earn points and badges on Global Masters. 

We’ve created a short guide to help you discover the best ways to earn points on Global Masters:

Hi Community! 👋

You’ve asked for easier ways to connect with other Global Masters and we heard you!
Random Coffee Chat is an easy way for Global Masters to connect and have an informal 1:1 conversation. ☕

🗓 When: January 26 – February 15

This thread is for participants based in North, Central, and South America who’d like to connect and schedule a short coffee chat directly with each other.
 
☕ How it works

• Leave a comment in this thread to join
• Reply to someone’s comment if you’d like to connect
• Continue the conversation in Direct Messages and schedule a 30-minute quick call

Hi Community!

Starting from January 2026, developers who turn product ideas from the Ideas Portal into real, working solutions with be awarded with 7,000 points on Global Masters and a badge.

✨ What you get:
🧙‍♂️ Idea to Reality Wizard badge — awarded once to community members who implement a product idea suggested at the Ideas Portal
⭐ 7,000 Global Masters points — awarded for every implemented idea from the "Community Opportunity" list.
 

Details: 

As part of our holiday journey, it’s time to add a little cozy, fun energy to the community ✨
Welcome to the Holiday Jumper Challenge 🧣🎁

How to join:

✅ Share one festive photo in this thread. This can be:

• you in a holiday jumper or sweater (selfies are optional, if you are not comfortable sharing!)
• your desk / office / house decorations / tree or any cozy seasonal setup

✅ Get 50 points for participating (we will award manually on Global Masters) 🎁
Best photo win 100 extra points!
Let’s light up this thread with some cozy holiday vibe🎄💻

⬇️ Share your photo below! 

New contest — new chance to earn points on Global Masters!

7,000 points for each walkthrough video submission 🧐

What this is about:
We're looking for feedback on the Interoperability UI in the latest release, 2025.3.
You can check what's new in this recent announcement by @Aya Heshmat 
How to take part: 

Keywords:  Vibe coding, Windsurf, IRIS, TIE

Why not?   "Vibe coding" is never about the vibe!

Has anyone not been trying "vibe coding" so far?

Even merely 3 years ago, if anyone asked

• "Could I do IRIS implementation for NHS TIE in English or Spanish or just Chinese ?", or
• "Can I just instruct TIE in English to build itself an e2e route, to pick up a PDF report then turn into ORU/MDM message and submit into the PAS ?", or
• "Could we query IRIS database in English only, and build up dashboard or ad hoc report of my own by English instructions?"

Let’s spotlight the brilliant authors and contributors of our November Article Bounty! 💙
Thank you to everyone who took part and shared their knowledge with the community.

A special shout-out goes to those who created brand-new articles and contributed their expertise — each received 5,000 points 🎉

@Zion Amsalem -- "Consuming REST-APIs for dummies (beginner-friendly)"
@Robert Cemper -- "Network Debugging for Beginners - 1"
@Iryna Mykhailova -- "Connecting C# to InterSystems IRIS via ODBC"
@Vachan C Rannore -- "My experience with APIs and POS integration."
@Padmaja Konduru -- "Production Terminal Commands"

Hi Community!

Black Friday is here and this year, it’s all about discovering the best deals on Global Masters! Complete a short set of fun challenges, learn a few new things and collect extra points along the way.

From November 20 to November 30, joinour Black Friday adventure: Find your deal on Global Masters.
 
🎯 During this period only:

• All asks which have a black cover will award double points during this period
• Inviting new Developer Community members through the Referral Program will also give 2× points when the invitee registers on DC.
• Everyone who completes the Black Friday journey will enter the raffle for a special prize - Prixton 1080P Matisse Mini Projector! 🎁

Don’t miss your chance! The Black Friday hunt ends November 30.

Terminal Commands for Production:

• Production Start, Stop, Update, Recover and Clean Production

Do ##class(Ens.Director).StartProduction(“ProductionName”)

Do ##class(Ens.Director).StopProduction()

Do ##class(Ens.Director).UpdateProduction()

Do ##class(Ens.Director).RecoverProduction()

Do ##class(Ens.Director).CleanProduction()

Abort Messages in the queue:

               d ##class(Ens.Queue).AbortQueue(“Component Name”)

Get InstanceName :

              W !,##class(%SYS.System).GetUniqueInstanceName()

Get Node Name:

              W  !,##class(%SYS.System).GetNodeName()

Terminate JobId :

🚀 We’re excited to share that InterSystems is once again joining Hack Jak Brno 2025. 
📅 Event dates: 28 - 30 November 2025
📍 Location: Masaryk University in Brno
🔗 Learn more and register at www.hackjakbrno.cz 🚀

Hey! November Article Bounty is live on Global Masters! 🍁🚀

Share your expertise by writing a brand-new article on one of the topics and get 🏆 5,000 points when it’s approved! 🎉

Here’s the list of October topics:

Let’s shine a light on the amazing authors and contributors of our October Article Bounty! 💙
Huge thanks to everyone who joined in and shared their knowledge.

A special mention goes to those who created brand-new articles and shared their expertise — each received 5,000 points 🎉

1. @Robert Cemper >> "Sample for Beginners with Streams in IRIS"
2. @Vachan C Rannore >> "What I’ve Learned from Multiple Data Migrations"
3. @Harshitha  >> "Tips on handling Large data"
And also to those who joined the challenge and helped us in the search for interesting articles (each received 30 points 🙌):

Hi Community! 

On Global Masters, we’ve prepared a brand-new Halloween journey for you 🎃

Step into the role of a lead engineer at PumpkinOps and uncover what’s haunting the system.
Complete the investigation steps, stabilize the release, and earn up to 120 points for your work.

Finish all tasks before November 3 to receive 50 bonus points!⚡️

👉Click here to Start Investigation

Starting out with ObjectScript, it is really exciting, but it can also feel a little unusual if you're used to other languages. Many beginners trip over the same hurdles, so here are a few "gotchas" you'll want to watch out for. (Also few friendly tips to avoid them)

NAMING THINGS RANDOMLY

We have all been guilty of naming something Test1 or MyClass just to move on quickly. But once your project grows, these names become a nightmare. 

➡ Pick clear, consistent names from the start. Think of it as leaving breadcrumbs for your future self and your teammates.

MIXING UP GLOBALS AND VARIABLES

Summer is coming to an end, and we’re sure you had plenty of highlights! ✨

Maybe you learned something valuable, got yourself a reward on Global Masters, or even joined READY 2025 🎉

Here’s a quick checklist — but you can, of course, share anything else about your summer in the comments. Photos are more than welcome 📸

• Went to the sea or a lake
• Hiked/enjoyed nature
• Traveled somewhere new
• Attended a concert or festival
• Watched a movie or series
• Read a book
• Earned points and redeemed a reward on Global Masters 🏆
• Joined READY 2025 🎉
• Spent time with family or friends

You’ve probably already seen that the October Article Bountyis live on Global Masters! 🍁🚀

Submit a brand-new article on one of the announced topics and earn a bounty of 🏆 5,000 Global Masters points once it’s approved! 🎉

Here’s the list of October topics:

1. Comparison of when direct access via global is faster than access via class/SQL
2. A comparison matrix of connectivity methods to InterSystems IRIS to help developers choose the best option for their use case
3. Monitoring and Observability in InterSystems IRIS (with Dashboards & Tools) Guides
4. Beginner’s Guide: Using SQL in InterSystems IRIS
5. Unit Tests Tutorials
6. Practical code examples for ObjectScript Beginners
7. Securing Your InterSystems IRIS Deployment with SSL/TLS: Configuration Tips & Gotchas
8. Large Data handling
9. JSON transformations in DTL (Data Transformation Language)
10. Working with Stream Objects in InterSystems IRIS
11. Best Practices for Data Migration in InterSystems IRIS (Guide / Tips)

Rules to follow: 

It’s time to bring some spotlight to the authors and participants of our September Article Bounty! A big thank-you to everyone who took part💙

Special shout-out to those who took the time to write brand-new articles and share their expertise (each received 5,000 points 🎉):

@Robert Cemper >> "IRIS in Docker for beginners"
@sween  >> "IKO Plus: Stretched Cross Regional IrisCluster with Tailscale on Google Cloud Platform"
@Ariel Glikman >> "High Availability IAM"
@Pietro Di Leo >> "Running InterSystems IRIS with Docker: A Step-by-Step Guide - Part 1: From the Basics to Custom Dockerfile"
@Guilherme Tonelotti  >> "Create a JDBC connection with Mysql Cache"
@Vachan C Rannore >> "From "Oops" to "Aha!" - Avoiding Beginner Mistakes in ObjectScript"

And also to those who joined the challenge and helped us in the search for interesting articles (each received 30 points 🙌):

The utility returns the desired values from the text and display the multiple values if exists based on starting and ending string.

Class Test.Utility.FunctionSet Extends %RegisteredObject
{

/// W !,##class(Test.Utility.FunctionSet).ExtractValues("Some random text VALUE=12345; some other VALUE=2345; more text VALUE=345678;","VALUE=",";")
 

Hi Community!

🍂 Autumn Rewards Are Here on Global Masters!

Step into the season with our fresh new rewards - it’s the perfect time to explore the Rewards section and claim your favorites!

Remember, prize availability varies by region, so be sure to check what’s on offer for your location.

Don’t miss out on these seasonal treats!

Not a Global Masters member yet? Join here using your InterSystems SSO credentials.

You’ve probably already seen that the September Article Bounty is in full swing! 🚀

You can either submit an existing up-to-date article on one of the topics and earn 30 points,
or write a brand-new article from scratch and get a bounty of 🏆 5,000 points once it’s approved! 🎉

August was an inspiring month for our Community 🙌

A huge thank you to all who joined the August Article Bounty 💙

Your contributions keep our knowledge base growing and make it easier for others to learn, solve problems, and get inspired.

Special shout-out to those who took the time to write brand-new articles and share their expertise (each received 5,000 points 🎉):

Hi Everyone,

So after @Ariel Glikman posted a custom operation example, I'm stuck on another dilemma, and here it is:

Hey, Developer Community!

We’ve launched a brand-new activity on Global Masters — the Article Bounty!
It’s your chance to share your expertise, help fellow developers, and, of course, earn points while doing it.

👉 Join the August Article Bounty on Global Masters here

Earlier, we launched the Submit an Article Idea challenge — where Global Masters members could suggest new articles, tutorials, how-tos, and more. We received an overwhelming number of fantastic ideas! 
👉  Now, once a month, we’ll publish a list of 10 in-demand topics requested by the community.
You can choose a topic from the list, write an article about it, and earn bounty of 🏆 5,000 points when the article is approved.

Hi Community!

Here you will find info about badges of the Developer Community & InterSystems Global Masters Advocacy Hub, and the complete list of badges with descriptions on how to get them. 

Please note: our current vendor doesn't have Levels functionality yet, but we are working on bringing it back.