Globals are multidimensional sparse arrays which are stored in InterSystems Data Platform. Everything in InterSystems Products is stored in Globals: Classes, Tables, Documents, Code.
This is a coding example working on IRIS 2020.1 and on Caché 2018.1.3
It will not be kept in sync with new versions
It is also NOT serviced by InterSystems Support !
Every now and then you may encounter a situation where for various reasons ODBC is the only option to access a remote system. Which is sufficient as long as you need to examine or change tables. But you can't directly execute some commands or change some Global.
Special thanks @Anna Golitsyna for inspiring me to publish this.
I have this question for a long time. When I make an insert by SQL from an external application in the fields of type %String, if they are empty, it writes the character $c(0) in the global.
Is there a way so that if an Insert is received in a field of type% String with null value instead of the $ c (0) it leaves it empty?:
If a global node contains special characters, (eg : a line returns), it will be displayed like this in Portal ("System > Globals > View Global Data" panel) :
^A(1) = "this is"_$c(13,10)_"a test"
I would like to export global data to a txt file using a similar format.
I already wrote the main code (that loops on all nodes and dump them to file), the problem is how to handle special characters. For the moment I replace them manually one by one. It works, but it's far from perfect :
I have a number of globals I want to loop through depending on a passed in string...
^A("SYSTEM")
^B("SYSTEM")
^C("SYSTEM")
^D("SYSTEM")
^E("SYSTEM")
I am passing in a string of "A:C:D"
Piecing that to pull out A,C,D, then want to use that to pull out A,C,D from above, but having problems setting the name of the global to be the name of the variable I have pulled out of the string
We are using CACHE 2017.2.1, I would like to retrieve data from Journal for killed global. Let say we have global name ^ EMP(123) with data and also have some child nodes and it has been killed by using cache kill command for some reason and we don't know who has executed this and when. My questions are below.
1) Can we get back the data of killed global from journal files,Is it possible or not ?
We are using Ensemble and I added some debug logging that writes to a global and recompiled the class in Studio. However, when we send messages, the global is not populated. I have recompiled, removing the checkmark to keep the generated code so that there is only one .INT file and I verified that the code is present in the .INT file.
My question is, do we need to stop and restart the Ensemble production in order for these changes to take effect? Do I need to stop and restart the business operation that calls this piece of code? Is there something else I may have missed?
Those of you that worked already with ECP might know that it operates not only across operating systems, processor technologies (big-little-endian), but also -with limits- across versions in C/E. This cross-version feature also includes IRIS (verified for 2020.1) and C/E (2018.3)
InterSystems IRIS currently limits classes to 999 properties.
But what to do if you need to store more data per object?
This article would answer this question (with the additional cameo of Community Python Gateway and how you can transfer wide datasets into Python).
The answer is very simple actually - InterSystems IRIS currently limits classes to 999 properties, but not to 999 primitives. The property in InterSystems IRIS can be an object with 999 properties and so on - the limit can be easily disregarded.
This is a coding example working on IRIS 2020.1 and on Caché 2018.1.3
It will not be kept in sync with new versions
It is also NOT serviced by InterSystems Support !
In most cases, a global used by default storage has just 1 subscript level that represents the IDKEY. For an index-globals we may see 2 or more subscript levels. Arrays, or parent-child relationships or persistent classes extending a base data class are examples where we see more levels. Though all these globals are quite uniform.
This is a coding example working on IRIS 2020.1 and on Caché 2018.1.3
It will not be kept in sync with new versions
It is also NOT serviced by InterSystems Support !
Globals in Caché / Ensemble / IRIS are normally invisible over SQL access This example shows how to overcome this limit.
This is a coding example working on Caché 2018.1.3 and IRIS 2020.2
It will not be kept in sync with new versions
It is also NOT serviced by InterSystems Support !
During my search for a snapshot of a persistent object, I met a feature that I would like tho share as it could be useful in some special situations. My trigger was to have a before- and an after-image during unit testing.
This is a coding example working on Caché 2018.1.3 and IRIS 2020.2
It will not be kept in sync with new versions
It is also NOT serviced by InterSystems Support !
Standard error logs in IRIS / Caché / Ensemble are written global ^ERRORS. As this piece dates back some decades back to previous millennium its structure is far from the typical SQL storage structures.
The forth in the trilogy, anyone a Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy fan?
If you are looking to breathe new life into an old MUMPS application follow these steps to map your globals to classes and expose all that beautiful data to Objects and SQL.
If the above does not sound familiar to you please start at the beginning with the following:
Looking to breathe new life into an old MUMPS application? Follow these steps to map your existing globals to classes and expose all that beautiful data to Objects and SQL.
Hi folks, It's time now for a Micro Service Demo with a total fresh IRIS Image and an image that you both PULL with docker and run withonly 4 lines of docker commands. June 1st, 2020 - rcc
There is now a compact All-in-1 version available that combines all parts in a single container image. For details see: IRIS-NativeAPI-Nodejs-compact May 24, 2020 - rcc
I have added a simplified installation using Docker, see context May 25, 2020 - rcc
I am writing this article to tell about the application "CRUD-GLOBALS-IRISNATIVEAPI-JAVA" which is developed as part of "InterSystems IRIS Native API programming contest". The intention of this application is to manage the Globals which are in IRIS instance through java program using IRIS Native API. To use this application basic knowledge of CACHE Globals structure is required.
In this application as of now we have options to Create,View Globals and Data Search in Globals. Update and Delete will be added in next releases.
In the first article in this series, we looked at the entity–attribute–value (EAV) model in relational databases, and took a look at the pros and cons of storing those entities, attributes and values in tables. We learned that, despite the benefits of this approach in terms of flexibility, there are some real disadvantages, in particular a basic mismatch between the logical structure of the data and its physical storage, which causes various difficulties.
In the first article in this series, we’ll take a look at the entity–attribute–value (EAV) model in relational databases to see how it’s used and what it’s good for. Then we'll compare the EAV model concepts to globals.
If you define a Persistent Class / Table the class compiler generates for you an appropriate Storage definition. A different option is to define a SQL mapping for an already existing Global storage. This has been excellently explained already in a different series of articles. The Art of Mapping Globals to Classes 1 of 3
Though the access is quite comfortable (in traditional COS sense) there are 2 main restrictions that hurt:
#1) It is not saved to disk unless your application includes code to save it specifically. #2) It cannot be stored in or exposed through SQL tables there are some more I'll show how to overcome these limits
A simple question: View Global Data page shows globals always in ascending subscript order. Very often I need to see latest page, is there any trick for this?
Update: I mean to see last subscripts in Management Portal, not using the code
I like to validate some use cases and have the following question. I am relatively new to IRIS. Perhaps someone can help:
1. I have a global m[x,y,z,f] distributed across multiple sharded instances 2. I know that i can set assign computed SQL expressions to class variables using Objectscript 3. Is there a possibility in Globals API to do the same ? Set f = x + y as a computed expression in the global m[x,y,z,f] ?
a. We would want to use the global API to change f programmatically using code
We would like to store a list into a global. The need is to get the full Web Service's Response Message, because of currently, our Operation sends the message to the Process, whith an empty list:
We have created a copyList which is a clone of the list which is being returned from the web service client:
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