#Globals

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Globals are multidimensional sparse arrays which are stored in InterSystems Data Platform. Everything in InterSystems Products is stored in Globals: Classes, Tables, Documents, Code.

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Question Robert Hanna · Aug 23, 2019

Hi all, 

I am trying to create a method to count the number of entries in a global, including all subscripts. I am having a bit of trouble getting the code to make it to the second subscript. When I get to the position where my key is "Canada" and I add a comma and empty quotes to it, it returns USA as the new key when I do the order function. Is the $Order or the global not able to use a single string to represent multiple subscripts?

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Question Rathinakumar S · Jul 26, 2023

Hi,

We have a global with 65 million entries. All we are doing is just iterating through each entry to find out the total no of entries. It is currently taking 110 minutes. Is this something normal? What can we do to speed up this process? Below is the program for just iterating each entry in the global.

s sub=" ,count=0
f{              
     s sub=$o(^YYY(sub)) q:sub=""
     s count= count +1
     }
     w!, "Total Count:"_ count
 

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Question Evgeny Shvarov · Jun 5, 2025

Hi IRIS experts!

I have a parameter in a class that stores a global name:

Parameter GlobalName = "^AGlobal";

then I'm trying to call it as:

set gn=$name(..#GlobalName)

to use it later as:

set @gn@("index")="value"

But! I'm having syntax at set gn=$name(..#GlobalName)

What am I doing wrong?

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Question Mark Charlton · Feb 17, 2023

I know this problem something to do with sort and collation and string comparison vs numeric only strings, but I can't fathom out the details of it. 

I have the following global, where all values are suffixed with a space, I believe the intention is to prevent empty strings and force string comparisons rather than numeric. Which is fine when searching for an exact match, so searching for "ABC" internally looks for "ABC ", or "800999" looks for "800999 ". However one function tries to search for strings containing, (specifically beginning with), a partial code.

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Question Keith Davis · May 14, 2019

I am trying to create an ODBC class that includes all of these as records, but I don't see how I can since the first record has 3 subscripts, the rest have 4 subscripts:

 

Here is my current storage definition:

<Storage name="Test">
<ExtentSize>100000</ExtentSize>
<SequenceNumber>25</SequenceNumber>
<SQLMap name="Test">
<Data name="ModificationDate">
<RetrievalCodeset {ModificationDate}={L4}</RetrievalCode>
</Data>
<Data name="Operator">
<Delimiter>":","|"</Delimiter>
<Piece>36,2</Piece>
</Data>
<Data name="CreationDate">
<Delimiter>":",","</Delimiter>
<Piece>24,1</Piece>
</Data>
<Data name="CreationTime">
<D

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Question João Carlos Azevedo · Oct 23, 2023

I need to develop a tool to help to get what data is being consumed by a certain process, in order to get all data used to build an automated test scenario.

For example, some user process will pull data from ^GLOBAL(1)="dataString", ^GLOBAL(2)="dataString2", ^GLOBAL1(1)="data1String", ^GLOBAL2(4)="data2String4". Amidst all other data on these Globals, I will ignore everything that was not used in the user process, and get the specific keys used on it.

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Question Peter Stordiau · Feb 20, 2022

Dear people,

I (really) spent hours on finding the maximum size a Global is allowed to be (for Windows, if that matters). All I seem to run into are database sizes (derived from a max number of blocks and block size), but I refuse to believe that is correct because too small to be realistic. surprise 

It will  undoubtedly my fault that I don't understand or misread the concepts of "database" vs Globals, envisioning files as such while one set of functional Globals in one file (?

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Question Yaniv Ben Malka · Oct 10, 2017

Hi,

I have a class with around 400k lines and 60 columns. Class storage is Cache SQL storage (Mapped from a global).

 I want to create multiple indices on certain fields.

I am familiar with two approaches:

1. Create a new map (Index type) on a pointer global.

2. Create a bitmap index

Which approach is more recommended to be used in the case I described? If there are any other approaches, I will be happy to hear.

Thanks :)

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Question Carl Deitrich · Feb 17

We are attempting to "Repoint" old class data to new class data to save disk space and data redundancy across multiple tables. This works to a point.  In essence the two classes are sharing the same data / Index / stream globals.  But if an ID in the Old_Class is opened, a property is modified, and saved the property that is in the New_Class (but not in the Old_Class) is NULLed / blanked.

Simplified explanation of data and what’s occurring.

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Question Hour Abdellatif · Mar 9

I’m trying to find a way to manage globals from our Java application. We have two separate features:

  • Managing tables normally using SQL

  • Managing globals, since some globals exist without class or table definitions

Cache version : Cache for UNIX (Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86-64) 2016.1.1 (Build 108U_SU), Thu Jul 7 2016 09:39:04 EDT

I tried to retrieve the globals tree, update node values, and append nodes using SQL by calling stored procedures, but I couldn’t find any procedures for adding, updating, or deleting nodes.

I also tried using cacheextreme.jar to access the globals API directly.

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Question Niklas Thilmont · Mar 14, 2022

Hey InterSystems Community!
This is probably far-fetched - is there a way to get notified/get a piece of code triggered whenever the state of a global changes?

Now what could I possibly want with that? Quite simple! I would like to forward the content of a global (in this case the "FSLog" global written by the FHIR implementation) while adding timestamps to it - to create some sort of file-based logging for it.

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Question Hour Abdellatif · Jan 26

Hello everyone,

My team lead mentioned that users can sometimes create globals directly without associating them with tables or classes. In this case, these globals would not be accessible via SQL.

Is this correct? Can a global exist independently in this way, and if so, is there a specific approach to access or manage them without SQL?

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Question nok nok · Jul 17, 2019

Hi there

Would you please advise how to count how many keys are duplicated in global, for example, Athens was duplicate 3.

Set ^Data("Cambridge") = "1"
 Set ^Data("New York") = "2"
 Set ^Data("Boston") = "3"
 Set ^Data("London") = "4"
 Set ^Data("Athens") = "5"
 Set ^Data("Athens") = "6"
 Set ^Data("Athens") = "7"

Thanks

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Question Florian Hansmann · Aug 3, 2020

Hello Intersystems-Community,

I build an API and there I use $order to get the Data from my Globals.
When I first time use that API it's get an error (504 Gateway-Timout > 60 Sec.).

After 2 reloads it works with a loading time of 2 Sec.! Sounds for me like the $order is cached and it works faster. Is it true $order will be cached?

When it works, I only get the error at the next day. So it's very hard to reproduce that error.

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Question Craig Bishop · Sep 7, 2022

Hello All,

I have a class method on the DocRepo server that needs to query the data value of a global variable on the Edge server. 

I have looked at the documentation for 'Global Structure,' but I didn't find anything that helped.

Global Structure | Using Globals | InterSystems IRIS Data Platform 2022.1
 

I am able to access this global easily from the Edge server using the $Get function, but I need to access it from the DocRepo server.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks!

Craig

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Question Mack Altman · Jan 6, 2017

Currently, we have an application running in one namespace ("Database B") that has globals and routines mapped to another database ("Database A"). After enforcing clean up on Database A, we found that 90% of the disk is free. We would like to compact Database A and release the unused space. However, we are running OpenVMS, which seems to be the issue.

For databases consisting of only globals, we are able to use ^GBLOCKCOPY; however, we need to ensure that the routines and mappings are also copied.

What would be the best recommended way to do this?

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Question Bransen Smith · Oct 1, 2024

I have the class ConfigUtils.ConfigSettingsTable, which is a persistent object.  I know I need to map packages from the original namespace. In this case, I have mapped ConfigUtils.ConfigSettingsTable from the originating namespace (IRISTST database) across all other namespaces.

With this, I am able to see the table ConfigUtils.InstanceSettings in SQL Explorer in each namespace, but the same data is not shared across environments. For example, in the MAINTENANCE namespace, I can see the table, but I don't see the same information that I see in the table in the original IRISTST namespace.

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Question Evgeny Shvarov · Apr 1, 2017

Hi, Community!

Is there an option to get an archived file of globals in one command. Say for:

Do $System.OBJ.Export("Class1*D.GBL,Class2*D.GBL","data_gbl.xml")

get something like:

Do $System.OBJ.Export("Data*D.GBL","data_gbl.gz","gzip")

And also to have the convenient one click way to  import it to the namespace via terminal or Control Panel?

If anyone already has this module, share please?

It would be very convenient for import/export/continuous integration purposes cause globals can be really heavy.

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Question AndreClaude Gendron · Apr 19, 2016

We are trying to create a simple class extending %RegisteredObject that could be used as a singleton. However we are not able to store it in a global to later be retrieved (by the same process but elsewhere in the code).

I resumed my issue in this small code sample : 

ClassMethod RunMe()
{
   // Create a simple %RegisteredObject
   set obj = ##class(%ZEN.proxyObject).%New()
   set obj.MyProp = 22
   do ##class(%SYSTEM.OBJ).Dump(obj)
   
   // Store it in a global
   set ^MyGlobalName = obj
   write "Stored : " _ obj,!!
      
   // Retrieve it from the global
   #Dim obj2 As %ZEN

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