#InterSystems Ideas Portal

Hi Community!

Welcome to Issue #26 of the InterSystems Ideas newsletter! Let's look at the latest news from the Ideas Portal, such as:

✓ General Statistics
✓ Recently implemented ideas by InterSystems
✓ Recently implemented ideas by Developer Community members

Hi Community,

We’d like to remind everyone of the value your feedback and observations bring to improving InterSystems products. Our customer support is world-famous, but if you're not a formal customer yet it can be confusing how to engage with us. We have now filled that gap.

Every time you notice an issue - whether it’s a broken feature, a UI glitch, or something that just doesn’t work as expected - the Ideas Portal is now also the way to submit bug reports.

***REMEMBER: If you have access to WRC, please submit the report via WRC as usual!***

Here’s how it works:

1. Go to the Ideas Portal and click Add a new idea

2. Provide the title, short description, choose “Bug reports” in the category field, and click Next

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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Hi Community,

With the General Availability of the 2025.3 release of InterSystems IRIS® data platform, InterSystems IRIS® for Health™, and HealthShare® Health Connect, we are now collecting your ideas for improvement. 

If the new release inspired you or highlighted opportunities to enhance the developer experience, please share your suggestions on the InterSystems Ideas Portal - every idea is reviewed by our product teams and can influence future releases.

Here are the technology bonuses for the InterSystems "Bringing Ideas to Reality" Contest 2025 that will give you extra points in the voting:

• Developer Experience Idea implemented - 4
• IRIS Vector Search usage -3
• Embedded Python usage -3
• InterSystems Interoperability - 3
• InterSystems IRIS BI - 3
• VSCode Plugin - 3
• FHIR Tools - 3
• Docker container usage -2 
• ZPM Package Deployment - 2
• Online Demo -2 
• Find and report a bug - 2
• Article on Developer Community - 2
• The second article on Developer Community - 1
• Video on YouTube - 3
• YouTube Short - 1
• First Time Contribution - 3

See the details below.

Hi Community!

We’re excited to announce a brand-new sweepstakes. This time, the theme is: 

💡 Initial Developer Experience 💡

We want to hear your thoughts on how we can make the very first steps with InterSystems technologies smoother, clearer, and more inspiring. Whether it’s documentation, onboarding, setup, or tutorials, your ideas can make a real difference!

Folks!

Recently I found several one-line long ObjectScript commands on DC and think that it'd be great not to lose it and to collect more!

So I decided to gather a few first cases, put in one OEX project, and share them with you!

And here is how you can use them.

1. Create client SSL configuration.

set $namespace="%SYS", name="DefaultSSL" do:'##class(Security.SSLConfigs).Exists(name) ##class(Security.SSLConfigs).Create(name)

Useful if you need to read content from an URL.

Don't forget to return to a previous namespace. Or add 

n $namespace

before the call.

If you have already built unit tests using the %UnitTest framework, or are thinking about doing so, please take a look at InterSystems Testing Manager.

Without leaving VS Code you can now browse your unit tests, run or debug them, and view previous run results.

InterSystems Testing Manager works with both of the source code location paradigms supported by the ObjectScript extension. Your unit test classes can either be mastered in VS Code's local filesystem (the 'client-side editing' paradigm) or in a server namespace ('server-side editing').

Hi Community!

Welcome to Issue #25 of the InterSystems Ideas newsletter! Let's look at the latest news from the Ideas Portal, such as:

✓ General Statistics
✓ Recently added Community Opportunity ideas

Hi Community!

Welcome to Issue #24 of the InterSystems Ideas newsletter! Let's look at the latest news from the Ideas Portal, such as:

✓ General Statistics
✓ Recently implemented ideas by InterSystems
✓ Recently implemented ideas by Developer Community members

Hi Community!

Our 💡 InterSystems Ideas Contest 💡 has come to an end. 26 new ideas that followed the required structure were accepted into the contest! 

They all focus on improving InterSystems IRIS and related products, highlighting tangible benefits for developers once the ideas are implemented.

And now let's announce the winners... 

Hi Community!

Welcome to Issue #23 of the InterSystems Ideas newsletter! These have been very busy two months, so let's look at the latest news from the Ideas Portal, such as:

✓ General Statistics
✓ Results of InterSystems Ideas Contest
✓ Community Opportunity Ideas

Hi InterSystems Community! I'm Sidd one of the interns at the Singapore office and I recently had the chance to develop to develop a driver to connect IRIS to Metabase to help some of the Sales Engineers here. I was encouraged to share it here so that if any others have a similar issue they can use the driver and as well as get some feedback on potential improvements. The full GitHub repo with the quick start step, brief overview and the driver building process can be found here.

Hello Community,

We're thrilled to invite all our Developer Community members (both InterSystems employees and not) to participate in our next contest!

💡 The 4th InterSystems Ideas Contest 💡

We're looking for your innovative ideas to enhance InterSystems IRIS and related products and services. We encourage suggestions based on real-life use cases, highlighting the tangible benefits your idea will bring to other users and how it will enhance developers' experiences with InterSystems technology.

📅 Duration: June 9 - July 20, 2025

🏆 Prizes for the best ideas and a random draw!

🎁 Gifts for everyone: A special gift will be given to each author whose idea is accepted in the contest.

>> SUBMIT AN IDEA <<

Hi Developers!

There is a free ObjectScriptQuality tool for ObjectScript developers who upload solutions on GitHub. This tool helps developers validate ObjectScript code using a variety of rules, based on common code errors.

There are currently 16 rules in this tool, but there are definitely many more rules to consider when testing ObjectScript code.

Could you suggest any other rules to add to this tool?

Note: You can submit it as an idea on the InterSystems Ideas for the 2nd Idea-A-Thon contest.

Hi Community!

Welcome to Issue #22 of the InterSystems Ideas newsletter! This edition highlights the latest news from the Ideas Portal, such as:

✓ General Statistics
✓ Recently implemented ideas
✓ New features

Hi Community!

Welcome to Issue #21 of the InterSystems Ideas newsletter! This edition highlights the latest news from the Ideas Portal, such as:

✓ General statistics
✓ Community Opportunity ideas

Hi Community,

I would like to present my last package OpenAPI-Suite, this is a set of tools to generate ObjectScript code from an OpenAPI specification version 3.0.  In short, these packages allow to: 

• Generate server-side class.  It’s pretty similar to the generated code by ^%REST but the added value is the version 3.0 support.
• Generate HTTP client classes.
• Generate client production (business services, business operation, business process, Ens.Request, Ens.Response) classes.
• A web interface to generate and download the code or generate and compile directly on the server.
• Convert specification from version 1.x, 2.x to version 3.0.

Hi Community!

Welcome to Issue #20 of the InterSystems Ideas newsletter! This edition highlights the latest news from the Ideas Portal, such as:

✓ General statistics
✓ Results of the "DC search" sweepstakes
✓ DC search ideas to vote for

Once upon a time in Ensemble Management Portal the pool size of each component (Business Host) within the production was displayed in the Production Configuration page.

This information was very useful, especially when a production have tens or hundreds of components.

Now days the pool size is no longer displayed in the Production Configuration page and to get the pool size you need to click in each and every host in your production.
What if you have hundreds of business hosts and you need to check the pool size of each? It's a nightmare!

Hello there 🙋‍♂️,

I'm looking towards a functionality alike Python's difflib, but made with Intersystems products. I already know could embed Python code within IRIS but thought maybe there was a development already done for handling deltas, with a different approach or extra utils.

Even if I find such a library after comparing both might still go with difflib or any other more suitable. Intend to use it for a cross-environment checklist/check tool.

Please find below a sample of HTML rendering computed and made with difflib, with a few lines of code:

thanks ! best regards,  

Hi Community!

Because our previous sweepstakes was such a blast, we've decided to do a repeat performance 😉 And this time, the topic of our sweepstakes is 

🔎 DC search 🔍

We think you might have a few suggestions on how we can improve our search engine, and we would absolutely love to hear from you!

Hi Community!

Welcome to Issue #19 of the InterSystems Ideas newsletter! This edition highlights the latest news from the Ideas Portal, such as:

✓ General statistics
✓ New "DC search" sweepstakes
✓ New ideas to support

Hi Community!

We hope you know that when you have an interesting idea about InterSystems products or services, you should publish it on the Ideas Portal. And those Developer Community members who implement the proposed ideas are added to the "Hall of Fame". Want to get accepted to the InterSystems Ideas Hall of Fame? Read on to learn how you can get on the list.

Hi Developers!

Welcome to Issue #18 of the InterSystems Ideas newsletter! This edition highlights the latest implemented ideas:

✓ Ideas brought to life during the "Bringing Ideas to Reality" programming contest
✓ Ideas implemented by InterSystems in Q4 2024
✓ New article featuring an idea realized by the talented Musketeers team