Being interoperable is more and more important nowadays. InterSystems IRIS 2022.1 comes with a new messaging API to communicate with event streaming platforms like Kafka, AWS SQS/SNS, JMS and RabbitMQ.
This article shows how you can connect to Kafka and AWS SQS easily.
We start with a brief discussion of the basic concepts and terms of event streaming platforms. 

Event streaming platforms purpose and common terms

Event streaming platforms like Kafka or AWS SQS are capable to consume a unbound stream of events in a very high frequency and can react to events.

Does anyone have experience with CircleCI or really any automation tool using %UnitTest?

I have built my app and ran my unit test in a Docker container automated by CircleCI.  However, after many of the tests failed I see:

How do you halt out of the IRIS session and return an exit code to the shell?

I have a script in my repo that I pass into IRIS after CircleCI does the code checkout

iris session IRIS < inFile

Am I trying to approach this the wrong way?  Should I be writing test output to a file or something?

Hi,

I encountered a strange issue I just can’t solve and I am running out of ideas. After reading the relevant passages of the documentation, asking the community is my last resort.

The task itself is not complicated at all. I am using an EnsLib.SQL.OutboundAdapter to connect to a MS SQL Server (12.0.6433.1) and execute a simple query. Said query is using a temporary table from which I just can’t select any data afterwards. All I get is this error message: <Ens>ErrNoSQLColumns.

I am trying to use the IRIS connection to connect from our LIS to Health Connect (ENSEMBLE) directly.  You can do this in the same namespace using this:

I ##class(Ens.Director).CreateBusinessService(Ensemble Service Name,.theService)
I theService.ProcessInput(TRAN,.response)

I would like to be able to do the same thing across servers using IRIS connection.  I have the following connection:

                set connection = ##class(%Net.DB.DataSource).CreateConnection(host, port, namespace, user, pwd)
                if 'connection.

Healthcare interoperability is instrumental in improving patient care, decreasing healthcare provider costs, and providing a more accurate picture to providers. However, with so many different systems, data is formatted in many different ways. There are many standards that have been created to try to solve this problem, including HL7v2, HL7v3, and CDA but each one has its drawbacks.

FHIR, or Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources, is a new format for healthcare data that aims at solving these problems.

Hi guys, I'm calling a java method as below:

public static byte[] SM4EncryptJson(byte[] arg0) throws Throwable {

String inJson = "";

try {

//logger.info("Payload :" + arg0);

inJson = new String(arg0);

//logger.info("As String :" + inJson);

EncTarget payload = JSON.parseObject(inJson, EncTarget.class);

return SM4Encrypt(payload.getContent().getBytes(),payload.getSecretKey());

}catch (Exception e){

logger.error("Error encrypting : ", e);

logger.error("Content : " + arg0);

logger.error("As String : " + new String(arg0));

//logger.log(Level.SEVERE, e.

Hi，guys

My client is using IRIS 2021.1 Interoperability and they want to highlight the sessions with unresolved(without resent and completed operations) errors so their maintenance team can have a list of unresolved sessions to check against.

When I'm working on it, it seems to be it is is difficult to decide whether a session have unresolved errors. For example,

in this session, the entry async request is labelled as error after the following dispatches was resent and completed. So it is not correct to decide with the entry.

I've faced a problem that happens while debugging a process in VSCode. It doesn't seem to matter if this is in a container, on my development VM, or against a locally installed version of IRIS. The problem seems to be mostly with X12 Documents.

So, in a debug session, I can dump out a value to the debug console and it loos correct. The same variable in VSCode appears to be some uninitialized memory location.

In the interactive debugger window:

In the Variables Window:

Host Workstation:

It's not all variables, as you can see, and it always seems to to be same garbage values that get populated.

I want to get Mirror Status and copy this report into a file for audit purposes.

I have a Linux servers for IRIS DB with this layout:
LIVETC01           Backup
LIVETC02           Primary
LIVEDR             Async Copy
ARBITER

I understand that this will get me the mirror status
# sudo -u irisowner iris session LIVETC01
LIVETC01:USER>zn "%SYS"
LIVETC01:%SYS>do ^MIRROR

1) Mirror Status
2) Mirror Management
3) Mirror Configuration

Option? 1

1) List mirrored databases
2) Display mirror status of this node
3) Display journal file info
4) Status Monitor

Option?

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I'm glad to share with you my certification:

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This is the fourth in a series of releases that are part of the developer preview program for 2022.2 Future preview releases are expected to be updated biweekly and we will add features as they are ready.  Many updates, fixes and enhancements  have been added in 2022.2, in SQL management, cloud integration, Kafka and JMS adapters, the SQL Loader, and other areas. Please share your feedback through the Developer Community so we can build a better product together.

 The Early Access Program (EAP) is still active for the Columnar Storage.

What are other's thoughts, opinions and experiences going from CSP to RESTful services, specifically when it comes to reusing code in CSP files?

One could define a method in CSP as follows:

<script language="cache" method="SubmitSomethingAwesome" arguments="aswesomeId:%Numeric"> 

And it's generated in csp.mycsppage.cls ascsp.mycsppage.SubmitSomethingAwesome(awesomeId as %Numeric).

Have people had success defining there rest call by calling the generated CSP classmethod?

During a major version upgrade it is advisable to recompile the classes and routines of all your namespaces (see Major Version Post-Installation Tasks).

do $system.OBJ.CompileAllNamespaces("u")

do ##Class(%Routine).CompileAllNamespaces()

To automate this administration task and keep a log of any errors, below is an example of a class to import and compile into the USER namespace that you can use after each upgrade : admin.utils.cls

Class admin.

Your application is deployed and everything is running fine. Great, hi-five! Then out of the blue the phone starts to ring off the hook – it’s users complaining that the application is sometimes ‘slow’. But what does that mean? Sometimes? What tools do you have and what statistics should you be looking at to find and resolve this slowness? Is your system infrastructure up to the task of the user load? What infrastructure design questions should you have asked before you went into production? How can you capacity plan for new hardware with confidence and without over-spec'ing? How can you stop the phone ringing? How could you have stopped it ringing in the first place?

InterSystems Data Platforms and performance - Part 5 Monitoring with SNMP

In previous posts I have shown how it is possible to collect historical performance metrics using pButtons. I go to pButtons first because I know it is installed with every Data Platforms instance (Ensemble, Caché, …). However there are other ways to collect, process and display Caché performance metrics in real time either for simple monitoring or more importantly for much more sophisticated operational analytics and capacity planning.

Hi everyone!

Just wanted to share here a quick post about my project for the Grand Prix :)

FHIR Patient Viewer is a single-page, reactive rendering tool built on Vue.js that displays in a human-friendly way the data returned from a /Patient/{id}/$everything call made to an InterSystems FHIR server. In the readme, I've included 3 main things: 1. A video demo connecting FHIR Patient Viewer to a sandbox IRIS FHIR server (the fastest way to test it); 2.

Hello everyone,

I want to restore a database from an external backup with the journal files.

The manual says I should (in short):

1. Stop journaling with ^JRNSTOP
2. Restore the database file IRIS.DAT
3. Run the journal restore utility with ^JRNRESTO
4. Restart journaling ^JRNSTART

Since I want to restore one database only step 1 would disable journaling for the whole instance, not only for the database to be restored. As I understand, it would be impossible to restore a different database if there occurs a problem while journaling is disabled during the recovery process?

I have successfully created REST service classes on my local IRIS server following this book: Using the /api/mgmnt/ Service | Creating REST Services | InterSystems IRIS Data Platform 2021.2

I am now 1) trying to edit impl.cls in VS Code and 2) export it to my local repo so I can push to the remote repo.

When I click on my project in VS Code and 'Add to project' and choose the new package, spec.cls and impl.cls, I get the following error:

ERROR #5540: SQLCODE: -114 Message: Unable to acquire lock for INSERT of child row for parent table '%Studio.

I have a project that needs to get DSTU2 resources ultimately to CSV files.  My thought was if I could get there Resources to R4 I could use the FHIR SQL builder to help map the data.  Anyone have ideas?  Maybe DSTU2 to SDA to R4... 

Hi:

Had an issue after upgrading to 2021.1 where search bar for interoability will bring up "INVALID ACTION". 

On upgrading to 2022.1 this still occurs. 

It did not occur on another environement that was upgraded from 2017.2 straight to 2022.1 

Is there any solution? Loads up SYS in url rather than customnamespacename

Issue is the url for instance brings through ip/csp/sys/EnsPortal.DTLEditor.zen?$NAMESPACE=X 

ip/csp/healthshare/customnamespace/EnsPortal.DTLEditor.zen?$NAMESPACE=X

I encountered this before and forget if there was a solution for this

We have a downstream application that cannot accept more than 500 messages at a time. They want to restrict the number of messages being sent to them at a time.

Hey Developers,

Learn the basics of HL7® V2 message management in InterSystems IRIS for Health™:

⏯ Introduction to HL7 V2 Integrations in InterSystems IRIS for Health

How do I access items and their settings of production by using Objectscript? I have already tried making SQL queries to Ens_Config.Production table and using methods in Ens.Director and EnsPortal.Utils classes but I just can't get a hang of it.

The unfortunate reason, why I need to do this, is that our environments (DEV, QA and PROD) have gone in really bad shape over the years and now the software development is just pure agony since environments are not in sync. Comparing different environments is also extremely difficult since it is hard to even tell which classes are in use.

Good morning. Perhaps someone can tell me if this IRIS health communit version (IRISHealth_Community-2022.1.0.209.0-lnxubuntu2004x64) is supposed

to work in an Ubuntu 20.04 LTS installation in an Oracle Virtual Box .

I am trying to install different versions on Ubuntu . I tried with the 18 version. No luck. Than I've tried with the 20.04 version. No luck either.

The error I am having now is below

///////////////////////// error message from the install ////////////////////////////////

home/epic/epicinstall/IRISHealth_Community-2022.1.0.209.0-lnxubuntu2004x64# .

This is the third in a series of releases that are part of the developer preview program for 2022.2 Future preview releases are expected to be updated biweekly and we will add features as they are ready.  Many updates, fixes and enhancements have been added in 2022.2, in SQL management, cloud integration, Kafka and JMS adapters, the SQL Loader, and other areas. Please share your feedback through the Developer Community so we can build a better product together.

The Early Access Program (EAP) is still active for the Columnar Storage.

I am reaching out to find out if anyone has come across a similar dilemma. 

In my current role, I have been asked around the best way to design some patient labels for a client.

 I primarily would stick to what I know and veered towards designing the label in ZPL and then creating a Abstract Class to call the ZPL code, however I have been asked why not to design via JReport. The patient labels will be processed via thermal ink printers primarily Zebras, I am wondering if anyone out there has come across this or  would recommend to stick to what you know.

LS, Is it possible to create User Accounts, and assign specific Roles to them, from objectscript?

Hello, I'm using the InterSystems IRIS connector for Power BI to connect to our Iris for Health database, using Direct Query.

I have a column [Company] which is datatype bigint, and as far as I can tell the data is 2 for most (or all?) records.

When I bring the data into Power BI, every row shows as NULL (I think it should be 2 for most)

= Table.SelectRows(Table, each [Company] <> null and [Company] <> "")

-- removes all rows

so instead I use

= Table.

Developer Preview releases are now available for the 2022.2 version of InterSystems IRIS, IRIS for Health, and HealthShare Health Connect.

This is the second in a series of releases that are part of the developer preview program for 2022.2 Future preview releases are expected to be updated biweekly and we will add features as they are ready.  This program allows us to get feedback on capabilities and enhancements as they're available.  You'll see below a list of enhancements that are targeted for 2022.2.  Some these are not included in this developer preview.

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