InterSystems is committed to providing a high quality developer experience including a great IDE (Integrated Developer Experience). For the past several years we have been evolving Visual Studio Code's ObjectScript tooling in parallel with our long-standing IDE, InterSystems Studio. There have been over 46,000 downloads of the VSCode-ObjectScript plugin, and the feedback from developers is that this is a great developer experience, and now superior to InterSystems Studio.

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Hi Developers,

The annual competition for InterSystems IRIS developers is fast approaching!

We're super excited to invite you all to join the Grand Prix contest for building open-source solutions using InterSystems IRIS data platform!

🏆 InterSystems Grand Prix Contest 2023 🏆

Duration: June 12th - July 9th, 2023

Prize pool: $26,000

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InterSystems announces its seventh preview, as part of the developer preview program for the 2023.2 release. This release will include InterSystems IRIS and InterSystems IRIS for Health.

Discontinuation of the Private Web Server (PWS)

A major topic in this release is the discontinuation of the Private Web Server (PWS) from the installers. This feature has been announced since last year and it's removed from InterSystems installers, starting with this developer preview.

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InterSystems is announcing an end of maintenance event for Zen Reports beginning in Intersystems IRIS and IRIS for Health 2025.1. This follows the deprecation notice made when InterSystems IRIS was introduced in 2018 and subsequent inclusion of InterSystems Reports in 2020 to provide replacement reporting functionality. An overview of the timeline is:

March 2018. InterSystems IRIS 2018.1: Announcement of Zen Reports deprecation, continued shipment to provide continuity for existing applications

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InterSystems Official
· Nov 29, 2023
Introducing the Upgrade Impact Checklist

We are excited to announce a new part of InterSystems documentation that makes it easier to upgrade InterSystems IRIS® data platform, InterSystems IRIS® for Health™, or HealthShare® Health Connect. The Upgrade Impact Checklist at https://docs.intersystems.com/upgrade shows you all the things you need to consider – and only the things you need to consider – in an upgrade between any two versions.

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InterSystems Official
· Nov 9, 2023
InterSystems IRIS Minimum Supported CPU Models

When AMD published the x86-64 standard in 1999, little did they know they were inventing what would become the de-facto architecture for server CPUs. But the CPUs of today aren’t the same as ones produced 20 years back – as they have extensions for everything from Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX) to Hardware-Assisted Virtualization (VT-d).

InterSystems would like to take better advantage of these new extensions in upcoming versions of InterSystems IRIS. While our compilers are smart enough to create optimized code for many situations, some optimizations can only be turned on by explicitly cutting off support for processors that do not have that instruction set. Additionally, we are finding it increasingly difficult to maintain older CPU models to test on.

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You may have heard about our mg-dbx-napi interface for IRIS which provides insanely fast access from Node.js. If you've been following recent developments in the server-side JavaScript world, you'll be excited to know that mg-dbx-napi also works with Bun.js, the latter proving to be significantly faster than Node.js for many/most purposes.

Of course, if you're a Node.js user, you'll probably wonder how mg-dbx-napi compares with the Native API for Node.js that is included with IRIS.

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InterSystems has decided to stop further development of the InterSystems IRIS Natural Language Processing, formerly known as iKnow, technology and label it as deprecated as of the 2023.3 release of InterSystems IRIS. InterSystems will continue to support existing customers using the technology, but does not recommend starting new development projects outside of the core text exploration use cases it was originally designed for.

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Announcement
· Jul 6, 2023
DEVBOX

https://www.youtube.com/embed/3pao-TwPHkc
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Hi Community,

I'm pleased to announce DEVBOX, the code anywhere IDE for IRIS.

Please watch the video and let me know what you think. Would you use it?

All the best,
Sean.

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For several years now Visual Studio Code has supported the notebook coding paradigm with a maturing UX and an API that is enabling a notebook extensions ecosystem to grow. One of the best-known notebook platforms is Jupyter Notebooks. A Microsoft team publishes an extension that allows VS Code to handle .ipynb notebook files. These can either work against a local Python environment or connect to a Jupyter Server, which typically hosts remote Python environments with beefier resources.

What if your InterSystems IRIS environments, whether local on your workstation or remote in your organization / cloud, could operate as Jupyter Servers? And not only for Embedded Python but also for ObjectScript and SQL

"If we build it, will they come?"

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Hi Developers,
Our next online Developer Roundtable will take place on November 30 at 10 am ET | 4 pm CET.📍

Tech talks:

1. Foreign Tables - by @Benjamin De Boe Manager, Analytics Product Management, InterSystems
2. Building "data products" with dbt and InterSystems IRIS - by @Thomas Dyar Product Manager, Machine Learning, InterSystems

We will have time for Q&A and open discussion.

Update: watch the recording of the roundtable below:

https://www.youtube.com/embed/RxLj4d8GvkQ
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Hi Developers,

Watch this video to learn the different roles in OAuth 2.0, scopes, tokens, important authentication flows/grant types, and more:

OAuth 2.0 Fundamentals @ Global Summit 2023

https://www.youtube.com/embed/5zLdCs5cCd0
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InterSystems Official
· Aug 17, 2023
InterSystems Supported Platforms Update Q3-2023

We often get questions about recent and upcoming changes to the list of platforms and frameworks that are supported by the InterSystems IRIS data platform. This update aims to share recent changes as well as our best current knowledge on upcoming changes, but predicting the future is tricky business and this shouldn’t be considered a committed roadmap.

With that said, on to the update…

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InterSystems announces its first preview, as part of the developer preview program for the 2023.2 release. This release will include InterSystems IRIS and InterSystems IRIS for Health.

Highlights

Many updates and enhancements have been added in 2023.2 and there are also brand-new capabilities, such as Time-Aware Modeling, enhancements of Foreign Tables, and the ability to use Ready-Only Federated Tables. Some of these features or improvements may not be available in this current developer preview.

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Hello Everyone,

The Certification Team of InterSystems Learning Services is in the process of developing two exams focused on using SQL in InterSystems IRIS and we need input from our InterSystems IRIS SQL community. Your input will be used to evaluate and establish the contents of the exam.

How do I provide my input? We will present you with a list of job tasks, and you will rate them on their importance as well as other factors.

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Hey Developers,

Watch this video to learn how to use Embedded Python using applications from the Open Exchange app gallery:

Embedded Python Use Cases @ Global Summit 2023

https://www.youtube.com/embed/hOnhZ9QM3vM
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Hi Community,

Watch this video to learn how to achieve true Interoperability in Healthcare Systems which is all about going beyond the typical "syntactic" interoperability and understanding what's needed to bring that interoperability to the next level in healthcare:

Achieving True Interoperability in Healthcare Systems

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InterSystems Official
· Jun 2, 2023
InterSystems Supported Platforms Update Q2-2023

We often get questions about recent and upcoming changes to the list of platforms and frameworks that are supported by the InterSystems IRIS data platform. This update aims to share recent changes as well as our best current knowledge on upcoming changes, but predicting the future is tricky business and this shouldn’t be considered a committed roadmap.

With that said, on to the update…

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Hi Community,

Watch this video to learn how to leverage embedded (server-side) source control in a build pipeline using the git- source-control package and other additional tools:

Embedded Source Control with Git & Containers @ Global Summit 2023

https://www.youtube.com/embed/wAmB2gp_XLw
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InterSystems is pleased to announce the General Availability of InterSystems IRIS Cloud SQL and InterSystems IRIS Cloud IntegratedML, two foundational services for developing cloud-native solutions powered by the proven, enterprise-class performance and reliability of InterSystems IRIS technology.

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Hi Developers,

Join our next online Developer Roundtable on October 31 at 10 am ET | 3 pm CET. Our experts will cover two topics:

  1. "Deploying Python Applications" - by @Evgeny Shvarov, Senior Manager of Developer and Startup Programs, InterSystems
  2. "Deploying Java project + InterSystems IRIS in Docker" - by @Luis Angel Pérez Ramos, Sales Engineer, InterSystems

We will have time for Q&A and open discussion.

Update: Watch the recording below.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/WeEnl2fN01Q
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