Hi Community,
Enjoy the new video on InterSystems Developers YouTube:
⏯ Ahead of the Threats - The Future of Secure Systems @ Ready 2025
InterSystems IRIS is a Complete Data Platform
InterSystems IRIS gives you everything you need to capture, share, understand, and act upon your organization’s most valuable asset – your data.
As a complete platform, InterSystems IRIS eliminates the need to integrate multiple development technologies. Applications require less code, fewer system resources, and less maintenance.
Hi Community,
Enjoy the new video on InterSystems Developers YouTube:
⏯ Ahead of the Threats - The Future of Secure Systems @ Ready 2025
The 2026.1 release of InterSystems IRIS® data platform, InterSystems IRIS® for HealthTM, and HealthShare® Health Connect is now Generally Available (GA). This is an Extended Maintenance (EM) release.
The Interoperability user interface project has continued from 2025.1 and has incorporated many of the items that you – our customers and partners – have suggested and observed. We are continuing to invest in feedback and updating this important user experience. In the latest release, 2026.1 for IRIS, IRIS for Health, Health Connect and Health Connect Cloud, the BPL Editor and Message Viewer/Visual Trace applications are now available for opt-in!
NOTE:
If you're building solutions on IRIS and want to use Git, that's great! Just use VSCode with a local git repo and push your changes out to the server - it's that easy.
But what if:
Hi!
We are deploying the iris image in a Kubernetes environment and the cluster state is "Hung" , looking the alerts endpoint we get 2 alerts:
[
{
"time":"2026-03-24T13:45:44.548Z",
"severity":"2",
"message":"System appears to have failed over from node a69a9f137593"
},
{
"time":"2026-03-24T13:46:30.274Z",
"severity":"2",
"message":"Error: <PROTECT>KillAlive+1^%SYS.CDIRECT in SERVERS"
}
]
Any idea / help where those are comming from and how to address them?
SetUp:
I have created the following Task to kick off a Ens.BusinessService to execute a SQL query and process the results
Class OSU.Workday.TerminationsTask Extends %SYS.Task.Definition
{
Parameter TaskName As STRING = "OSU - Workday Termination Update";
Method OnTask() As %Status
{
#Dim sc as %Status
#Dim ex as %Exception.AbstractException
set sc = $$$OK
try{
// create the service
#Dim tService As OSU.DataSource.Workday.TermService
Set tServiceConfigName = "OSU.DataSource.Workday.It's been a while since the new UI for Productions and DTL was published as a preview and I would like to know your opinions about it.
WARNING: This is a personal opinion, totally personal and not related with InterSystems Corporation.
I'm going to start with the Interoperabilty screen:
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The style is sober and without frills, following the line of cloud services design, I like it.
But, always a but...or maybe two:
Are you familiar with SQL databases, but not familiar with IRIS? Then read on...
About a year ago I joined InterSystems, and that is how IRIS got on my radar. I've been using databases for over 40 years—much of that time for database vendors—and assumed IRIS would be largely the same as the other databases I knew.

This article will introduce you to the concept of virtual environments in Python, which are essential for managing dependencies and isolating project from the OS.
A virtual environment is a folder that contains :
Virtual environments will help you to isolate your project from the OS Python installation and from other projects.
Apache Superset is a modern data exploration and data visualization platform. Superset can replace or augment proprietary business intelligence tools for many teams. Superset integrates well with a variety of data sources.
And now it is possible to use with InterSystems IRIS as well.
An online demo is available and it uses IRIS Cloud SQL as a data source.
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Apache Superset provides a bunch of examples, which were successfully loaded to IRIS without any issues, and displayed on example dashboards.

Hello to all the esteemed members of the InterSystems developer community in Spanish!
Although I often consult the developer community and have occasionally left a question here, this will be my first article, and what better occasion to do so than by participating in the 3rd technical article contest.
The topic I will cover in this article is the different tools that InterSystems IRIS provides us to optimize both the databases and the queries we run, as well as the new types of storage and data.
How many times have we migrated an IRIS Instance to another machine, maybe even another version, and after a few days realized we forgot that one SSL Configuration critical for a Business Operations to work? Or maybe a credential, or a lonely class in a package by itself?
The simple solution is to make a checklist¹. A checklist of the entities we have to move. But simple checklists on Word documents are often forgotten, or just ignored.
Hi everyone,
I’m currently working with InterSystems IRIS and handling large datasets where some queries are starting to take longer than expected.
So far, I’ve tried basic indexing and reviewing query structures, which helped a bit, but I still feel there is room for improvement. My goal is to reduce response time, especially for frequently used queries in a production environment.
Hi Community,
Enjoy the new video on InterSystems Developers YouTube:
⏯ InterSystems Data Studio with Health Module - Unlocking Your Health Data's Potential @ Ready 2025
Imagine you’re walking down the street on a nice summer’s day, and someone walks up to you and says “Hey, you work at InterSystems, right? I’ve been hearing more and more about InterSystems IRIS lately. I know IRIS has its own programing language called ObjectBook? or InstaScript? OK, I admit it, I know it’s called ObjectScript! I know IRIS also supports Python. I’m a Python developer, so that sounds great to me. But I’m also interested in ObjectScript. For example, Python and other languages support collections. Does ObjectScript support collections?”
You’d answer “Of course!”
And then your new friend might get excited and start firing off more questions:
How would you answer? Well, you don’t have to worry about answering. All you’d have to do is send your new friend the URL of this long page.
| Alert Id | Product & Versions Affected | Risk Category & Score | Explicit Requirements |
| DP-449126 | InterSystems IRIS® data platform InterSystems IRIS® for Health InterSystems Health Connect™ versions 2024.1.0 – 2024.1.5, 2024.2.0, 2024.3.0, 2025.1.0 – 2025.1.3, 2025.2.0, 2025.3.0 |
Data Integrity: Low Risk | Database updates executed as part of custom logic for CSP session events may not be journaled. |
Hello Community!
We're pleased to invite you to the upcoming webinar in Hebrew:
👉Getting Started with OAuth 2.0 on InterSystems👈
📅 Date & time: March 25th, 3:00 PM IDT

I would like to understand the mechanism of "How data is written to the IRIS Database and in what sequence data is written to Journal, WIJ and IRIS database"
Is it possible to run a test case by classname instead of loading it from a directory?
I need to skip any directory loading completely since the directory with the source code does not exist.
Hello DC community,
InterSystems Certification is currently developing a certification exam for ObjectScript developers, and if you match the exam candidate description below, we would like you to beta test the exam! The exam will be available for beta testing starting February 18th, 2026.
Beta testing will be completed May 4, 2026.
Hello,
I have problem to get working my web application in IIS. On apache just works fine.
I had an app in wwwroot called test, there is index.html file where is tag
There are nfs disk commands (including nfsiostat) included with SystemPerformance, but disabled by default. Enable them by running:
$$Enablenfs^SystemPerformance()
Doing so will add the following nfs commands, for example, on Linux:
/usr/sbin/nfsstat -cn/usr/sbin/nfsiostat [interval] [count]Ensure the commands are installed and runnable from the OS :)
This can be subsequently disabled via $$Disablenfs^SystemPerformance()
Adding an arbitrary OS tool creates a "user" command under ^IRIS.
SQL injection remains one of the most critical vulnerabilities in database-driven applications, allowing attackers to manipulate queries and potentially access or compromise sensitive data. In InterSystems IRIS, developers have access to both Dynamic SQL and Embedded SQL, each with distinct characteristics. Understanding how to use them securely is essential for preventing SQL injection.
Dynamic SQL constructs queries as strings at runtime. While this offers flexibility, it also creates a vulnerability if user input is not handled correctly.
| Alert Id | Product & Versions Affected | Risk Category & Score | Explicit Requirements |
| DP-448888 |
Products: Versions: |
Operational: High Risk | ≥ 2 TB of database cache is used |
In the versions specified above, an instance may fail to start or may hang during operation if the database cache is greater than or equal to 2,097,152 MB (2 TB).
Hi Community,
We're super excited to share that we’ve just launched a new free, interactive tutorial designed especially for those who are new to InterSystems IRIS and looking for a clear, practical introduction to its core concepts.
🧑🏫 Data Models of InterSystems IRIS 🧑💻

USER>do $System.Python.Shell()
ERROR #5002: ObjectScript-Error: <OBJECT DISPATCH>Shell+16^%SYS.Python.1
*Failed to Load Python: Check documentation and messages.log,
Check CPF parameters:[PythonRuntimeLibrary,PythonRuntimeLibraryVersion],
Check sys.path setup in: $INSTANCE/lib/python/iris_site.py
02/03/25-18:27:39:497 (13156) 1 [Generic.Event] CPF settings (PythonRuntimeLibraryVersion) do not specify python correctly - Python can not be loaded 02/03/25-18:27:39:498 (13156) 1 [Generic.
Hello all,
I have a EnsLib.HTTP.GenericMessage inbound from a webhook with a GC stream.
My router is defined as the following:
Hi all.
I have a rather strange problem.
I've created a method in Python to create a vector for a vector search. So far, so good.
If I call this method from the terminal, it works correctly:
But if I make this same call from a code block in a Business Process, it gets stuck, doesn't respond, and throws the following error:

Does anyone know what's happening and how to fix it?
Thank you in advance
Hi community,
I've been working on a side project that I'd love to get some eyes on: a ground-up rebuild of the classic IRIS Production Monitor using a modern web stack. The existing ZEN/CSP-based portal does the job, but I wanted to explore what a contemporary, real-time version of it could look like.
A standalone Angular web application that connects to any Interoperability-enabled IRIS namespace and gives you a live view of your production — services, processes, operations, queues, event log, and message traffic — all in one screen.