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I had configured the environment as follows:
OS: Redhat Linux 9.4
IRIS 2025.2 installed on local directory
IRIS Database: One LVM is created with 20 Storage luns and the LVM is mounted on a mount point. IRIS database is created on that
Primary and Alternate Journal: One LVM is created with 5 Storage luns and the LVM is mounted on a mount point. IRIS database is created on that.
WIJ: One LVM is created with 5 Storage luns and the LVM is mounted on a mount point. IRIS database is created on that.
So Data, WIJ and Journal is mounted on 3 separate mount point.
Dynamic Entities (objects and arrays) in IRIS are incredibly useful in situations where you are having to transform JSON data into an Object Model for storage to the database, such as in REST API endpoints hosted within IRIS. This is because these dynamic objects and arrays can easily serve as a point of conversion from one data structure to the other.
Anyone up for a round of golf?
Are you fed up of making a machine write code for you? Do you miss thinking through problems yourself? Then you are in luck, this round, I propose adding the rule of no AI use. obviously its a game of honor with no prize, so I shan't be enforcing this, but you'll know...
Challenge:
Create a function which takes a string as a parameter, and returns the length of thelongest sequence of alternating consonants and vowels. The sequence is broken by having two vowels or two consonants in a
Hi everyone,
I am currently setting up InterSystems API Manager (IAM) 3.4.3.11 using Docker. The installation is successful, the license is active, and I can access the Manager (port 8002).
I am now trying to secure the Administration Portal using basic-auth. I've found some documentation stating that I should:
KONG_ENFORCE_RBAC and KONG_ADMIN_GUI_AUTH in the docker-compose.yml.I am currently managing environments running InterSystems IRIS and Caché on Windows servers.
I’m reviewing storage optimization best practices and I have a question regarding a specific Windows drive setting: "Allow files on this drive to have contents indexed in addition to file properties."
Based on my research, everything indicates that it is better to disable this option, especially on drives used by databases. However, I couldn't find a specific "official" stance in the documentation explicitly mentioning this checkbox.
InterSystems continues to push AI capabilities forward natively in IRIS — vector search, MCP support, and Agentic AI capabilities. That roadmap is important, and there is no intention of stepping back from it.
But the AI landscape is also evolving in a way that makes ecosystem integration increasingly essential. Tools like Dify — an open-source, production-grade LLM orchestration platform — have become a serious part of enterprise AI stacks.
I have installed IRIS community edition on a local directory in Redhat Linux 9.4.
Created a 10G database on a separate mount point directory which comes out of a storage volume of 50G.
Also placed Journal and WIJ on 2 separate mount point directories which comes out of two different storage volume of 50G each.
I want to take a snapshot and recover the snapshot on a secondary host and check the consistency of the database.
As Storage snapshot will be taken, only Data, Journal and WIJ file placed on Storage volumes will be snapshotted.
Is there any Cache setting that needs to be checked while configuring IRIS Community Edition 2025.2 and does it impact WIJ recovery.
Also I have kept Database, WIJ and JOURNAL on the same snapshot group with Consistency . Is it the recommended settings? Am I getting the WIJ mismatch error due to this setting?
What is Unstructured Data?
Unstructured data refers to information lacking a predefined data model or organization. In contrast to structured data found in databases with clear structures (e.g., tables and fields), unstructured data lacks a fixed schema. This type of data includes text, images, videos, audio files, social media posts, emails, and more.
Why Are Insights from Unstructured Data Important?
According to an IDC (International Data Corporation) report, 80% of worldwide data is projected to be unstructured by 2025, posing a significant concern for 95% of businesses.
Configuration differences between environments are not always mistakes, but they should always be intentional and governed.
We're excited to announce that version 3.6 of JediSoft IRISsync® is now available, bringing enhancements designed to give teams more control and visibility when managing configuration settings across multiple IRIS instances.
What's new in IRISsync 3.6:
I have a global with multiple nodes :
^A("ABC") = ""
^A("DEF") = ""
^A(123) = ""How to create a new single node in that global, in a way it's always at the end of the global (eg: this will be the very last node being enumerated)
I end up with this code but maybe there is a cleaner and simpler approach :
set ^A($char(65535)) = "" //should be bigger than any character inserted
set ^A($char(255)) = "" //some systems does not seems to support >255 characters, this might be saferI only need to write it once, this code is not intended to be used in a loop or something, just to add something at
I am stuck at a crossroad and was wondering if I could get a second pair of eyes to help with a query that I am sending from a Task to a Service to process some data.
I have a Linked Table (view) that points back to a MS SQL View that I am trying to query. However, my execution keeps either failing or not returning any rows. When I take the SQL Query and execute it within the Management Portal I get results, however Cache is not seeing it when trying to execute this code.
When connecting to the database using a client-server architecture, for example using language binding, the machine name of the client can be obtained using the following code:
set client=##CLASS(%SYS.ProcessQuery).Open("P"_$j).ClientNodeNamein C++ program with #include iris-callin.h.. The program terminateswhen it tries to execute IRISSECURESTARTA with exit code -1073741515.
const char *username="user", *password="xyz",*exename="Test_Callin";
int termflag = IRIS_PROGMODE|IRIS_TTNONE|IRIS_TTNEVER;rc = IRISSECURESTARTA(&pusername, &ppassword, &pexename, termflag, timeout, NULL, NULL);
Note: the %Service_Callin setting is Enabled.
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We are happy to present the bonuses page for the applications submitted to the InterSystems "Full Stack Programming" Contest 2026
See the results below.
1 Introduction
In environments that use InterSystems IRIS, globals are the physical foundation of data storage. Although system queries and administrative tools exist for metric inspection, global growth analysis is usually reactive: the problem is generally only noticed when there is disk pressure or performance impact.

Picture a dark room. The only light comes from a wall of displays and a blinking prompt that politely informs you:
“LINK TO M-U5K-3T: HIGH LATENCY – DIRECT CONTROL DISABLED.”
Perfect.
You are supposed to be a Rover Commander in the Musketeer Corps. Somewhere absurdly far away, you have an autonomous unit parked on a hostile exoplanet. It wants you dead, but it’s also covered in minerals that could fund a small civilization.
The ore on M-U5K-3T is everywhere. Unfortunately, everything else on the surface is actively trying to kill you.
So, we don't pilot. We script.
The facial recognition has become the most popular method for validating people's identities, thus enabling access to systems, confirmation of personal and documentary data, and approval of actions and documents.
The challenges are related to performance when the database is very large, accuracy, and especially the privacy of biometric facial data. For these challenges, nothing is better than using InterSystems Vector Search, as it allows:

In the previous article, we saw in detail about Connectors, that let user upload their file and get it converted into embeddings and store it to IRIS DB. In this article, we'll explore different retrieval options that IRIS AI Studio offers - Semantic Search, Chat, Recommender and Similarity.
I am issuing "iris freeze <instance_name> to freeze the instance. I want confirmation that no IO is going to the database so taht I can take a snapshot.
I am configuring a set of Linux (RHEL 9) servers to operate as an IRIS 2025.1 mirror set. Mirroring traffic is using TLS, so each IRIS server has the necessary TLS configurations. However installation of ISCAgent on the dedicated arbiter host didn't make any mention of TLS or certificates. Nor did I find anything about this when searching IRIS documentation.
Am I missing something? Does the traffic between the IRIS hosts and the arbiter host use TLS? Should I be installing any certs on the arbiter host to facilitate secure communication?
Hi, Community!
Want to try using Flask to expose InterSystems IRIS data over HTTP? This short video will get you started:
Building a REST API in Flask with InterSystems IRIS
👨💻Try it yourself in this hands-on exercise! (exercise, 30m).
Keywords: Vibe coding, Windsurf, IRIS, TIE
Has anyone not been trying "vibe coding" so far?
Even merely 3 years ago, if anyone asked
Inspired by @Ashok Kumar T's post on the ideas portal here as well as my own wishes for a solution to this problem, I have come up with a simple way to allow more complete and consistent JSON queries without having to specify every desired field. I have created a class that extends the built-in %JSON.Adaptor class and makes its %JSONExportToString and %JSONExportToStream methods accessible through SQL with just a couple of simple SqlProc Methods.
Class DH.JSONAdaptor Extends %JSON.Adaptor [ Abstract ]
{
ClassMethod jsonstring(id, map = "") [ SqlProc ]
{
try{
set myobj = .I created iris-budget app for the InterSystems Full Stack Contest in 2026. By full stack, we mean a frontend web or mobile application that inserts, updates, or deletes data in InterSystems IRIS via REST API, Native API, ODBC/JDBC, or Embedded Python.
My app uses multiple REST APIs to add a new category or retrieve a list of categories of expenses and income.
I inherited /csp/coffee from module.xml in iris-fullstack-template.
For this project, I created a swagger file called "budget.json.
With the release of InterSystems IRIS Cloud SQL, we're getting more frequent questions about how to establish secure connections over JDBC and other driver technologies. While we have nice summary and detailed documentation on the driver technologies themselves, our documentation does not go as far to describe individual client tools, such as our personal favourite DBeaver. In this article, we'll describe the steps to create a secure connection from DBeaver to your Cloud SQL deployment.
Hi Community,
In this article, I will introduce my application iris-CliniNote .
CliniNote is a full-featured clinical notes application that combines classic CRUD operations with **real-time AI-assisted notes matching** powered by **InterSystems IRIS native vector search**. The standout feature: while a doctor is writing or editing a clinical note, a side panel shows the **top 5 most similar notes** based on the semantic content of the note being written — **excluding the current patient** to avoid trivial matches. This gives clinicians immediate access to "patients like this one" — helping with differential diagnosis, treatment pattern recognition, and rare presentation detection.
https://irisclininote.sandbox.developer.intersystems.com/csp/clininote/login.html
Keywords: IRIS, Agents, Agentic AI, Smart Apps
Transformer based LLMs appear to be a pretty good "universal logical–symbolic abstractor". They started to bridge up the previous abyss among human languages and machine languages, which in essence are all logic symbols that could be mapped into the same vector space.
Wondering for 3 years we might be able to just use English (etc human natural languages) to do IRIS implementations as well, one day.