Java Business Host is now retired

With the release of PEX in InterSystems IRIS 2020.1 and InterSystems IRIS for Health 2020.1, customers have a better way to build Java into productions than the Java Business Host. PEX provides a complete set of APIs for building interoperability components and is available in both Java and .NET.

The Java Business Host has been removed from InterSystems IRIS and InterSystems IRIS for Health as of their 2020.4 releases.  Customers using the Java Business Host are encouraged to migrate to PEX.

Advantages of PEX

Hey Developers,

Enjoy watching this new video on InterSystems Developers YouTube:

⏯ Demo of REST APIs defined in Swagger, built with InterSystems IRIS interfacing with a SQL backend

Let's imagine if you would like to write some real web application, for instance, some simple clone of medium.com. Such sort of application can be written using any different language on the backend side, or with any framework on the frontend side. So many ways to do the same application, and you can look at this project. Which offers a bunch of frontends and backends realizations for exactly the same application. And you can easily mix them, any chosen frontend should work with any backend.

Let me introduce the same application realization for InterSystems IRIS on a backend side.

Hello there developers,

As I started to install the IRIS for community editing I came across this interface. (Image attached below)

Is there a major difference in these 2 types of installations and is there a place where I can refer with regard to this in detail please? 

Please let me know. 

Thank you in advance. 

Hello Community,

On the installation process of the IRIS Community Edition I came across an interface as below (image attached.)

I would like to know what it means, what is the use of it, what it is and where can i know more on this? 

I tried the documentation page but was not successful in finding anything regarding it. 

I would like to know more on it please. 

Hoping to hear soon. 

Regards. 

We use the Category drop-down for other IT analysts to quickly see interfaces related to their application/group.  This drop0down fails to work (IDs get out of sync with Config Item IDs) if the Production is compiled.    There is no fix available (development was started, but stopped in favor of other items).

Has anyone else run into this issue?  Any custom work-arounds?

Example:

Thanks.

Hi Team,

Can you please provider some example how to Create ACK/NACK for HL7 ORU ?

Thanks,

Ankur Shah

Hi Community,

Want to learn about the Record Mapper tool? Then don't miss this video on InterSystems Developers YouTube:

⏯ Using the Complex Record Mapper

Hi Community,

We're pleased to invite you to the upcoming webinar in Spanish called "Learning ObjectScript from scratch"!

Date & Time: May 25, 4:00 PM (CEST)

Speaker: @David Reche, Manager of the Dev Community in Spanish

The webinar is aimed at:

Images for other languages are often build using multistage build process.

What about InterSystems IRIS?

Consider this Dockerfile:

FROM irishealth-community:2020.4.0.524.0 AS builder

# Load code into USER and compile
# Adjust settings, etc.

FROM irishealth-community:2020.4.0.524.0

# replace in standard kit with what we modified in first stage

COPY --from=builder /usr/irissys/iris.cpf /usr/irissys/.
COPY --from=builder /usr/irissys/mgr/IRIS.DAT /usr/irissys/mgr/.
COPY --from=builder /usr/irissys/mgr/user/IRIS.DAT /usr/irissys/mgr/user/.

The advantage of this approach is the image size.
The disadvantage is that on a final stage developer must know/remember all the modified places in the builder image.
But otherwise is this approach OK for InterSystems IRIS?
Have anyone tried to build IRIS images this way?

In this article we are going to show the results of the comparision between IRIS and Postgress when handling Astronomy data.

Introduction

Since the earliest days of human civilization we have been fascinated by the sky at night. There are so many stars! Everybody has dreamed about them and fantasized about life in other planets.

Hi Community,

We're pleased to invite you to the online meetup with the winners of the InterSystems Developer Tools contest!

Date & Time: Friday, April 30, 2021 – 11:00 EDT

What awaits you at this Virtual Meetup? 

• Our winners' bios.
• Short demos on their applications.
• An open discussion about technologies being used, bonuses, questions. Plans for the next contests.

If I have an online backup running and a snapshot backup is run whereby a freeze/thaw is done, will the online backup be affected ?

Hi developers!

I have an existing CSP app and I want to add a role to it. How can I make it programmatically?

We are running a restore of a mirrored database on the secondary mirror member via the DBREST restore procedure.

Since it is run from an interactive session, if the session times out or the vpn is severed, the restore is affected..... is there a way to run the restore in a background process instead ?

Hello,

I am trying to find out if it is possible to decode the Azure access token in IRIS. Has anyone ever tried this before? I need to decode the token to extract the "Scope" details in order to verify the scope to make sure client is permitted to do the request they have done.

If you could point me to any information, that'd be great. 

Thank you.

Utsavi

Hey developers,

We want to hear from you! Give us your feedback on the past InterSystems Developer Tools Contest! Please answer some questions to help us improve our contests.

👉 Quick survey: InterSystems Developer Tools Contest Survey

Hey community,

The InterSystems Developer Tools contest is over. Thank you all for participating in our exciting coding marathon!

And now it's time to announce the winners! 

A storm of applause goes to these developers and their applications:

As per the documentation, this is supposed to delete the contents of the lookup table, but it is deleting the table as well.

https://docs.intersystems.com/latest/csp/documatic/%25CSP.Documatic.cls…

Delete the contents of the lookup table pTable.

Purpose: I need to use a temporary Data lookup table within a DTL for repetition count of a key field. 

Steps:

Initialize - s tmpTable = ##class(Ens.Util.LookupTable).%New()

Lookup & add new entries - 

..Lookup("myTempTable",sThisPhone)

In this 3-part series of articles, is shown how you can use IAM to simply add security, according to OAuth 2.0 standards, to a previously unauthenticated service deployed in IRIS.

In the first part, was provided some OAuth 2.0 background together with some IRIS and IAM initial definitions and configurations in order to facilitate the understanding of the whole process of securing your services.

Needing to know how to define a property that can either be sent in my response as 

"members": null,

or 

"members": [
                {
                    "dob": "1905-05-01",
                    "firstName": "BOB",
                    "middleName": "T",
                    "nameSuffix": "",
                    "genderCode": "M",
                    "lastName": "COLLINS",
                    "memberId": "123421741",
                    "relationship": "Subscriber"
                }
            ],

Not sure if this is possible.  Currently defined as 

Property members As %VarString;

Hi Community,

Please welcome the new video on InterSystems Developers YouTube:

⏯ ObjectScript Package Manager ZPM: Installing, Building, Testing, Publishing IRIS

Hi Developers,

Enjoy watching this new video presented by @Evgeny Shvarov:

⏯ Package First Development Approach with InterSystems IRIS and ZPM

Preview releases are now available for the 2021.1 version of InterSystems IRIS, IRIS for Health and HealthShare Health Connect.

As this is a preview release, we are eager to learn from your experiences with this new release ahead of its General Availability release next month. Please share your feedback through the Developer Community so we can build a better product together.

Why SSH ?

If you do not have direct access to the server that runs your IRIS Docker container
you still may require access to the container outside "iris session" or "WebTerminal".
With an SSH terminal (PuTTY, KiTTY,.. ) you get access inside Docker, and then, depending
on your needs you run "iris session iris" or display/manipulate files directly.

Note: 

Introduction

This is iris-key-uploader a frontend in Angular with it's rest API.

The aim of this project is to easily import key file to Iris from a web ui.

Why this project

Unfortunatly the IRIS panel to change key doesn't give the opportunity to upload the license.

As you can see, you can only browse from the server side.

What if, you don't have a direct access to it ?

You would like to have a simple web page to upload the new key and activate it.

This is the purpose of this project.

Demo

UI

http://localhost:52773/keyuploader/index.html

Build

Run the server

docker-compose up -d

Install with ZPM

Earlier this year, the AppS.REST package was released. AppS.REST is a framework for easily exposing existing persistent classes in IRIS as REST resources. AppS.REST-enabled classes support CRUD operations with little effort from the developer, bridging the gap between persistent data in IRIS and data consumers, such as an Angular front end application.

But IRIS classes are much more than just a definition for loading and saving individual records! This article aims to highlight a few ways to leverage the power of IRIS in your REST applications.  Using the Phone.Contact sample app, we'll look at out-of-the-box query support, use of class queries and finally ObjectScript methods.

Like hardware hosts, virtual hosts in public and private clouds can develop resource bottlenecks as workloads increase. If you are using and managing InterSystems IRIS instances deployed in public or private clouds, you may have encountered a situation in which addressing performance or other issues requires increasing the capacity of an instance's host (that is, vertically scaling).

Hi Community,

Please welcome the new video on InterSystems Developers YouTube:

⏯ Visual Studio Code for ObjectScript

According to IDC, more than 80% of information it is NoSQL, especially text into documents. When the digital services or applications not process all this information, the business lose. To face this challenge, it is possible use OCR technology. OCR uses machine learning and/or trained image patterns to transform image pixels into text. This is important, because many documents are scanned into images inside PDF, or many documents contains images with text inside. So OCR are an important step to get all possible data from a document.