#InterSystems IRIS

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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.

Article Pietro Di Leo · Aug 21, 2025 3m read

Recently, I replaced my old laptop with a new one and had to migrate all my data. I was looking for a guide but couldn’t find anything that explained in detail how to migrate server connections from InterSystems Studio and Visual Studio Code from one PC to another. Simply reinstalling the tools is not enough, and migrating all the connections manually seemed like a waste of time. In the end, I managed to solve the problem, and this article explains how.

InterSystems Studio

Exporting Server Connections

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Article Laurel James (GJS) · Mar 12, 2024 2m read

SQLTools is a Visual Studio Code (VS Code) Extension with over 3.5 million downloads that provides connections to many of the most used databases, including InterSystems IRIS, using drivers. For developers new to VS Code, or those already familiar with it but are looking to streamline their connections to InterSystems IRIS, this tutorial will take you through installing the SQLTools extensions and the InterSystems IRIS drive. It then guides you on how to establish a connection to your instance of InterSystems IRIS and run a query. You will need: VS Code installed on your system and access to

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Question Rutvik ISM · Aug 21, 2025

I try the Large data Save in FHIR server in Binary Resource but it's failed 

Methed: Post , URL: fhirservers/fhir/r4/Binary 

I hit the API but the record not save and same API but base64 data length is 3 lac than it's save without faile.

I pass data on this formet

{

  "resourceType" : "Binary",

  // from Resource: id, meta, implicitRules, and language

  "contentType" : "<code>", // R!  MimeType of the binary content

  "securityContext" : { Reference(Any) }, // Identifies another resource to use as proxy when enforcing access control

  "data" : "<base64Binary>" // The actual content

}

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Article Benjamin De Boe · Jun 19, 2025 10m read

This article describes a significant enhancement of how InterSystems IRIS deals with table statistics, a crucial element for IRIS SQL processing, in the 2025.2 release. We'll start with a brief refresher on what table statistics are, how they are used, and why we needed this enhancement. Then, we'll dive into the details of the new infrastructure for collecting and saving table statistics, after which we'll zoom in onto what the change means in practice for your applications. We'll end with a few additional notes on patterns enabled by the new model, and look forward to the follow-on phases of this initial delivery.

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Article Yuri Marx · Aug 8, 2025 11m read

This article outlines the process of utilizing the renowned Jaeger solution for tracing InterSystems IRIS applications. Jaeger is an open-source product for tracking and identifying issues, especially in distributed and microservices environments. This tracing backend that emerged at Uber in 2015 was inspired by Google's Dapper and Twitter's OpenZipkin. It later joined the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) as an incubating project in 2017, achieving graduated status in 2019. This guide will demonstrate how to operate the containerized Jaeger solution integrated with IRIS.

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Announcement Liubov Zelenskaia · Aug 18, 2025

Join our first in-person Developer Meetup in São Paulo to explore trends in artificial intelligence, interoperability, and data orchestration, with a focus on technical content and high-quality networking.

Talk 1: AI Programming Assistants
Description: AI assistants: a productivity miracle or just another distraction? A practical, no-nonsense session revealing the real impact of these tools on your daily coding workflow.
Speaker:  @Fernando Ferreira, Sales Engineer, InterSystems

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Article Iryna Mykhailova · Aug 15, 2025 3m read

The August Article Bounty on the Global Masters article caught my attention, and one of the proposed topics sounded quite interesting in regard to its future use in my teaching. So, here's what I'd like to tell my students about tables in IRIS and how they correlate with the object model. 

First of all, InterSystems IRIS boasts a unified data model. This means that when you work with data, you are not locked into a single paradigm. The same data can be accessed and manipulated as a traditional SQL table, as a native object, or even as a multidimensional array (a global). It means that when you create an SQL table, IRIS automatically creates a corresponding object class. When you define an object class, IRIS automatically makes it available as an SQL table. The data itself is stored only once in IRIS's efficient multidimensional storage engine. The SQL engine and the object engine are simply different "lenses" to view and work with the same data.

First, let's look at the correlation between the relational model and the object model:

Relational Object
Table Class
Column Property
Row Object
Primary key Object Identifier

It's not always a 1:1 correlation, as you may have several tables represent one class, for example. But it's a general rule of thumb. 

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Article Iryna Mykhailova · Aug 12, 2025 7m read

Over the years, I’ve noticed that certain SQL questions come up repeatedly on the InterSystems Developer Community, especially about using the LIKE predicate in different contexts. Common variations include:

and many more derivatives. So, I decided to write an article that focuses on how LIKE works in InterSystems IRIS SQL, especially when used with variables in Embedded SQL, Dynamic SQL, and Class Queries, while touching on pattern escaping and special character searches.

First of all, I'd like to mention that InterSystems IRIS SQL offers most of the capabilities available in other relational DBMS that implement a later version of the SQL standard. But at the same time, it's important to mention that apart from relational access, in IRIS you can also use other models to get the same data, for example, object or document models. 

On this note, let's look at the LIKE predicate and how this tool is used in SQL for pattern matching. 

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Article Raj Singh · Mar 27, 2024 2m read

In recent versions of IRIS, a powerful new data loading command has been introduced to SQL: LOAD DATA. This feature has been highly optimized to import data into IRIS extremely fast, allowing hundreds of gigabytes of data to be inserted in seconds instead of hours or days. 

This is a very exciting improvement. However, a big problem in the data loading experience still exists. Namely, the time and hassle it takes to:

  1. Define the schema for the table in which you want to load data.
  2. Figure out the syntax for the LOAD DATA command.
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Article Robbie Luman · Aug 15, 2025 8m read

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.

Dynamic Objects

Dynamic Objects are very similar to the standard ObjectScript object model you get when you create a new instance of a class object, but with some key differences:

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Question Aaron Laferty · Aug 14, 2025

Hi all,

I’m running into an issue with a %ZEN.Component.tablePane in a Zen page.

We have:

  • A fully styled table with all columns defined
  • A backend query (SearchMessages) that accepts multiple filter parameters
  • A set of input fields at the top of the page for filtering (text, date, and checkboxes)

We’re trying to run the query from a button click using a client-side method (runSearch()) that collects the filter values, sets them as parameters, and calls executeQuery().

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Question Corentin Blondeau · Jul 3, 2025

Hello
I want to get the property of a class, sorted by order in storage.

I know we can use
 

Set definition = ##class(%Dictionary.ClassDefinition).%OpenId(className)
        Set listProperty = definition.Properties
        For ii = 1:1:listProperty.Count(){
                    write listProperty.GetAt(ii).Name

But using GetAt sorts the results alphabetically.

Example :

Class Test.classExtends (%SerialObject, %XML.Adaptor, %JSON.Adaptor)
{

    Property tiers As%String;Property journal As%String;
}

listProperty.GetAt(1).Name = "journal" and listProperty.GetAt(2).Name = "tiers"

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Question Georgia Gans · Aug 11, 2025

Hi everyone,

I am trying to create a treeMapChart in IRIS BI that will then be displayed on my DeepSeeWeb dashboard. In the IRIS BI User Portal, this is an example of what my treeMapChart looks like:

I know there is a huge amount of rectangles in this graphic - I care most about the common components (the largest boxes) but I still want all of the boxes to show. However, it projects to my DeepSeeWeb dashboard as the following: 

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Announcement Kate Lau · Aug 12, 2025

#InterSystems Demo Games entry


⏯️ Data Transformation Adventures with InterSystems IRIS

Navigating interoperability and healthcare can be an exciting adventure. In this demo, we will show you how InterSystems IRIS can be the perfect tool to get data - wherever it may lie, in whatever format, into a format of your choice, including FHIR! Once that is done, analytics is a piece of cake with the FHIR SQL Builder and Deep See Web. Let the questing begin!

Presenters:
🗣 @Kate Lau, Sales Engineer, InterSystems
🗣 @Merlin Wijaya, Sales Engineer, InterSystems
🗣 @Martyn Lee, Sales Engineer, InterSystems
🗣 @Bryan Hoon, Sales Engineer, InterSystems

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Question Anna Golitsyna · Aug 7, 2025

For example, you start debugging the AAA function, which calls the BBB function, then goes to the CCC^ABC function in a different routine and ends up while executing XXX^XYZ. No other routines or functions are visited in this example. What I would like is to get the record of AAA -> BBB -> CCC^ABC -> XXX^XYZ. No marking each function with recording code should be involved: too time consuming, too many functions in real code.

UPD: Iris has built in %SYS.Trace for this purpose but this class is apparently absent in Cache 2017. Did not find any substitutes yet.

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Discussion Infant Livingston · Jul 10, 2025

Hello Community,

I'm currently planning a system upgrade from Caché (2018.1.8.766) to InterSystems IRIS (2024.1). The environment consists of one database server and three application servers connected via ECP.

I’m considering two possible upgrade approaches:

  1. Upgrade the application servers to IRIS first.
    Since IRIS is expected to be backward-compatible with Caché over ECP, the database server would remain on Caché temporarily.
  2. Upgrade the database server first,
    followed by upgrading the application servers, as they don’t store data.
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Announcement Simon Sha · Aug 11, 2025

#InterSystems Demo Games entry


⏯️ Auto-scaling made easy in GKE with InterSystems Kubernetes Operator (IKO)

Kubernetes horizontal pod auto-scaling (HPA) is the key to handle the unpredictable compute workload in healthcare systems. IKO helps orchestrating the IRIS container deployment in Kubernetes including the capability to configure HPA. This demo uses XSLT processing as an example to showcase this type of elasticity.

🗣 Presenter: @Simon Sha, Sales Architect, InterSystems

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Article Timothy Leavitt · Aug 11, 2025 3m read

This great article sparked some recent private discussion, and I'd like to share some of my own thoughts from it.
The motivating concern boils down to: Why do we need coding rules or conventions at all? What happened to the wonderful era of the Renaissance artist-programmer forging their own path, prior to being supplanted by the craftsman and now (even worse) by AI?
In short, there are a few reasons why coding standards/guidelines are useful, and the Renaissance artist-programmer is not entirely gone.

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Question Thomas Wuppermann · Jul 3, 2025

Hi,

sometimes we need more then one Iris container at the same time. Since as containers they always have the same instance name shown in the management portal, it is hard to distinguish the management-portals of the instances. Searching for a way to make it easier I thought I could change the instance name shown in the management portal. I tried "iris rename" in different ways but could only change the configuration name which is shown by "iris list", not the name in the management portal.

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Question Hannah Sullivan · Aug 6, 2025

I have a custom Buffer class which is designed to capture written/printed statements to the device, to be able to transform the captured text to string or stream type. I have used this in ObjectScript to capture ObjectScript write statements and return a string. I would like to try to use this with a [ Language = python ] method as follows. This class will be called by a scheduled task.

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