Using the IRIS native API for Node.JS was the opportunity to present
a MicroService operating in a Docker container.
A demo video is now also available to watch the demo in operation.

Instead of a utility you call directly on your IRIS host you now send a work-packages
to the MicroService as would typically do with System Interoperability (aka.ENSEMBLE):
of course, you have the option of more than one WebSocket Server.
Once the WebSocket Client Service has done its job you get back the result from it.

As promised, here is Part 2 of our interview with Russ Leftwich! In this half, Adam Coppola talks with Russ about some of the InterSystems technologies that play a part in the concepts from Part 1, as well as some specific discussions about modern FHIR applications. After the interview with Russ, we were also joined by Jenny Ames to talk about the upcoming FHIR Dev Days. Check it out, and make sure to go subscribe to Data Points!

Hi Community!

We're pleased to invite you to the Online Meetup with the Winners of the 2nd IRIS Programming Contest! It's a virtual Meetup with some of the winners of the past InterSystems IRIS Online Programming Contest. 

Date & Time: Friday, May 8, 2020 – 11:00 EDT

What awaits you at this virtual Meetup? 

• Our winners' bios.
• Short demos on their applications.
• A short interview with all the winners about the past contest. Plans for the next contests.

Introduction

In the first article in this series, we’ll take a look at the entity–attribute–value (EAV) model in relational databases to see how it’s used and what it’s good for. Then we'll compare the EAV model concepts to globals.

Sometimes you have objects with an unknown number of fields, or perhaps hierarchically nested fields, for which, as a rule, you need to search.

Take, for example, an online store with diverse groups of products. Each product group has its own unique set of properties and has common properties as well.

After I loaded the intersystems/iam:0.34-1-1 image in local, I am trying to do the next step of configuration.

2) Configure your InterSystems IRIS instance

  2a) Enable the /api/IAM web application
  2b) Enable the IAM user
  2c) Change the password for the IAM user

Do we need to change these settings in iris.cpf file? any inputs where we have to configure? I have IRIS 2019.1.1 installed in my machine.

Thanks,

Nag.

Hi again!

I logged into the demo IRIS again, and for some reason, today, I had an "Classpath is incomplete" warning message. The classpath is defined under quickstarts-multimodel-java.  Here is the contents of the file :

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<classpath>

    <classpathentry kind="src" path="src"/>

    <classpathentry kind="lib" path="lib/intersystems-jdbc-3.0.0.jar"/>

    <classpathentry kind="lib" path="lib/intersystems-xep-3.0.0.jar"/>

    <classpathentry kind="con" path="org.eclipse.jdt.launching.JRE_CONTAINER/org.eclipse.jdt.internal.debug.ui.launcher.StandardVMType/JavaSE-1.

See Part 1 here.

Part 2: Index Handling

Now you have a good idea of what kind of indices you need for your class and how to define them. Next, how do you handle them?

Query Plan

(REMEMBER: Like any modifications to a class, adding indices in a live system has its risks – if users are accessing or updating data while an index is populated, they may encounter empty or incorrect query results, or even corrupt the indices that are being built.

I have just started to experiment with Using IRIS in Docker.

My first objective was to be able to enable global persistence within a Docker container. Using the following command I have managed to achieve this:

docker run --detach --publish 52773:52773 --volume /data/dur:/dur --env ISC_DATA_DIRECTORY=/dur/iconfig --name iris21 store/intersystems/iris-community:2020.1.0.199.0

Within this container, I have created a simple global:

for i=1:1:10 set ^tmp(i)=""

I then stopped and removed the container. On reloading and restarting the container the global has persisted.

Hi Developers!

The second InterSystems Online Programming Contest is over. Thank you all for participating in our IRIS Competition!

As a result - 7 great apps! And now it's time to announce the winners! 

objectscript-json-patch

An implementation of JSON-Patch in ObjectScript.

Why you should use JSON-Patch

JSON-Patch (RFC6902) is a standard format that allows you to update a JSON document by sending the changes rather than the whole document. JSON Patch plays well with the HTTP PATCH verb (method) and REST style programming.

Install

With zpm :

USER>zpm
zpm:USER>install objectscript-json-patch

How-To use it

Use it with this call :

Do ##class(Grongier.JSON.Utils).Patch(tDoc,tPatch)

Where :

• tDoc is a %DynamicObject (JSON)
• tPatch is a %DynamicArray of the patches (the JSON Patch).

Hi Developers!

We are going to establish a series of InterSystems IRIS Online Programming contests this year.

In March we started with ObjectScript CLI and here is the schedule of topics for the next few months:

• April - InterSystems IRIS with REST API
• May - InterSystems IRIS Native API application: use Python, JS, .NET, Java native APIs in your application to use IRIS
• June-July - InterSystems IRIS AI/ML solutions. IntegratedML as a bonus
• August - InterSystems IRIS for Health FHIR application
• September - InterSystems IRIS Full-stack application: IRIS as a server and UI on any framework and any form: and web, desktop, mobile UI
• October - Interoperability solutions for InterSystems IRIS and InterSystems IRIS for Health
• November - Analytics Solution using InterSystems IRIS
• December - Multi-model solution using InterSystems IRIS

All applications should be runnable with InterSystems IRIS in a docker container.

Hi Developers,

Enjoy watching the new video on InterSystems Developers YouTube:

⏯ Developing Progressive Web Apps

I am trying to install IAM in my local and I downloaded IAM-0.34-1-1.tar.gz and extracted. I went to the location where iam_image.tar is available and run below command in the command prompt. 

C:\ESB\HC\IAM-0.34-1-1.tar\IAM-0.34-1-1\IAM>docker load -i iam_image.tar
unsupported os linux

Getting unsupported os Linux issue. Kindly let me know if anyone had this issue. Thanks!

Keywords: Deep Learning, Grad-CAM, X-Ray, Covid-19, HealthShare, IRIS

Purpose

Over the Easter Weekend I touched on some deep learning classifier for Covid-19 Lungs.  The demo result seems fine, seemingly matching some academic research publications around that time on this topic. But is it really "fine "? 

Recently I happened to listen to an online lunch webinar on "Explainability  in Machine Learning", and Don talked about this classification result at the end of his talk:

The above figure is also presented in this research paper: “Why Should I Trust You?

I'm wondering if anybody has done an implementation of the https://www.shibboleth.net/products/service-provider/ interface in Caché / IRIS to have a application running in Caché / IRIS be acception the shibboleth tokens and data as  usage credentials.

Hi Developers!

This is the digest of new solutions and applications submitted to InterSystems OpenExchange in April 2020!

19 New applications in April 2020

FHIR Server and API Manager for MIT COVID-19 Challenge by Steven LeBlanc

This demo shows how InterSystems API Manager (IAM) can be used to view and test FHIR resources with InterSystems IRIS for Health. It comes pre-configured with a FHIR server, pre-populated with synthetic patient data. The new InterSystems API Manager (IAM) includes OpenAPI Swagger specs to quickly generate REST client code to work with many common FHIR resources.

Production Manager by Nikolay Soloviev

REST API to manage IRIS Interoperability Productions.

rest-api-contest-template by Evgeny Shvarov

Template repository for InterSystems IIRS REST API Programming Contest

JSON-Filter by Lorenzo Scalese

ObjectScript server-side JSON filter.

objectscript-openapi-definition by Guillaume Rongier

The objectif of this library is to generate the ObjectScript Class from an OpenApi definition.

FHIR-HL7v2-SQL-Demo by Guillaume Rongier

Ready to use a demo of an FHIR Server and HL7v2 transformation to the FHIR Server on IRIS For Health Intersystems The FHIR repo can be a query in SQL.

CloudWatch-IRIS by Anton Umnikov

Configuring AWS CloudWatch with InterSystems IRIS

Hi Community!

The registration phase for the second InterSystems Online Programming Contest has already ended, and now the voting week begins! 

We have 7 applications - so you have a set of applications to choose from!

How to vote?

This is easy: you will have one vote, and your vote goes either in Experts Nomination or in Community Nomination.

Hi community,

This article to give a description of my small library JSON Filter.

Why JSON Filter?

Search, sort data are common operations.

But … How to do this with JSON data?

You can use a %DocDB, It’s a good way for storing JSON and index the main properties.

However, JSON document is very flexible. It isn’t always possible (and not recommended) to index each properties to process the wished queries. A manual processing on a data subset is may be required.

In my opinion, this is not a funny part of the job. It’s a repetitive code with many loops etc.

Hi Developers,

New to machine learning? Watch this video on InterSystems Developers YouTube to understand the basic concepts of machine learning and how it provides value in applications around the world today: 

⏯ What is Machine Learning?

During runtime I build an object which is essentially a wrapper over in-memory table:

I want to use this object as a part of INSERT or UPDATE queries, based on a value of some column (the main use case one of the columns is an ID value)

What's the best way to expose the object to SQL?

I have complete control over object class, so if I need  to add something (or even change runtime internals), it's no

Hi everyone,

The project IRIS History Monitor received an update, using ZPM and the built-in REST API /api/monitor/metrics.

Hi Developers!

As you know in the second contest we introduced technology bonuses. Learn more.

You can see what app got what bonuses in the Technology Bonuses menu:

And here I want to share with you which apps got the bonus. Here we go!

Hey Developers,

We're pleased to invite you to the "Best practices of in-platform AI/ML" webinar by InterSystems on April 28th at 11:00 EST/17:00 CET.

Hi Community,

We're pleased to invite you to join the upcoming InterSystems IRIS 2020.1 Tech Talk: API-First Development on May 5 at 10:00 AM EDT!

In this week's InterSystems IRIS 2020.1 Tech Talk, we'll discuss API-first development and how InterSystems is embracing this industry trend with our API Manager, and specifically with our FHIR offerings. First, we'll talk about InterSystems API Manager. This tool controls your web-based API traffic in a single location. You can throttle throughput, configure payload sizes and whitelist/blacklist IPs, among many other features.

FHIR stands for Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources. Release 4 brings this HL7 standard to maturity, and the FHIR R4 support in InterSystems IRIS for HealthTM is big. You'll learn how to work with FHIR data in InterSystems IRIS, and see our developer portal in action, where you can access FHIR resources using the OpenAPI specification.

i've noticed a strange bug in the 'problem highlighting' of VSCODE and i wasn't sure if this is a problem with the internal library definitions of iris, or with the plug-in itself.

The first line is the correct macro call, but the second one is the one throwing the error. (preprocess vs prepOrocess)

How is this syntax checker's list of strings compiled?

Hi Team,

I am creating an API POST method to which the Web Requests will come. I want to identify that from which device (Mobile, Tablet, Laptop, Ipad etc) the request came. 

Let me know if you need more details from me regarding the question.

Hi Developers!

Want to participate again in the competition of creating open-source solutions using InterSystems IRIS Data Platform? 

Then we're pleased to announce the second InterSystems IRIS Online Programming Contest!

And the topic for this contest is InterSystems IRIS with REST API.

The contest will again last three weeks: April 13-May 3, 2020. 

Also, please join the InterSystems Contests Discord Channel to chat about contest and technology.

I enjoy the challenge of being in a contest. Currently I participate in InterSystems IRIS with REST API Programming Contest. My idea for this contest was to create an app to help me keep track of tasks for my Status Reports. I started with the template provided by Evgeny Shvarov. I created a persistent class for Tasks and a REST Dispatch class. I defined my URL map and I even figured out how to test my REST app using Postman. I felt proud of myself for a little while.

Hi Community!

The new video from Global Summit 2019 is already on InterSystems Developers YouTube:

⏯ System Alerting and Monitoring Made Easy

When I describe InterSystems IRIS to more technically-minded people, I always start with how it is a multimodel DBMS at its core.

In my opinion that is its main advantage (on the DBMS side). And the data is stored only once. You just choose the access API you want to use.

• You want some sort of summary for your data? Use SQL!
• Do you want to work extensively with one record? Use objects!
• Want to access or set one value and you know the key? Use globals!