#InterSystems IRIS

What is a portlet?

The simple answer is: a custom widget. A portlet can exist by itself on a DeepSee dashboard, it can be used along side standard DeepSee widgets, or along side other portlets. The rendering of the custom widget is completely user defined. This means you can embed a web page, create a form to perform any sort of action needed based on the data on your dashboard, use third party charting libraries, or simply display data from outside of a DeepSee cube.

How to get started

I need  to ran a task on a specified days (once a month but a different day each month).

How can I do that in Task Manager?

Hi Community,

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

⏯ The Value of Developing with Containers

If you work with anything other than English, you would earlier or later encounter the characters from the title or just plain ??????????.

Encodings are usually known, but sometimes you just get gibberish and need to make sense of it.

In this cases $zcvt is your friend, the three argument form specifically.

But there are a lot of options. So here's an utility script to check how the text would look like in different encodings:

Hot on the heels of the QEWD-JSdb announcement, QEWD-baseline provides a ready-to-run baseline environment for developing REST APIs.

The QEWD-baseline repository (https://github.com/robtweed/qewd-baseline) includes a fully-detailed tutorial on how to build RESY APIs using QEWD and the QEWD-JSdb database (running of course on IRIS).

https://github.com/robtweed/qewd-baseline/blob/master/REST.md

Included in the tutorial is:

- fully-worked examples, including how to integrate QEWD-JSdb's abstraction of the IRIS database 

- advice on debugging QEWD REST APIs

ObjectScript has at least three ways of handling errors (status codes, exceptions, SQLCODE, etc.). Most of the system code uses statuses but exceptions are easier to handle for a number of reasons. Working with legacy code you spend some time translating between the different techniques. I use these snippets a lot for reference. Hopefully they're useful to others as well.

Hi Community,

This week we have two new videos from Global Summit 2019. Please welcome:

1.   An ML Toolkit for InterSystems IRIS: Co-Innovation in Healthcare

Hi,

   I've heard from two different sources the SMP (or parts of it) and for sure the DTL front end (in studio? via SMP?) have been rewritten to be more modern.  But on a latest IRIS Community download everything looks the same to me.  Am I missing something or is this Marketting Spin?

  ^{Hopefully I won't get banned for this post aswell......}

Olá pessoal,

Compartilho material de um curso desenvolvido por mim, espero que possa ajudar a comunidade.

English:

Hi folks,

I share material from a course developed by me, I hope it can help the community. The material is in Portuguese.
 

Link: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/cristianojs_material-te%C3%B3rico-activity-6608421528906285056-sr8E

Want to see how IRIS can be used in a radically-new way, as a JavaScript-based Multi-model database?

Take a look at QEWD-JSdb: https://github.com/robtweed/qewd-jsdb

Full instructions on how to try it out on the AWS IRIS Community Edition are included in the repository.

Hi folks,

how do people run iris-community edition nowadays? It seems there are some incantations needed that are not documented here: https://hub.docker.com/_/intersystems-iris-data-platform/plans/222f869e-567c-4928-b572-eb6a29706fbd?tab=instructions

When I follow these, I am only getting an error:

Hi Developers!

For those who want to participate in the Advent of Code 2019 and code with ObjectScript in IRIS, I created a very simple but handy Github Template.

Use the green button

to copy template in your own repo, clone the repo and run in the repo folder:

docker-compose up -d

you will get InterSystems IRIS 2019.4 Community Edition running with the template classes to load input data from files and Day1 solution.

This is also set up to start crafting solutions of Advent of Code 2019 and edit, compile and debug ObjectScript with VSCode addon.

Happy coding with Advent of Code 2019!

BridgeWorks is pleased to announce a VDM, v9.1.0.1.  This release includes the following updates:

Updates

• Historical Linking is now based off connection profile name
• Saved Formatting is now based off connection profile name
• Tables and Fields column headers no longer hide based on connection type

Bug Fixes

• Cross tab would not load data correctly in Finished Reports Viewer if it was in a report footer
• Fixed an issue where refreshing logs would not work correctly after viewing a SQL statement
• Views were not visible for available schemas on the connection wizard

New

I have a problem connecting IRIS to Atelier Webapplication.

IRIS Version: IRIS for UNIX (Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86-64) 2019.1.1 (Build 609U) Thu Sep 12 2019 22:40:26 EDT

 When I try to access Atelier API  ( i.e. Webbrowser ) then I can not authorize.

Here is what it looks like:

URL: http://localhost:52773/api/atelier

I put in the valid credentials of a user with a %Developer Role but I am not able to authorize.

The api/atelier web application is enabled in the Management Portal.

I have this bevhavior only with the ReadHat Community Unix version of IRIS. 

Has the Cache install been replaced with IRIS? Sorry if this is a silly question. I remember downloading Cache before and using Cache studio. I can't seem to find a download for that anymore, just IRIS? I did grab that and I'm able to connect Studio to what I need.

If there is still a Cache download, where can I find it?

Thanks!

Hi Community,

We are pleased to invite you to the InterSystems Meetup in Moscow on December 10, 2019! 

InterSystems Moscow Meetup is a pre-New Year meeting for users and developers on InterSystems technologies. The meetup will be devoted to the InterSystems IRIS Data Platform.

Please check out the agenda:

Hi Developers,

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

⏯ Showcase: InterSystems IRIS Directions

I have a class that inherits from %Library.CachePopulateand when I try to compile that class in IRIS I get an error does anyone out there know if this has been decapreated or the equivalent class please, in 2018.2 I can see the class in the documentation but in IRIS there is no reference to it

¡Hi everybody!

As you likely are aware, the new version of InterSystems IRIS for Health (I4H) it's already available in Docker Hub. It's the Community version and is free and fully functional. There have been comments about it in other articles and posts,... so today I won't add anything about features. Here I want to explore "the mistery about the disappearance, or better, absence of our persistent data when we run a container with the durable option"  (I didn't find a terrifying font to emphasize the thriller... post editor is not terrific for styling ) .

Hi Developers,

New video, recorded by @Stefan Wittmann, is already on InterSystems Developers YouTube:

🗣 Multi-Inheritance in a Multi-Model Environment

Currently, many of you has some knowledge about CachéQuality (which is being renamed to objectscriptQuality) for analyzing objectscript code using the rules we have predefined. Probably you have tested it and have found too many warnings in your projects. I'm sure there are issues which are really important for you and some others which you would like to dismiss.

InterSystems has corrected a defect that can cause shadowing to fail with an access violation. In rare cases, the defect can cause memory corruption, leading to unpredictable behavior. 

Note: The defect does not affect mirroring.

This defect affects:

• InterSystems IRIS 2019.1.1 and 2019.3
• IRIS for Health 2019.1.1 and 2019.3
• HealthShare Health Connect 2019.1.1
• HealthShare Health Connect (HSAP) 15.032 on 2018.1.3
• Caché and Ensemble 2018.1.3

In time for InterSystems Global Summit 2019 we at George James Software are pleased to offer a cloud-hosted evaluation environment where you can work with Serenji in Visual Studio Code, editing and debugging ObjectScript in a sandbox running InterSystems IRIS 2019.3 Community edition.

You can do it all from your web browser. Nothing will be installed on your workstation, nor will any settings have to be changed on it.

To take Serenji for a test drive please visit https://georgejames.com/dc-gitpod

Some time ago I developed an application that tackled a familarial problem faced by many developers when required to update multiple UAT or PRODUCTION sites with the latest Software patches that have been developed and tested on your DEV server and now need to be deployed to multiple sites running that software.

In principle the solution works as follows:

1) Prepare an XML export of affected classes/routines/csp pages/hl7 definitions et al

2) Optionally create a global export of any new globals or changes to existing globals

InterSystems Data Platforms products allow you to export and import security settings in two different ways.

This article talks about those options:

• On the command line, using ^SECURITY
• Programmatically, using the Export and Import methods of classes in the Security package

Exporting settings on the command line (^SECURITY)

You can export everything or individual sections of the security settings.

Exporting everything with ^SECURITY

With ^SECURITY, you can export or import all the security settings for an instance very simply. In the Terminal, go to the %SYS namespace and start ^SECURITY:

This quick guide shows how to serve HTTPS requests with InterSystems API Management. Advantage here is that you have your certs on one separated server and you don't need to configure each backend web-server separately.

Here's how:

1. Buy the domain name.

2. Adjust DNS records from your domain to the IAM IP address.

3. Generate HTTPS certificate and private key. I use Let's Encrypt - it's free.

4. Start IAM if you didn't already.

5. Send this request to IAM:

Recently I was fielding some questions that someone had about some bugs that crop up on Docker for Mac, and it reminded me of what Shakespeare wrote in his famous tragedy about large-scale software orchestration, Kubelet: the Prince of Benchmark.

Hello InterSystems Community,

We're excited to announce that we've completed our first Open Exchange submission for InterSystems platforms.

BridgeWorks VDM is an ad hoc reporting and graphical SQL query builder application that was designed for any user who needs access to their SQL projections in InterSystems Caché, InterSystems IRIS, InterSystems IRIS for Health databases as well as access to InterSystems DeepSee and InterSystems IRIS BI Cubes with minimal SQL scripting experience.  

VDM features:

Easily transform a CSV file into a personalized preview of DeepSee - InterSystems BI

AnalyzeThis can be found on InterSystems Open Exchange. Use the Download link to navigate to GitHub and begin installing the project. Follow the “Installation” section of the GitHub README.

InterSystems IRIS supports a unique data structure, called globals, for information storage. Essentially, globals are persistent arrays with multi-level indices, having several extra capabilities—transactions, quick traversal of tree structures, and a programming language known as ObjectScript.

I'd note that for the remainder of the article, or at least the code samples, we'll assume you have familiarised yourself with the basics of globals: