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.
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Are you working with large tables? See how partitioning helps you manage and query your data:
Today I have published a new Open Exchange package for generation of Synthetic Data directly into IRIS.
It can be a frustrating process to find decent datasets when you are looking to make a demo app. Maybe the dataset doesn't matter that much, but you still want it to appear somewhat genuine and with several linked tables that are usable directly within IRIS with the neat implicit joins with ->. Maybe you just want linked tables that are easily installable with IPM to benchmark queries, this dataset generation would be perfect.
This demo walks you through the new Table Partitioning feature in IRIS SQL, explaining what it does and how it works along the way. We'll only use a few dozen rows to prove the concept, but obviously the capability is focused on datasets many orders of magnitude larger.
If you'd like a shorter, higher-level introduction to Table Partitioning, check out the online learning module Managing Tables with Partitioning in InterSystems IRIS
ℹ️ Table Partitioning is included in IRIS 2026.1 as an experimental feature
In last post I talked about iris-copilot, an apparent vision that in near future any human language is a programming language for any machines, systems or products. Its agent runners were actually using such so-called 3rd generation of agents. I want to keep/share a detailed note on what it is, for my own convenience as well. It was mentioned a lot times in recent conversations that I was in, so probably worth a note.
Since our previous announcement, we have introduced several incremental improvements to the client‑side editing experience in VS Code. These updates focus on preserving developer‑authored formatting when synchronizing with the server.
Client‑side *.cls files previously lost certain formatting details during compilation, including keyword casing (e.g., classmethod → ClassMethod), normalization of blank lines between class members, and removal of line breaks within parameter lists.
The George James Software team is looking forward to going to National Harbor for READY 2026!
As part of the conference, we'll be hosting our Deltanji Source Control User Group:
Date: Wednesday, April 29th
Time: 8 - 9am (breakfast will be provided)
Location: Azalea 1
RSVP by emailing laurelj@georgejames.com.
We'll be showing what will be included in the next release of Deltanji, version 8.2, as well as providing an opportunity for questions and discussion. We welcome both current and prospective users to join us.
The Management Portal doesn't have a native way to switch to Dark Mode. This can be resolved using a Chrome extension called Dark Reader. See the result:
To install and use the Dark Reader:
I'm starting to play more with AI enabled coding.
I've been using Github Copilot inside Visual studio code, which is very good at coming up with autocomplete suggestions that are accurate and useful. (Along with some utter rubbish, naturally).
For web development I'm starting to use Claude Code in VS Code to help create web sites and integrations. I want to see how it can help with IRIS development.
However I can't get claude to read any iris code directly as I'm connected to my server via isfs server connections.
This article reflects my recent experiences at trying to connect an IRIS Business Operation to a secure Kafka Server, using SSL tunnels to encrypt the communications and using SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) password hashing with SCRAM-SHA-512.
Most IRIS developers use $LISTBUILD every day — often without even noticing it.
It is not just a convenient function for building lists. It is also the default internal format used to store row data, global values, and many intermediate structures inside the database engine.
Despite this, the actual binary representation of $LISTBUILD values is rarely discussed. Most developers rely on its behavior, but never look at how the data is really stored.
This article focuses strictly on the binary layout of $LISTBUILD values, based on direct inspection via zzdump.
This is the second part of an article pair where I walk you through:
As mentioned the goal is to give you a smooth “first run” experience.
I need a %SYS.Python object that will be accessible from different processes. The goal is to avoid reinitializing the Python object whenever it is called. Ways that I checked and decided that it is NOT what I want:
Next, my ideas (none of them look like a silver bullet):
A microservice is an architectural style that structures an application as a collection of small, autonomous services. Each component is developed around a specific business capability, can be deployed independently, and is typically managed by a miniature, specialized, self-governing team. (Source: https://microservices.io/)
During my work with customers and also following I often met the
explicit or embedded question: What is this "GLOBALS" ?
I'll try to explain the history to unfold the context.
Has anyone done this successfully? Customer wants to receive HL7 data over https using OAUTH 2.0 client credentials. I am assuming a custom Operation will be needed? I tried using CoPilot for assistance but was unsuccessful. I am not great with Object script :(
Hey Developers,
Watch this video to learn about the analytics approach to InterSystems IRIS encryption and how it interacts with in-storage data compression and deduplication compared to storage-level encryption:
Hi Community,
Are you looking for resources to help your team onboard? Use these guides to get started!
Updated 04/16/26
Hi Community,
You can unlock the full potential of InterSystems IRIS—and help your team onboard—with the full range of InterSystems learning resources offered online and in person, for every role in your organization. Developers, system administrators, data analysts, and integrators can quickly get up to speed.
I'm a huge sci-fi fan, but while I'm fully onboard the Star Wars train (apologies to my fellow Trekkies!), but I've always appreciated the classic episodes of Star Trek from my childhood. The diverse crew of the USS Enterprise, each masterminding their unique roles, is a perfect metaphor for understanding AI agents and their power in projects like Facilis. So, let's embark on an intergalactic mission, leveraging AI as our ship's crew and boldly go where no man has gone before
Customer support questions span structured data (orders, products 🗃️), unstructured knowledge (docs/FAQs 📚), and live systems (shipping updates 🚚). In this post we’ll ship a compact AI agent that handles all three—using:
InterSystems FAQ rubric
There is data, such as execution log data, that you do not want to return to its previous state even if a rollback occurs during a transaction. The above requirement can be met by placing that data in the IRISTEMP database, which will not be rolled back.
Temporary Globals and the IRISTEMP Database
By mapping the table entities you do not want to roll back to this database, you can retain the information after the rollback.
Introduction
InterSystems IRIS Adaptive Analytics is an optional extension that provides a business-oriented, virtual data model layer between InterSystems IRIS and popular Business Intelligence (BI) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) client tools. Adaptive Analytics is powered by AtScale, the AtScale documentation can be found at this link: https://documentation.intersystems.atscale.com
This article will showcase some AtScale features that can facilitate data analysis:
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The InterSystems Learning Website has many important iterative courses.
The 2025.1.4 and 2024.1.6 maintenance releases of InterSystems IRIS® data platform, InterSystems IRIS® for Health, and InterSystemsHealth Connect™ are now Generally Available (GA). These releases include the fixes for a number of recently issued alerts and advisories, including the following:
One of the newest features of .Net core 10 with C# 14 is the file-based apps. This feature allows you to execute C# code in a simple .cs file without the need to create a solution, a project, or any of the related structure.
For example you can create a script.cs file using the notepad with the content:
Console.WriteLine(“This is a script in c#.”);Then in the command line or the terminal you execute the command:
dotnet run script.csThere is plenty of information about this new feature of .net 10.
Before finding the best solution for Supply Chain, we need to understand what Supply Chain is. Well, regardless of the language used, the term is known by the name already mentioned. For your information, the translation in Brazilian Portuguese is "Cadeia de Suprimentos" (Supply Chain), sometimes also called "Cadeia Logística" (Logistics Chain), but we will not dwell on the nomenclature, but rather on the meaning.
Hi, every one. Again, it's me!!😀😀
Recently I was trying to organize some learning materials for InterSystems IRIS😆, and realized that the resources are actually quite scattered.🤐
So I put together a list here—grouped by categories—for anyone who:
Also adding some of my own experience on what worked (and what didn’t, may be only not work for me🤫🤐).
If you don’t know where to begin, start here:
While starting with Intersystems IRIS or Cache, developers often encounter three core concepts: Dynamic Objects, Globals & Relational Table. Each has its role in building scalable and maintainable solutions. In this article, we'll walk through practical code examples, highlight best practices, and show how these concepts tie together.
1. Working with Dynamic Objects:
Dynamic objects (%DynamicObject and %DynamicArray) allow developers to manipulate JSON-like structures directly in Objectscript. They are especially useful for modern applications that need to parse, transform or generate JSON.
Over the past year there have been a few DC articles offering MCP servers designed to connect to IRIS and help the AI features of VS Code and its cousins do a better job. For example:
I use cspa24.so Apache module to connect to IRIS. I have notified that idle Apache processes will always result in connections being kept open to the IRIS server, and thus some amount of IRIS processes being kept alive (and dedicated to those apache processes) because of those connections.
Eg: if I have 50 idle Apache processes, I will have 50 IRIS processes being kept alive in IRIS even if there is no client connection being made at that time.
It's even worse with multiple Apache nodes and a load balancer.