Modules what a topic! We don't have this notion in ObjectScript, but it's a fundamental concept in Python. Let's discover it together.

What is a Module?

I see modules as an intermediate layer between classes and packages. Let see it by example.

A bad example :

# MyClass.py
class MyClass:
    def my_method(self):
        print("Hello from MyClass!")

When you try to use this class in another script, you would do:

# class_usage.py
from MyClass import MyClass # weird, right?

my_instance = MyClass()
my_instance.my_method()

Why this is a bad example?

Hi,

I tried to create a client for Google Cloud Storage using a private endpoint.

like this:

S client=##class(%Net.Cloud.Storage.Client).%New()

S sc=client.CreateClient("",2,credentialsFile,"",.out,privateEndpoint)

But privateEndpoint seems not to be used when trying to send blob from a file:

D sc.UploadBlobFromFile(bucketname,blobname,filename)

We can see at the firewall that the client still tries to use the public endpoint for GCS.  

Even if the private endpoint is definitely reachable.

When we allow the public endpoint in the firewall then it is working as expected.

Is that a bug?

The 2025.1.1 maintenance releases of InterSystems IRIS^® data platform, InterSystems IRIS^® for Health^TM, and HealthShare^® Health Connect are now Generally Available (GA). Please share your feedback through the Developer Community so we can build a better product together.

Documentation

You can find the detailed change lists & upgrade checklists on these pages:

• InterSystems IRIS
• InterSystems IRIS for Health
• HealthShare Health Connect

Early Access Programs (EAPs)

There are many EAPs available now. Check out this page and register to those you are interested.

How to get the software?

Users of the %UnitTest framework can now get test coverage information inside VS Code by combining the latest release (v2.0.0) of the InterSystems Testing Manager extension with @Timothy Leavitt's impressive Test Coverage Tool.

Above you can see the Test Coverage pane, which I have moved to the secondary sidebar on the right so it can more easily be explored in conjunction with the Test Explorer on the left.

Notice how the most recent test run (of all Test Coverage Tool's own unit tests) covered the BitValue method of TestCoverage.Procedures but not the BitCount method (nor 6 other methods).

InterSystems is pleased to announce the General Availability (GA) of the 2025.2 release of InterSystems IRIS® data platform. This is a Continuous Delivery (CD) release. Please note that the GA versions of InterSystems IRIS for Health™ and HealthShare® Health Connect™ 2025.2 are currently withheld due to mirroring limitations introduced by security updates (details below).

Release Highlights

This release introduces impactful enhancements across security, developer experience, operations, and interoperability. Notable new features include:

1.

Working on wrapping an IRIS Cache ObjectScript method that runs for a few seconds. Trying to get UI updates to show BEFORE the method runs in an async/await function. But it seems to be running synchronously rather than asynchronously . So my question is does IRIS/ObjectScript CSP pages support futures with JavaScript or does it run all synchronously.

#InterSystems Demo Games entry

⏯️  The Ultimate 3D Industrial Simulation powered by a Game Engine with InterSystems IRIS

In this demo, InterSystems IRIS Interoperability comes alive in an amazing, game-like user experience based on our Ultimate Control Tower demo. We visualize machines in a virtual 3D factory building, interacting with InterSystems IRIS in real time—displaying current statuses and sensor data, simulating machine outages and predictive maintenance scenarios, and triggering workflow tasks and actions in InterSystems IRIS. By using a mobile app on a tablet—and even a VR headset for a fully immersive experience—we unleash the power of InterSystems IRIS.

Presenters:
🗣 @Stephan Mohr, Sales Engineer, InterSystems
🗣 @Jannis Stegmann, Sales Engineer, InterSystems
🗣 @Benjamin Kiwitz, Intern, InterSystems
🗣 @Tuba Incedag, Intern, InterSystems

Test Objectives

InterSystems has been testing Vector Search since it was announced as an “experimental feature” in IRIS 2024.1. The first test cycle was aimed at identifying algorithmic inefficiencies and performance constraints during the Development/QD cycle. The next test cycle used simple vector searches for single threaded performance analysis to model reliable, scalable and performant behaviour at production database scale in IRIS, and performed a series of comparative tests of key IRIS vector search features against PostgreSQL/pgvector. The current test cycle models the expected behaviour of real-world customer deployments using complex queries that span multiple indices (vector and non-vector) and run in up to 1000 concurrent threads. These tests will be run against IRIS, PostgreSQL/pgvector, and ElasticSearch

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.

Hi Guys, 

I've my users set in Security->Users in SMP, but I get the below error when trying to long in my application, any clues what this error means?  

"0 "_$lb($lb(864,,,,,,,,,$lb(,"US-SERENITY",$lb("e^UsersCSPLogin+87^%SYS.SECURITY^1","e^CSPLogin+103^%SYS.cspServer^1","e^CSPDispatch+909^%SYS.cspServer^1","d^CSPDispatch+907^%SYS.cspServer^1","d^ProcessRequest+1^%CSP.Session.1^1","d^Request+692^%SYS.cspServer2^1","d^Request+25^%SYS.cspServer2^1","d^ProcessRequest+1^%CSP.Request.1^1","d^css+15^%SYS.cspServer2^1","d^Server+64^%SYS.SERVER^2","d^^^0"))))

BTW my login page extends  %CSP.Login

Thanks

Join our next in-person Developer Meetup in Boston to explore the latest trends, tools, and features for innovating on data.
This time we will dive into AI / Agentic AI.

Talk 1
Building Agentic Orchestration Systems
Speaker: @Jayesh Gupta, Solutions Developer, InterSystems

Talk 2
From Research to Production: Building Reliable Multi-LLM Systems for Financial Document Analysis
Speaker: @Nicholai Mitchko, Solution Partner Sales Engineering, InterSystems

>> Register here >>
   

⏱ Day and Time: August 20, 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
📍Amazon Boston Office, 55 Pier 4 Blvd, Boston, MA 02210

HyperEvent Error Details

HTTP Code: 500

Error: Error invoking instance method: SetSearchCriteria:

<INVALID OREF>zInitSearchCriteria+15^EnsPortal.Template.filteredViewer.1

Set %ret = %obj.SetSearchCriteria()

%obj='6@EnsPortal.MessageViewer'

==========

STACK:

zInitSearchCriteria+15^EnsPortal.Template.filteredViewer.1 (1):

zSetSearchCriteria+1^EnsPortal.Template.filteredViewer.1 (1):

zSetSearchCriteria+2^EnsPortal.MessageViewer.1 (1):

@ (1):

zInvokeInstanceMethod+133^%ZEN.Controller.1 (1):

zInvokeInstanceMethod+2^%ZEN.Component.abstractPage.1 (1):

@ (1):

zCSPEvent+10^%CSP.Broker.1 (1):

zOnPage+3^%CSP.Broker.

InterSystems is pleased to announce that version 3.0.5 of the VS Code - ObjectScript extension has been released. This release includes many bug fixes, as well as changes to the telemetry data we collect. Collecting more product usage data helps InterSystems identify and prioritize fixes and enhancements that will have the most positive impact for you, our users. Personally identifiable information (PII) will never be collected, and telemetry can be disabled using the telemetry.telemetryLevel setting. The full list of data points that are collected can be found here.

I am trying to catch an exception and write it to the Application Error Log, but cant find any details on how to do this in IRIS health.

        Catch ex {
            Set logger = ##class(%Logger).%GetLogger("MyApp")
            Do logger.Error($ZError)
        }

Cant seem to find the %Logger class either.

This will be a short article about PEP 8, the Python style guide.

What is PEP 8?

In a nutshell, PEP 8 provides guidelines and best practices on how to write Python code.

I am trying to create users who only have `%SQL` Role for the INSTANCE. But I am unable to find any documentation on the ` Security.Users` class.

See:

    // Instantiate the Security.Users object
    Set userObj = ##class(Security.Users).%New()    
    // Set the username and password
    Set userObj.Name = userName
    Set userObj.FullName = userFullName
    Set userObj.Namespace = "USER"
    Set userObj.Roles = "%SQL"
    Set sc = userObj.ChangePassword(passwd)    
    // Save the user to the database
    Set ss = userObj.

Hi InterSystems Community! I'm Sidd one of the interns at the Singapore office and I recently had the chance to develop to develop a driver to connect IRIS to Metabase to help some of the Sales Engineers here. I was encouraged to share it here so that if any others have a similar issue they can use the driver and as well as get some feedback on potential improvements. The full GitHub repo with the quick start step, brief overview and the driver building process can be found here.

🛠️ Managing InterSystems InterSystems API Manager (IAM = Kong Gateway) configurations in CI/CD

🔍 Context: InterSystems IAM configurations 

As part of integrating InterSystems IRIS into a secure and controlled environment, InterSystems IAM relies on Kong Gateway to manage exposed APIs.
Kong acts as a modern API Gateway, capable of handling authentication, security, traffic management, plugins, and more.

However, maintaining consistent Kong configurations (routes, services, plugins, etc.) across different environments (development, testing, production) is a major challenge.

Hi Community,

Enjoy the new video on InterSystems Developers YouTube:

⏯  From Idea to Impact: The InterSystems Approach @ Global Summit 2024

Hi,

After converting from Ensemble 2018 to IRIS 2024 I noticed that HTML tag is not recognized? 

I just copied & pasted this same from Ensemble to IRIS and in Ensemble looks fine!?

Thanks

Hello everyone,

I'm using EnsLib.TCP.TextLineOutboundAdapter to communicate with a third-party system over TCP/IP. The issue is that the system sends back only an integer (e.g. 1001 or -1) without any terminator (like $c(10)).

The adapter expects a terminator and always times out with ErrTCPTerminatedReadTimeoutExpired, even though the correct data is received. Here an example of an error: 
[TCPSender] Errore nell'invio: ERROR <Ens>ErrTCPTerminatedReadTimeoutExpired: TCP Read timeout (15) expired waiting for terminator 0, data received ='1005'

Trying different terminators (e.g.

Hey Community, 

Last week, the InterSystems team held our monthly Developer Meetup in a new venue for the first time ever! In the AWS Boston office location in the Seaport, over 71 attendees showed up to chat, network, and listen to talks from two amazing speakers. The event was a huge success; we had a packed house, tons of engagement and questions, and attendees lining up to chat with our speakers afterwards! 

Jayesh presents on Testing Frameworks for Agentic Systems to a full house

InterSystems IRIS 2025.2 introduces the IRISSECURITY database, the new home for security data. Unlike IRISSYS, the previous home for security data, IRISSECURITY can be encrypted, which secures your sensitive data at rest. In a future version, IRISSECURITY will be mirrorable.

This version also introduces the %SecurityAdministrator role for general security administration tasks. 

The changes described here affect both continuous delivery (CD) and extended maintenance (EM) release tracks. That is, starting with versions 2025.2 (CD, released on 23 July, 2025) and 2026.

in order to do analysis on huge data volumes, it is better to take you data to a separate machine for analysis away from the operational machine, so trying to write huge globals or tables into files as is would take a huge space, what could be a solution or best practice ?..in python for instance, there is the pickling option (serializes data to byte string and saves it to a file) to save space, what could be best in object script ?

Hi Community!

We’re pleased to announce that several Early Access Programs (EAPs) are now open for registration. These programs provide developers with the opportunity to explore upcoming features and technologies from InterSystems before their general release.

By joining an EAP, you can:

• Evaluate and test new functionality
• Provide direct feedback to product teams
• Help shape the future direction of InterSystems platforms

If you're interested in contributing to the evolution of our tools and getting early insight into what's coming next, we encourage you to review the following available programs and sign up:

At hackathons that InterSystems participated and I supported, many students were asking how all their teammates could use the same IRIS database that they spun up in a container. I suggested using ngrok to expose their localhost IRIS and realized we don't have documentation on that. Hence, I thought this would be great to let more people knwo about this powerful technique for enhancing collaboration during development and testing.

Step-by-Step Guide to Exposing InterSystems IRIS with ngrok

This guide will walk you through the process of exposing your local InterSystems IRIS instance using ngrok.

This will be an introduction to Python programming in the context of IRIS.

Before anything I will cover an important topic: How python works, this will help you understand some issues and limitations you may encounter when working with Python in IRIS.

All the articles and examples can be found in this git repository: iris-python-article

How Python works

Interpreted Language

Python is an interpreted language, which means that the code is executed line by line at runtime even when you import a script.

What does this mean ? Let's take a look at the following code:

# introduction.

Hello Again,

InterSystems Certification is still looking for people to beta test the InterSystems IRIS SQL Professional Certification exam. This is a great way to earn the certification for free! We have extended the deadline of the beta test to October 30, 2025.

Please note, only candidates with the pre-existing InterSystems IRIS SQL Specialist certification are eligible to take the beta.  For details, see the original announcement.

Thank you!

Faced with the enormous and evergrowing amounts of data being generated in the world today, software architects need to pay special attention to the scalability of their solutions. They must also design systems that can, when needed, handle many thousands of concurrent users. It’s not easy, but designing for massive scalability is an absolute necessity.

Software architects have several options for designing scalable systems. They can scale vertically by using bigger machines with dozens of cores. They can use data distribution (replication) techniques to scale horizontally for increasing numbers of users. And they can scale data volume horizontally through the use of a data partitioning strategy. In practice, software architects will employ several of these techniques, trading off hardware costs, code complexity, and ease of deployment to suit their particular needs.

This article will discuss how InterSystems IRIS Data Platform supports vertical scalability and horizontal scalability of both user and data volumes. It will outline several options for distributing and partitioning data and/or user volume, giving scenarios in which each option would be particularly useful. Finally, this paper will talk about how InterSystems IRIS helps simplify the configuration and provisioning of distributed systems.