#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.

Discussion Jeffrey Drumm · Jun 13, 2024

I'm scraping my way through some code that's been around for a while, and came across the use of $ZTRAP and (dear GOD) GOTO for trapping and handling errors.

In an effort to "modernize" it and make it, I don't know, less M-ish (sorry old-timers!), I'm replacing it with Try/Catch blocks.

Some questions:

  1. Is this a dumb idea?
  2. Anything I should look out for?
  3. Did I hurt anyone's feelings?

And if the answer to number 3 is Yes, my deepest apologies ... I love you guys! 🤩

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Article Evgeny Shvarov · Jul 30, 2019 2m read

Hi Developers!

This is the second post on the resources for Developers. This part is about Open Exchange

Using Open Exchange to Learn InterSystems

InterSystems Open Exchange is a applications gallery of tools, connectors, and libraries which InterSystems Developers submit to share the experience, approaches and do business. All the applications are either built with InterSystems data platforms or are intended to use for development with InterSystems data platforms.

If you are a beginner developer you can take a look at applications in Technology Example category. All the applications in this category come with open source code repositories, so you are able to run the samples and examples in a docker container with IRIS on your laptop or in the cloud IRIS sandbox. Examples:

  

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Question Jonathan Lent · May 13, 2024

I would dearly love to avoid manually creating a SEF or XSD file to get the X12 832 (4010) schema into IRIS, but I have been hard pressed to find either downloadable resources or commercial options. The typical recommendation, edi-dev, seems to just do tooling that will help create SEF files, but no longer sells actual SEF files.

Anybody got any good resources that might have these schema files?

Thanks for any help!

Cordially,

Jonathan

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Question Ben Spead · May 29, 2024

Let's say I have an InterSystems IRIS instance with 6 Namespaces:

  • Foo1
  • Foo2
  • Foo3
  • Foo4
  • Foo5
  • Bar

And the number of Foo# namespaces can increase at any time for a number of reasons.  I need to ensure that they all have identical configuration globals stored in a DB called CONFIG, so I do the following in my configuration file:

[Map.%ALL] 
Global_SYS=%DEFAULTDB 
Global_SYS("CommonConfig")=CONFIG 
Global_SYS("CommonOtherSettings")=CONFIG 
Global_SourceControl=CONFIG 

This will ensure that all Namespace see the exact same settings when they reference ^SYS("CommonConfig") or ^SourceControl, etc.

Now.

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Question Pietro Di Leo · Jun 13, 2024

Hello everyone,

Recently, I've been working on a Business Process that processes a large JSON FHIR message containing up to 50k requests in an array within the JSON.

Currently, the code imports the JSON as a dynamic object from the original message stream, obtains an iterator from it, and processes each request one at a time in a loop.

The performance meets the requirements, even with much larger requests than the one exposed above.

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Article Eduard Lebedyuk · Mar 4, 2021 1m read

Recently I wanted to get a list of all cached queries and their texts. Here's how to do that.

First create an SQL Procedure returning Cache Query text from a Cached Query routine name:

Class test.CQ
{

/// SELECT test.CQ_GetText()
ClassMethod GetText(routine As %String) As %String [ CodeMode = expression, SqlProc ]
{
##class(%SQLCatalog).GetCachedQueryInfo(routine)
}

}

And after that you can execute this query:

SELECT Routine, test.CQ_GetText(Routine)
FROM %SQL_Manager.CachedQueryTree()

And get a list of Cached Queries:

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Announcement Jean Millette · Jun 12, 2024

TL;DR: My comment to Microsoft when I voted:Our team has implemented most of what we need for source management of Power BI Report files in Perforce. The missing piece? Automated creation of ".pbix" files from ".pbit" template files that can deployed to the Power BI Report Server. Let's get the manual “Power BI Desktop->File->Save As” step out of the process to make report deployment totally automated.

Our team has implemented change management for some critical Power BI Reports used by other teams at InterSystems. We do this by extracting the “.

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Question Parameshwaran Muthaiyan · Apr 11, 2024

I'm facing a challenge in dynamically generating SQL queries based on incremental q_ids for a project I'm working on. Here's the scenario:

  • I have a table log_reports that contains logs of service activities, including timestamps and associated q_ids.
  • Each service log entry is associated with a cls and a q.
  • My goal is to generate SQL queries that calculate statistics such as average, minimum, and maximum time differences between the log creation time and the current timestamp, for each combination of cls_id and q_id.
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Question Stefan Schick · Jun 12, 2024

Hello Community,

I have encountered the following SQL problem trying to create a table from a SELECT statement.

I narrowed the problem down to the following example:

1. The SELECT statement alone works as expected.

SELECT m.Name, h.Status 
FROM EnsLib_HL7.Message m, Ens.MessageHeader h 
WHERE h.MessageBodyClassName='EnsLib.HL7.Message' AND h.MessageBodyID = m.ID

2. But if "CREATE TABLE ... AS" is added it fails

CREATE TABLE UKEr.Test AS
SELECT m.Name, h.Status
FROM EnsLib_HL7.Message m, Ens.MessageHeader h
WHERE h.MessageBodyClassName='EnsLib.HL7.Message' AND h.
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Question Stella Ticker · Jun 11, 2024

We have an operation that sends a Rest request to an external endpoint. The request includes the secret, which shows up in the Message Viewer. While access to the Production is restricted to only those who need it, we have been asked to remove it from the Message Traces. Is there a way to hide certain information on the Message Viewer ?

Thanks for reading

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Question Carl Maklad · Jun 10, 2024

Hi,

I will try to explain my problem. I have a Main ZenPage on one server that has 2 buttons: each button will launch a different ZenPage on a separate server in an iFrame. All 3 servers have the same user.

Currently, the user logs in to the Main ZenPage, but when they click either button to launch the other ZenPage on the separate server they get the login screen again to login to that server.

Is there anyway I can pass the credentials from the Main ZenPage to the child ZenPages, so that the user doesn't have to login again? Thanks.

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Announcement Anastasia Dyubaylo · Jun 11, 2024

Hey Community,

Watch this video to learn how the InterSystems AppServices team migrated a data lake powering a suite of marketing reports off of Microsoft SQL Server to InterSystems IRIS, leading to such benefits as lower maintenance, better performance, and a better overall development fit:

⏯ Migrating Our Data Lake from MS SQL Server to InterSystems IRIS @ Global Summit 2023

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Article Evgeny Shvarov · Jul 28, 2019 2m read

Hi Developers!

Recently I was asked, “How can a beginner in InterSystems technologies learn from InterSystems Developers community content to improve his developer skills”?

This is a really good question. It has several answers so I decided to write the post with the hope it could be useful for developers.

So! How to learn Intersystems Data Platforms(IRIS, IRIS for Health) from InterSystems Developers community content if you are a beginner?

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Article Luis Angel Pérez Ramos · Apr 29, 2024 5m read

For some time I have been planning to do some type of proof of concept with the Workflow functionality, which, like so many other functionalities present in IRIS, tends to go quite unnoticed by our clients (and for which I say mea culpa). That's why I decided a few days ago to develop an example of how to configure and exploit this functionality by connecting it with a user interface developed in Angular.

To avoid a very long article and make it more accessible, I am going to divide it into 3.

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Article Luis Angel Pérez Ramos · Jun 7, 2024 7m read

Finally and with a little delay, we conclude this series of articles about our Workflow Engine by showing an example of the connection that we could make from a mobile application.

In the previous article we showed the example that we were going to discuss, an application that allows detailed control of a chronic pathology such as hypertension for both the patient and their associated doctor.

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Question Andy Stobirski · Jun 6, 2024

Hi

I have a question about terminal, when I run a class from it that contains an error I get a report of error as I would expect, and then an apparently random three letter code is appended to the namespace name in the prompt, as shown below.

GMMHTIE>do ##class(temp.Nothing).What()
 
 w !, tParisAnswer
      ^
<UNDEFINED>zWhat+23^temp.Nothing.1 *tParisAnswer
GMMHTIE 2d1>

Then, when I try to enter a command I get an error

GMMHTIE 2d1>do ##class(temp.Nothing).What()
 
DO ##class(temp.Nothing).What()
^
<COMMAND>^temp.Nothing.

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Article Theo Stolker · Feb 2, 2024 9m read

In a customer project I was asked how you can keep track of database changes: Who changed what at which date and time. Goal was to track insert, update and delete for both SQL and object access.

This is the table that I created to keep the Change Log:

/// Changelog, keep track of changes to any table
Class ChangeLog.DB.ChangeLog Extends (%Persistent, %JSON.
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Article Nicholai Mitchko · Apr 12, 2022 2m read

Background

In InterSystems IRIS versions >=2021.2 we can use the accompanying irispython binary to directly write python code on top of our IRIS instances. This lets us use python packages, call methods, make SQL queries, and do nearly anything in Objectscript but pythonic.

For example, below I check if a namespace is present:

#!/usr/irissys/bin/irispython
import iris
# call arbitrary class methods
result = iris.cls('%SYS.Namespace').Exists('USER')
if result == 1:
    print(f"Namespace USER is present")

But, what if my method in IRIS has special parameters such as Output and ByRef parameters?

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Announcement Shane Nowack · Jun 6, 2024

Hello Everyone,

The Certification Team of InterSystems Learning Services is developing an InterSystems ObjectScript Specialist certification exam, and we are reaching out to our community for feedback that will help us evaluate and establish the contents of this exam.  Please note that this is one of two exams being developed to replace our InterSystems IRIS Core Solutions Developer exam. You can find more details about our InterSystems IRIS Developer Professional exam here.

How do I provide my input? Complete our Job Task Analysis (JTA) survey!

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InterSystems Official Raj Singh · Jun 5, 2024

Note: this was originally posted on June 5, 2024 but presented as being posted on May 9, 2024 so this re-post fixes the date. 

Recent updates to the Intersystems Language Server introduce many significant enhancements aimed at improving developer experience and productivity. I'll talk about some of the key ones here, while the complete list, including numerous bug fixes, can be found in the Language Server's CHANGELOG.

Detailed descriptions for syntax errors

In the past, all syntax errors were reported simply as "Syntax error.

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Article Yuri Marx · Oct 13, 2022 2m read

If you want to get the initial and last day of a month, I have a ClassMethod to you (version 2, fixed an error found by Eduard):

ClassMethod GetMonthPeriods(InitialYear As%Integer, EndYear As%Integer) As%Status
{
    set sc = $$$OKset result = []
    For CurrentYear = InitialYear:1:EndYear {
        For CurrentMonth = 1:1:12 {
            set item = {}
            If CurrentMonth < 10 {
                Set CurrentMonthStr = "0"_CurrentMonth
            } Else {
                Set CurrentMonthStr = ""_CurrentMonth
            }
            Set item.
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Announcement Shane Nowack · Apr 22, 2024

Hello IRIS Community,

InterSystems Certification is developing a certification exam for InterSystems IRIS SQL specialists, and if you match the exam candidate description given below, we would like you to beta test the exam. The exam will be available for beta testing on June 9 - 12, 2024 at InterSystems Global Summit 2024, but only for Summit registrants (visit this page to learn more about Certification at GS24). Beta testing will open for all other interested beta testers on June 24, 2024. However, interested beta testers should sign up now by emailing certification@intersystems.com (please let us know if you will be beta testing at Global Summit or in our online proctored environment). The beta testing must be completed by August 2, 2024.

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