Let's do a round of code golf! Last one was very popular!

The Chinese zodiac is a repeating cycle of 12 years, with each year being represented by an animal and an element that changes every 2 years.
The animals are: Rat, Ox, Tiger, Rabbit, Dragon, Snake, Horse, Goat, Monkey, Rooster, Dog and Pig.
The elements are: Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal and Water.
Your task is to write a function that receives a year, and returns the element and the animal that year represent.
Let's use the year 1924 as start point, in the Chinese zodiac the element was Wood and the animal was Rat.

Input

2023

Output

"Water Rabbit"

Hi Developers,

Join our next online Developer Roundtable on October 31 at 10 am ET | 3 pm CET. Our experts will cover two topics:

1. "Deploying Python Applications" - by @Evgeny Shvarov, Senior Manager of Developer and Startup Programs, InterSystems
2. "Deploying Java project + InterSystems IRIS in Docker" - by @Luis Angel Pérez Ramos, Sales Engineer, InterSystems

We will have time for Q&A and open discussion.

Update: Watch the recording below.

Hi,

An exception occurs randomly. I expect the value of ^TEST to be 20, but it's not. Did i miss something like closing, flush the stream or locking the global?

Exception

<ILLEGAL VALUE>%SaveData+15^%Stream.GlobalCharacter.1×PRAX1Í+^%SaveData+15^%Stream.GlobalCharacter.1^1)e^%SerializeObject+6^%Stream.Object.1^2e^%Save+9^%Stream.Object.1^93e^zCopyFromAndSave+58^%Stream.GlobalCharacter.1^1e^test+11^ry^1e^test+3^ry^4d^^^0

Testcode

Hello,

One of my students experiences a problem these last couple of days with downloading IRIS for MacOS. She gets this error message:

Where/how can she download it?

I've written a stored procedure for SQL as follows. The second parameter is a search path that may use a single quote or bracket as part of its expression.

When the expression uses a single quote, I can double it within SQL, and it works well. In this example, 'testDate' is written as ' ' testDate ' ' .

Select HISOL_MEAS.SQLProc_JSONpath(fullAnnotation,'HbA1cTests.sort(''testDate'',false).resultValue') As reverseSortedTests

In the next example I'd like to use brackets (see below), which causes an error.  

Does the Version of the Web Gateway have to match the version of IRIS that is currently running? Or are they independent of each other since they are different components? I am looking to install the Web Gateway (non-PWS) as we move forward with securing our Management Portal and VS Code connections using TLS.

Thanks

Scott

This article is a simple quick starter (what I did was) with SqlDatabaseChain.

Hope this ignites some interest.

Many thanks to:

sqlalchemy-iris author @Dmitry Maslennikov

Your project made this possible today.

The article script uses openai API so caution not to share table information and records externally, that you didn't intend to.

A local model could be plugged in , instead if needed.

Creating a new virtual environment

Hi Community,

We're excited to share with you the recording of the next webinar in the series of InterSystems UKI Tech Talk:

👉 Analytics Capabilities using InterSystems IRIS 👈

I am very new to IRIS. We are developing a PHP application that connects to an IRIS instance of one of our vendors. I am having trouble with a specific table. When I need to query this specific table for specific fields, I am receiving an error. However, if I change the call to get all columns (`*`), there is no error. I get 37K records returned.

Error:

InterSystems will end support for using the VxFS filesystem with InterSystems IRIS and label it as deprecated as of the release of InterSystems IRIS 2023.3.  InterSystems will continue to support any existing customers using the technology, but it is no longer recommended for new deployments.

VxFS had only been supported on SUSE Linux.  Impacted customers are encouraged to migrate to XFS or another supported filesystem.

Customers with questions should reach out to their account team or contact me directly.

InterSystems FAQ rubric

Information on properties defined in a class can be obtained using the following system classes:

%Dictionary.ClassDefinetion

%Dictionary.PropertyDefinition

The code description example is as follows.

Following the documentation to insert into tableA from tableB in the SQL query box from the Management Portal :

INSERT INTO tableA (col1, col2)
SELECT col1, col2
FROM tableB

This straightforward query raises the following error :

Error #5475: routine compilation error : %sqlcq.TESTuNAMESPACE.cls305. Errors: %sqlcq.TESTuNAMESPACE.cls305.cls
ERROR: %sqlcq.TESTuNAMESPACE.csl305.1(14) :
<UNDEFINED>parseExtFrom+19^%qaqcmx
*mt("f", "1^TABLEA") :

Could someone help me decipher this error message ? Thanks for your help.

I have a sub class that calls a method in the parent class it is derived from.

However in the below code a <NO CURRENT OBJECT> error is thrown.

Set propertyValue = $PROPERTY($THIS,name)

Using the debugger  I can see $THIS is returning the name of the subclass as it should and name is the correct property name (worth noting some properties are defined in the superclass not the subclass).

Why is this error ocouring and how can I fix it?

In this series of articles, I'd like to present and discuss several possible approaches toward software development with InterSystems technologies and GitLab. I will cover such topics as:

• Git 101
• Git flow (development process)
• GitLab installation
• GitLab Workflow
• Continuous Delivery
• GitLab installation and configuration
• GitLab CI/CD
• Why containers?
• Containers infrastructure
• CD using containers
• CD using ICM
• Container architecture

In this article, we would talk about building your own container and deploying it.

I was attempting to find a solution to grant clients anonymous access to certain API endpoints while securing others within my REST API. However, when defining a Web Application, you can only secure the entire application and not specific parts of it.

If interested email to me at jwalkerbdrsolutionsllc.com

End of support for CentOS

CentOS will no longer be a supported development platform as of the release of InterSystems IRIS 2023.3. 

CentOS had been a supported development platform to give developers a free-to-use equivalent to Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) for IRIS development.  As you're probably aware, Red Hat made significant changes to CentOS which moved it to being “upstream” of RHEL. This means it has bugs & features not yet included in RHEL, which can cause problems for developers building on the platform.

Hi Developers,

Dive into the latest video on InterSystems Developers YouTube:

⏯ Working with Containers & InterSystems Technology @ Global Summit 2023

Hi Friends,

We have a requirement to read pdf text in ensemble object script code. As object script doesn't have direct solution , i tried to implement python code , but

iris 2020 , there is no support for python in object script.

so I have found one java utill using pdfbox api.

Now I have created jar and want to register into iris and want to make a call to mymethod to read pdf text.

please help me to way forward to achieve it.

java code:

============

import os

# Get environment variables
db_host = os.getenv('DB_HOST')
db_port = os.getenv('DB_PORT')
db_namespace = os.getenv('DB_NAMESPACE')
db_username = os.getenv('DB_USERNAME')
db_password = os.getenv('DB_PASSWORD')

# Create a database connection
conn = irisnative.createConnection(db_host, db_port, db_namespace, db_username, db_password)

# Create an IRIS instance from this connection
iris_native = irisnative.createIris(conn)

status = iris_native.classMethodValue('%SYSTEM.OBJ', 'Load', 'Production.cls', 'ck')

Effective documentation is a cornerstone of software development, aiding in code comprehension, maintenance, and collaboration. By harnessing the power of Doxygen and the ObjectScript filter I've created, you can generate rich static documentation from your source code. This approach does not require a running IRIS instance and thus is a good choice in situations when access to IRIS is not possible. Static documentation may be provided to end-users as-is, together with the source code.

Introduction

Managing InterSystems Servers - Virtual  November 6-10, 2023

• This five-day course teaches system and database administrators how to install, configure and secure InterSystems server software, configure for high availability and disaster recovery, and monitor the system. Students also learn troubleshooting techniques.
• This course is applicable to both InterSystems IRIS and Caché. Although the course is mostly platform independent, students can complete the exercises using either Windows or Ubuntu.

Self-Register Here

Two extended maintenance releases of InterSystems IRIS, InterSystems IRIS for Health, and HealthShare Health Connect are now available.

✅ 2022.1.4

Release 2022.1.4 provides bug fixes for any of the previous 2022.1.x releases.

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

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

✅ 2023.1.2

Release 2023.1.2 provides bug fixes for any of the previous 2023.1.x releases.

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

Hello Community,

I got the below error while creating a new database.

Hello Community,

I've enabled the JWT Authentication in my web application. I invoked the /login page to get the JWT and it creates an entry in %SYS.TokenAuth table. Is there any time span for the entries will rid out from the table automatically or It's  a manual process? Where can I find the JWT signature private/public key 

settings screenshot

web application

For the upcoming Python contest, I would like to make a small demo, on how to create a simple REST application using Python, which will use IRIS as a database. Using this tools

• FastAPI framework, high performance, easy to learn, fast to code, ready for production
• SQLAlchemy is the Python SQL toolkit and Object Relational Mapper that gives application developers the full power and flexibility of SQL
• Alembic is a lightweight database migration tool for usage with the SQLAlchemy Database Toolkit for Python.
• Uvicorn is an ASGI web server implementation for Python.

Will it hurt anything if I disable the user that installed IRIS, within IRIS? Does this cause a problem with background processes running or with the restart? I know the _Ensemble user is used to start/stop/restart objects within IRIS, just didn't see anything in the documentation about the user that installed IRIS.

Thanks

Scott

Saw the other day an article with the usage of the %ZEN package when working with JSON and decided to write an article describing a more modern approach. At some recent point, there was a big switch from using %ZEN.Auxiliary.* to dedicated JSON classes. This allowed to work with JSONs more organically.

Thus, at this point there are basically 3 main classes to work with JSON:

• %Library.DynamicObject - provides a simple and efficient way to encapsulate and work with standard JSON documents. Also, there is a possibility instead of writing the usual code for creating an instance of a class like

set obj = ##class(%Library.DynamicObject).%New()

it is possible to use the following syntax

set obj = {}

• %Library.DynamicArray - provides a simple yet efficient way to encapsulate and work with standard JSON  arrays. With arrays you can use the same approach as with objects, meaning that yu can either create an instance of the class

set array = ##class(%DynamicArray).%New()

set array = []

Hi everyone, 

My problem today is how to send an HTTP message to a web service deployed via Render and gunicorn. 

Issue

Every time I try to contact the web service I get an error. Searching on the web, I've found this StackOverflow question that suggests the issue could be set off from a missing "/" character in the endpoint string.

I've tried in many ways, both including and excluding the final slash character, but I always get an error:

I am trying to move us to Securing the Management Portal using Apache and the Web Gateway.

Our Development environment/namespace only has 1 server, but both Test and Production have failover/DR mirroring containing 3 servers for Test, and 3 additional servers for Production. 

• Development - 1 server
• Test -2 server's setup for Failover, and 1 Async DR Mirror
• Production - 2 servers' setup for Failover, and 1 Async DR Mirror

In Test and Production, the mirroring is setup using an Arbiter and the VIP address is controlled at the Hardware level.