#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.

Question Deák Tamás · Nov 23, 2025

Hello word!

I am new in this field and i am coming from the dot net and angular world.
So hello to everyone!

Im trying to understand the unit test in the vs code what is works in the community version at home (25.2).
I set the  ^UnitTestRoot to somewhere and setted the "unitest: enabled" setting in the settings.json file. 
But it is not work and can't run. Is't it scan? It is not a problem because i can run it dircetley with ##class(classname).RunTest() and it runs but doesn't contain anyting. The Restresult is exist but it is empty.
I think the system is does not understand that the test can find

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Article Julio Esquerdo · Nov 21, 2025 1m read

Hi,

When we open a terminal in IRIS, we are entering the ObjectScript shell. Within this shell, we can execute IRIS commands, such as:

In other words, the ObjectScript command is executed in the current shell. But it's always good to remember that IRIS has other shells

  • SQL
  • Python
  • TSQL
  • MDX

One very interesting aspect is shortcuts. We can access these shells through their calls or via shortcuts, as shown in the table below:

Shell

Call

Shortcut

SQL

Do $SYSTEM.SQL.Shell()

:sql

Python

Do $SYSTEM.Python.Shell

:py

TSQL

Do $SYSTEM.SQL.TSQLShell()

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Article Haddon Baker · Nov 21, 2025 2m read

As part of improvements regarding CCR usage and usability, certain transitions are now blocked when a CCR Record has undeployed ItemSets for required Environments. 

To promote best practice, when a Tier 1 or Tier 2 CCR moves between Environments, it is important that ItemSets are deployed to required Environments before confirming that the CCR has successfully been implemented in the next Environment.Previously, when progressing a CCR from one Environment to the next, users were not required to deploy ItemSets before performing markMoveToXXXXComplete or markCANCELComplete transitions.

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Article Padmaja Konduru · Nov 21, 2025 1m read

Terminal Commands for Production:

  • Production Start, Stop, Update, Recover and Clean Production

Do ##class(Ens.Director).StartProduction(“ProductionName”)

Do ##class(Ens.Director).StopProduction()

Do ##class(Ens.Director).UpdateProduction()

Do ##class(Ens.Director).RecoverProduction()

Do ##class(Ens.Director).CleanProduction()

Abort Messages in the queue:

               d ##class(Ens.Queue).AbortQueue(“Component Name”)

Get InstanceName :

              W !,##class(%SYS.System).GetUniqueInstanceName()

Get Node Name:

              W  !,##class(%SYS.System).GetNodeName()

Terminate JobId :

   d

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Article Vachan C Rannore · Nov 21, 2025 3m read

Hola amigo! 😊 Cómo estás hoy,

I would like to share a small part of my learnings from my first ever official project: POS/EDC machine integration with our billing system. This was an exciting challenge where I got hands-on experience working with APIs and vendors. 

How does a Payment Machine actually work?

It's simple, start by initiating/creating a transaction, then retrieve its payment status.

Here, initiate/create refers to POST method and Retrieve refers to GET.

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Article Dan Pasco · Jan 19, 2024 4m read

IRIS 2023.3.0 ASQ

Abstract Set Query, ASQ, is a super set of JSON Path Language, JPL, which was first introduced by the 2016 ISO SQL Standard. JPL is only defined within the context of SQL. In 2023.3, we introduced classes that implement ASQ. It works on any implementation of %Library.AbstractSet. The complete syntax for ASQ will be documented later. This is just a quick introduction to a few of its features. This implementation comes with a nice utility as well. You will know it when you see it!

First, let's get some data from the NHL database.This step requires a valid SSL/TLS configuration.

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Question Touggourt · Nov 19, 2025

Hi,

We currently have a zen page we created to show all existing tasks and their states (Running or Stopped) as below, is the a way to do the same and create a page where we can list all Business Services of a production, state and to either Stop or restart them?  

Thanks

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Article Iryna Mykhailova · Nov 20, 2025 4m read

For developers building external applications, especially those using familiar technologies like C#ODBC (Open Database Connectivity) is a crucial, standardized bridge to any relational database, including InterSystems IRIS. While InterSystems offers its own native ADO.NET provider, the ODBC driver is often the most straightforward path for integration with generic database tools and frameworks.

Here is a step-by-step guide to getting your C# application connected to an IRIS instance using the ODBC driver, focusing on DSN-less connection string.

Step 1: Install the InterSystems IRIS ODBC Driver

The InterSystems ODBC driver is installed by default when you install InterSystems IRIS on a Windows machine.

  • If IRIS is on the same machine: The driver is already present.
  • If IRIS is on a remote server: You must download and install the standalone ODBC client driver package for your client operating system (Windows, Linux, or macOS) and bitness (32-bit or 64-bit) from WRC website if you're a client or by installing Client components and copying ODBC driver.

Once installed, you can verify its presence in the ODBC Data Source Administrator tool on Windows (look for the InterSystems IRIS ODBC35 driver).

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Question Arber Limaj · Nov 19, 2025

Hi everyone,
I'm getting prepared to take the following certification exam: "InterSystems IRIS Development Professional".

Can you give some advice on how to prepare (aside from the official course page: https://www.intersystems.com/certifications/intersystems-iris-development-professional/ )?
Do you have examples of quiz questions that simulate the real exam or any material that helped you getting prepared?

Thanks you in advance,

Arber

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Question Matthias Thon · Nov 18, 2025

Hello 

I'm using from visual code. My routines are server-side files. If I try to search patterns in files (e.g find all routines containing the string "version=3") , the search runs but didn't find anything. If I do the same search from the management portal, it finds all routines including this pattern with a good performance.

regards Matthias

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Article Yuri Marx · Nov 18, 2025 11m read

Modern data architectures utilize real-time data capture, transformation, movement, and loading solutions to build data lakes, analytical warehouses, and big data repositories. It enables the analysis of data from various sources without impacting the operations that use them. To achieve this, establishing a continuous, scalable, elastic, and robust data flow is essential. The most prevalent method for that is through the CDC (Change Data Capture)  technique. CDC monitors for small data set production, automatically captures this data, and delivers it to one or more recipients, including analytical data repositories. The major benefit is the elimination of the D+1 delay in analysis, as data is detected at the source as soon as it is produced, and later is replicated to the destination.

This article will demonstrate the two most common data sources for CDC scenarios, both as a source and a destination. For the data source (origin), we will explore the CDC in SQL databases and CSV files. For the data destination, we will use a columnar database (a typical high-performance analytical database scenario) and a Kafka topic (a standard approach for streaming data to the cloud and/or to multiple real-time data consumers).

Overview

This article will provide a sample for the following interoperability scenario:

 

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Article Robert Cemper · Nov 16, 2025 2m read

In my previous article, I structured network communications
in these 3 possible layers, and covered the last

  • Client <---> Transport
  • Server <---> Transport
  • Client <---> Server

In fact, you have the most control over the last one.
The IRIS side as a server is yours and under your full control. 
Up to now, the Transport layer was assumed to be as passive as a bare wire.

This assumption should be verified. I once met a Windows environment with
a quite surprising setup where a Firewall-like filter was isolating internal
processes and causing a lot of trouble.

? What can you do about the  Transport

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Article Robert Cemper · Nov 16, 2025 3m read

Chasing errors or misbehavior in the network can be quite a challenge.
Differently to  a local application on the DB server, you always have at least 3 players:

  • A client  to place a request 
  • some kind of transport layer
  • and a server to provide a reply.

This results in a minimum of 3 possible communication layers

  • Client <---> Transport
  • Server <---> Transport
  • Client <---> Server

The last one is probably the easiest  to check, while the other 
two deal with the same counterpart just from opposite sides.

?  Do both ends use the same communication protocol ?

I met more than once that one end

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Discussion Dmitry Maslennikov · Nov 14, 2025

Over the past several years, the InterSystems Developer Community has accumulated more than 1,000 open-source projects. Many of them serve as examples and learning materials — but a significant number have become useful tools, libraries, integrations, and real-world components used in production.

Some of these projects are mine, and like many community developers, I’ve seen the same recurring problem:

  • It’s easy to create an open-source project.
  • It’s hard to maintain, support, and develop it sustainably — especially without funding.

Writing code is one thing.
Supporting it for years, keeping up with new IRIS versions, building CI pipelines, writing documentation, fixing issues, reviewing PRs — all of this demands both time and motivation, and the biggest motivator is often financial support.

This is not a new challenge.
The global open-source world has faced this for decades and has developed various models to support OSS ecosystems.

I believe it’s time for the InterSystems community to start a discussion about adopting a similar model.

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Article Tani Frankel · Jan 14, 2025 6m read

Using embedded Python while building your InterSystems-based solution can add very powerful and deep capabilities to your toolbox.

I'd like to share one sample use-case I encountered - enabling a CDC (Change Data Capture) for a mongoDB Collection - capturing those changes, digesting them through an Interoperability flow, and eventually updating an EMR via a REST API.

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Question Touggourt · Nov 13, 2025

Hi guys,

Is it bad to have too many Business Services in a production and what's the limit, I'm looking to convert our system tasks (around 30 of them) into Business Services and wondering if it's a better option?

Thanks

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Question Touggourt · Nov 11, 2025

Hi guys,

I'm looking to mimic this Post request URL where I'm sending a token :

So I created the below code but I'm getting "HTTP/1.1 405 Method Not Allowed" error 

Url="myurl/confirmed?id="_token
Set Httprequest1=##class(%Net.HttpRequest).%New()
Set Httprequest1.SSLConfiguration="LS2"
Set Httprequest1.Server="myserver.com" 
Set Httprequest1.Timeout=30
Set Httprequest1.Https=1
Set Httprequest1.Port=7711
set Httprequest1.ContentType="application/json"
Do Httprequest1.SetHeader("Accept","application/json")
Do Httprequest1.SetHeader("Accept-Language","en_US")
//D Httprequest1.EntityBody.Write(token)
Set tSc

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Question Jean Millette · Oct 15, 2025

Can someone help me understand what type of user error (?) is going on here please?

One one system, I write out a group of $c() values and get the expected results:

USER>for i=250:1:260 { write i," ", $c(i),! }
250 ú
251 û
252 ü
253 ý
254 þ
255 ÿ
256 Ā
257 ā
258 Ă
259 ă
260 Ą

USER>w $zv
IRIS for Windows (x86-64) 2023.1.4 (Build 580U) Fri Apr 19 2024 11:16:07 EDT
USER>

On another system, I get some unexpected results:

USER>for i=250:1:260 { write i," ",$c(i),!
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Article Alberto Fuentes · Mar 4, 2024 2m read

I would like to share with you a little trick to customize how messages are displayed in the Message Viewer. In particular, how you can display messages as JSON (instead of the default XML representation).

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Messages are objects that are used to communicate interoperability productions components. In my example I have defined a message that later I serialize as JSON to send to an external API. This message is defined as a regular message and also as a %JSON.Adaptor so I can export / import directly to or from JSON.

Class interop.msg.DeviceOrderReq Extends (Ens.Request, %JSON.Adaptor)
{

Parameter
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Article Robert Barbiaux · Nov 12, 2025 8m read

Introduction

In this article, we will explore various approaches to extending and customizing the behavior of InterSystems IRIS (and IRIS Health) built-in interoperability message routers.

Message routers perform one of the core functions of Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) and are among the most frequently used business processes in interoperability productions.

After a brief overview of the built-in message router classes in InterSystems IRIS and IRIS for Health, the article will demonstrate how to enhance their capabilities to achieve specific outcomes—without the need to develop a

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InterSystems Official Bob Kuszewski · Jun 30, 2023

When IRIS 2023.2 reaches general availability, we’ll be making some improvements to how we tag and distribute IRIS & IRIS for Health containers.

IRIS containers have been tagged using the full build number format, for example 2023.1.0.235.1.  Customers have been asking for more stable tags, so they don’t need to change their dockerfiles/Kubernetes files every time a new release is made.  With that in mind, we’re making the following changes to how we tag container images.

Major.Minor Tags:  Containers will be tagged with the year and release, but not the rest of the full build number.   For

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InterSystems Official Dipak Bhujbal · Nov 10, 2025

Overview

This release introduces the FHIR Server 2025.10.0, delivering the latest standards compliance and performance improvements. It also enhances the Health Connect Cloud (HCC)upgrade process for greater reliability and adds new flexibility to Network Connect through prefix list support in VPN configurations.


New Features and Enhancements

Category

Feature / Improvement

Details

FHIR Server

Release of FHIR Server 2025.10.0

Introduces the latest version of InterSystems FHIR Server, featuring improved scalability, enhanced conformance with FHIR R5, and optimizations

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