#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.

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Article Laurel James (GJS) · 3 hr ago 2m read

Is your source control treating your InterSystems IRIS environment like a simple collection of files? Most source control tools lack the native intelligence to handle InterSystems IRIS, which is why your code is treated as such. 

Deltanji is different. It understands how code and other artifacts are stored within IRIS and can manage them directly. This eliminates the friction that other tools introduce to the process. 

Join us for an InterSystems-hosted webinar to see how Deltanji provides an enterprise-grade source control solution that is tightly integrated with your IRIS environment.

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Question Scott Roth · 2 hr ago

We are working on Disk Consolidation and looking at Class/Globals that are rather large and not being cleaned up by the nightly Purge process. We have implemented DeleteHelper - A Class to Help with Deleting Referenced Persistent Classes | IDC on any Custom Data Classes, and Business Processes (BPL).

We have a bunch of Data Classes, BPL's, and Operations that connect to external MS SQL Server using JDBC to query or write data to using Stored Procedures and Queries. All that Query external tables are using EnsLib.SQL.Snapshot, and this is being written to ^Ens.AppData which is not cleaned up.

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Question Ikh Nam · 5 hr ago

Hi all,
I'm trying to learn Intersystems Iris. And I have a question.
How can I use left arrow key with if function. Also if it is possible, teach me that how can I make backspace to edit data?
P.S Sorry for bad English.
new var,key,curPos
w $char(27)_"[2J"_$char(27)_"[H"
var="12345abcde"
curPos=$length(var)+1
w $char(27)_"[3;1H"_"First var= "_var
for {
read *key
#; Left Arrow Key
if key="?" {
}
#; Right Arrow Key
elseif key="?" {
}
#; Backspace
elseif key=8 {
}
elseif key=9 {
quit
}
}
!,"Last var= ",var
Kind Regards,
Ikh

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Article Jorge Jaramillo Herrera · Mar 30 7m read

A Continuous Training (CT) pipeline formalises a Machine Learning (ML) model developed through data science experimentation, using the data available at a given point in time. It prepares the model for deployment while enabling autonomous updates as new data becomes available, along with robust performance monitoring, logging, and model registry capabilities for auditing purposes.

InterSystems IRIS already provides nearly all the components required to support such a pipeline. However, one key element is missing: a standardised tool for model registry.

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Question Scott Roth · 20 hr ago

I am trying to built a Task that kicks off a Workflow to pull data into HSPD, and when I try to test the Task

ClassMethod TestTask()
{set tTask = ##class(OSU.Workday.TerminationsTask).%New()set tTask.DaysBack = 1 $$$ThrowOnError(tTask.OnTask())}

I keep getting TestTask+3^OSU.Workday.TerminationsTask.1 *%Exception.StatusException ERROR <Ens>ErrConfigDisabled: Configuration item 'OSU.DataSource.Workday.TermService' is disabled

But within the Namespace the OSU.DataSource.Workday.TermService shows enabled.

Here is my Task that I am using...

Class OSU.Workday.TerminationsTask Extends %SYS.
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Announcement Larry Finlayson · 19 hr ago

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  • This 5-day course teaches system and database administrators how to manage InterSystems® Data Platform technology which powers all of our products. 
  • Learn to install, configure and secure the data platform, configure for high availability and disaster recovery, and monitor the system. 
  • Students also learn troubleshooting techniques.

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Article Developer Community Admin · 21 hr ago 8m read

For software engineers and data architects evaluating data platforms for risk and compliance consolidation in financial services.

Overview

Financial institutions typically run separate applications for risk management and regulatory compliance, creating fragmented data landscapes that are difficult to query and expensive to maintain. InterSystems IRIS is a distributed HTAP data platform that allows organizations to consolidate these systems onto a single, unified data layer.

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Article Jinyao · Apr 2 2m read

Motivation


Why do we need this?

  1. Lack of Compiled Context: AI tools only see source code; they don't know what the final compiled routine looks like.

  2. Macro Hallucination: Because AI doesn't see our #include files or system macros, it often makes them up, wasting time during debugging.

  3. The Documentation Gap: Deep logic optimization often requires understanding internal macros that aren't fully covered in public documentation.

  4. Manual Overhead: Currently, the only way to fix this is to manually use the IRIS VS Code extension to find the "truth" in the routine.

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Article Benjamin De Boe · Apr 2 2m read

What’s New in InterSystems IRIS and IRIS for Health 2026.1

InterSystems IRIS 2026.1 is here, and it’s packed with powerful enhancements designed to help organizations scale their data management like never before. Whether you’re dealing with the operational aspects of managing massive datasets or looking to optimize storage costs, this release brings a host of features to simplify life with your data and meet the growing challenges of very large datasets.

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Article Ariel Glikman · Apr 1 6m read

This article is intended as a beginner level article for people that want to learn how to use OAuth2 in their web applications natively.

There is an accompanying video/demo that may be helpful here: 

and you can reproduce this locally with the Open Exchange application attached.

OAuth2 as a native authentication type for web applications

OAuth (Open Authorization) 2.0 is a standard way to let one application call another application’s API without sharing a username and password.

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Article Fan Ji · Mar 26 1m read

Introduction

FHIR (Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources) is the modern standard for storing and exchanging clinical data. But once your data is in a FHIR server, how do you actually explore it? FHIR data is stored as JSON — powerful, but not practical to read directly. I wanted a tool where you could click on a patient, see their conditions, medications, lab results, and more — in a clean, readable format. So I built the FHIR Patient Viewer.

How It Works

The app runs entirely in Docker and connects directly to an InterSystems IRIS for Health FHIR server.

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Article Lorenzo Scalese · Mar 23 9m read

Introduction — The Problem with AI Streaming in ObjectScript

Today, I would like to introduce a problem I encountered and the solution I found when integrating AI APIs into an ObjectScript application. My initial tests were successful, yet somewhat frustrating.

The HTTP call worked; the request was properly sent to my LLM APIs. But then, silence... a long wait. Eventually, the entire response arrived as a single block.

Technically, it worked, but the user experience was disappointing compared to a ChatGPT session.

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Article Guillaume Rongier · Mar 13 6m read

ObjectScript Search icon

If you have ever dug through a large IRIS namespace looking for where a particular string, method call, or pattern was used, you know the pain: there was no built-in way to do a grep-style search across your server-side ObjectScript code from VS Code — at least not without jumping through some hoops.

That is what ObjectScript Search fixes.

Try it today with a simple install from the VS Code Marketplace. If you don't like it, uninstalling is just as easy. But I think you will like it — it is a huge quality-of-life improvement for anyone doing ObjectScript development in VS Code.


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Article Vachan C Rannore · Mar 26 2m read

Working with files often starts off simple. open the file, read, and process. That approach works perfectly well, until the file happens to be an Excel file.

A Common Assumption

At first, an Excel file (.xlsx) looks like just another data file, rows, columns and values. nothing unusual. So it's natural to assume it can be read the same way as a .txt ot .csv file. But that's where things start to break.

Why Excel files behave differently

The key difference is how the data is stored:

-> .txt / .csv - plain text, line-by-line.

-> .

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Announcement Anastasia Dyubaylo · Mar 20

Hi Community,

Preparing for InterSystems Certification examsrequires more than reading documentation. It calls for focused practice aligned with real exam objectives.If you are planning to validate your expertise in HL7, SQL, System Administration, or Development, structured preparation can make a significant difference.

🧑‍🏫 Exam preparation platform

The platform offers a large pool of practice questions mapped to certification domains, along with detailed answer explanations that point back to relevant documentation.

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Article Eduard Lebedyuk · Mar 27 2m read

If you have long-running messages here's a simple code to catch them. You can also use Queue Wait Alert to get the same results, although this code will catch even a single active message with an empty queue. It also scans all namespaces with no production modification, so it can be used for debugging.

Include Ensemble

Class User.LongMessagesTask Extends %SYS.Task.
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Discussion Juan Mota Sanchez · Mar 26

My team is trying to decide on the best Git strategy for a group of related but separate projects/environments.

One side prefers one repo per project/environment/namespace for cleaner separation. The other side prefers one repo with multiple project folders so shared code and releases are easier to manage in one place.

The challenge is that these projects are separate enough that boundaries matter but related enough that some utilities and common logic may need to be reused. We also want the setup to be easy for developers to understand and not become a deployment nightmare later.

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Article Eduard Lebedyuk · Mar 24 4m read

Despite the fact that LOCK (docs) is a foundational part of InterSystems IRIS, responsible for concurrency, there is not a lot of discussion on the Developer Community about it. Which is understandable, considering it's stable and fairly low-level command. In this article, I will show a simple example of how to use locks with interoperability.

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Article Tani Frankel · Mar 26 1m read

v2026.1 was just released as GA, and one of the features I'm looking forward to using is the DTL Explainer feature.

This allows you to take a Data Transformation, and with a click of a button get a human-readable description of the transformation (which you can also use as the basis for the DTL Description).

For complex DTLs, especially ones you didn't write yourself, or you did but a long time ago, this will allow you to get a clear quick understanding of what it's doing.

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Announcement KC Lu · Mar 16

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.

What Changed

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.

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InterSystems Official Daniel Palevski · Mar 25

The 2023.1.7 maintenance releases of InterSystems IRIS® data platform,InterSystems IRIS® for HealthTM, and HealthShare® Health Connect are now Generally Available (GA). 

Please share your feedback through the Ideas Portal using the category Post-Release Feedback so we can build a better product together.

Documentation

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

Early Access Programs (EAPs)

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

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InterSystems Official Daniel Palevski · Mar 25

The 2026.1 release of InterSystems IRIS® data platform, InterSystems IRIS® for HealthTM, and HealthShare® Health Connect is now Generally Available (GA). This is an Extended Maintenance (EM) release.

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InterSystems Official Aya Heshmat · Mar 25

The Interoperability user interface project has continued from 2025.1 and has incorporated many of the items that you – our customers and partners – have suggested and observed.  We are continuing to invest in feedback and updating this important user experience.  In the latest release, 2026.1 for IRIS, IRIS for Health, Health Connect and Health Connect Cloud, the BPL Editor and Message Viewer/Visual Trace applications are now available for opt-in!
NOTE:

  • Existing users can switch between the modernized and standard experiences.
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