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.
This article reflects my recent experiences at trying to connect an IRIS Business Operation to a secure Kafka Server, using SSL tunnels to encrypt the communications and using SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) password hashing with SCRAM-SHA-512.
Most IRIS developers use $LISTBUILD every day — often without even noticing it.
It is not just a convenient function for building lists. It is also the default internal format used to store row data, global values, and many intermediate structures inside the database engine.
Despite this, the actual binary representation of $LISTBUILD values is rarely discussed. Most developers rely on its behavior, but never look at how the data is really stored.
This article focuses strictly on the binary layout of $LISTBUILD values, based on direct inspection via zzdump.
This is the second part of an article pair where I walk you through:
As mentioned the goal is to give you a smooth “first run” experience.
I need a %SYS.Python object that will be accessible from different processes. The goal is to avoid reinitializing the Python object whenever it is called. Ways that I checked and decided that it is NOT what I want:
Next, my ideas (none of them look like a silver bullet):
A microservice is an architectural style that structures an application as a collection of small, autonomous services. Each component is developed around a specific business capability, can be deployed independently, and is typically managed by a miniature, specialized, self-governing team. (Source: https://microservices.io/)
During my work with customers and also following I often met the
explicit or embedded question: What is this "GLOBALS" ?
I'll try to explain the history to unfold the context.
Has anyone done this successfully? Customer wants to receive HL7 data over https using OAUTH 2.0 client credentials. I am assuming a custom Operation will be needed? I tried using CoPilot for assistance but was unsuccessful. I am not great with Object script :(
Hey Developers,
Watch this video to learn about the analytics approach to InterSystems IRIS encryption and how it interacts with in-storage data compression and deduplication compared to storage-level encryption:
READY is right around the corner, and this year the Application Services team from InterSystems will be hosting a IPM Users GroupMeeting during the conference!This will be held Wednesday, April 29th during lunch from 12:30 – 1:30 (lunch will be served at the meeting room).
Introduction
InterSystems IRIS Adaptive Analytics is an optional extension that provides a business-oriented, virtual data model layer between InterSystems IRIS and popular Business Intelligence (BI) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) client tools. Adaptive Analytics is powered by AtScale, the AtScale documentation can be found at this link: https://documentation.intersystems.atscale.com
This article will showcase some AtScale features that can facilitate data analysis:
Aggregates
READY is right around the corner, and this year the Application Services team from InterSystems will be hosting a Embedded Git Users GroupMeeting during the conference!This will be held Thursday, April 30th during breakfast from 7:30 – 8:30 (breakfast will be served at the meeting room starting at 7:00am).
The 2025.1.4 and 2024.1.6 maintenance releases of InterSystems IRIS® data platform, InterSystems IRIS® for HealthTM, and HealthShare® Health Connect are now Generally Available (GA). These releases include the fixes for a number of recently issued alerts and advisories, including the following:
Before finding the best solution for Supply Chain, we need to understand what Supply Chain is. Well, regardless of the language used, the term is known by the name already mentioned. For your information, the translation in Brazilian Portuguese is "Cadeia de Suprimentos" (Supply Chain), sometimes also called "Cadeia Logística" (Logistics Chain), but we will not dwell on the nomenclature, but rather on the meaning.
Hi, every one. Again, it's me!!😀😀
Recently I was trying to organize some learning materials for InterSystems IRIS😆, and realized that the resources are actually quite scattered.🤐
So I put together a list here—grouped by categories—for anyone who:
Also adding some of my own experience on what worked (and what didn’t, may be only not work for me🤫🤐).
If you don’t know where to begin, start here:
Over the past year there have been a few DC articles offering MCP servers designed to connect to IRIS and help the AI features of VS Code and its cousins do a better job. For example:
I use cspa24.so Apache module to connect to IRIS. I have notified that idle Apache processes will always result in connections being kept open to the IRIS server, and thus some amount of IRIS processes being kept alive (and dedicated to those apache processes) because of those connections.
Eg: if I have 50 idle Apache processes, I will have 50 IRIS processes being kept alive in IRIS even if there is no client connection being made at that time.
It's even worse with multiple Apache nodes and a load balancer.