We are happy to present the bonuses page for the applications submitted to the InterSystems "Full Stack Programming" Contest 2026

See the results below.

Picture a dark room. The only light comes from a wall of displays and a blinking prompt that politely informs you:

“LINK TO M-U5K-3T: HIGH LATENCY – DIRECT CONTROL DISABLED.”

Perfect.

You are supposed to be a Rover Commander in the Musketeer Corps. Somewhere absurdly far away, you have an autonomous unit parked on a hostile exoplanet. It wants you dead, but it’s also covered in minerals that could fund a small civilization.

The ore on M-U5K-3T is everywhere. Unfortunately, everything else on the surface is actively trying to kill you.

So, we don't pilot. We script.

You aren't driving a car; you are

In the previous article, we saw in detail about Connectors, that let user upload their file and get it converted into embeddings and store it to IRIS DB. In this article, we'll explore different retrieval options that IRIS AI Studio offers - Semantic Search, Chat, Recommender and Similarity. 

New Updates  ⛴️ 

• Added installation through Docker. Run `./build.sh` after cloning to get the application & IRIS instance running in your local
• Connect via InterSystems Extension in vsCode - Thanks to @Evgeny Shvarov 
• Added FAQ's in the home page that covers the basic info for new users

Semantic Search

Semantic

Hi, Community!

Want to try using Flask to expose InterSystems IRIS data over HTTP? This short video will get you started:

Building a REST API in Flask with InterSystems IRIS

👨‍💻Try it yourself in this hands-on exercise! (exercise, 30m).

Keywords:  Vibe coding, Windsurf, IRIS, TIE

Why not?   "Vibe coding" is never about the vibe!

Has anyone not been trying "vibe coding" so far?

Even merely 3 years ago, if anyone asked

• "Could I do IRIS implementation for NHS TIE in English or Spanish or just Chinese ?", or
• "Can I just instruct TIE in English to build itself an e2e route, to pick up a PDF report then turn into ORU/MDM message and submit into the PAS ?", or
• "Could we query IRIS database in English only, and build up dashboard or ad hoc report of my own by English instructions?"

you would probably have laughed, tried not to be offended,

With the release of InterSystems IRIS Cloud SQL, we're getting more frequent questions about how to establish secure connections over JDBC and other driver technologies. While we have nice summary and detailed documentation on the driver technologies themselves, our documentation does not go as far to describe individual client tools, such as our personal favourite DBeaver. In this article, we'll describe the steps to create a secure connection from DBeaver to your Cloud SQL deployment.

Keywords:  IRIS, Agents, Agentic AI, Smart Apps

Motive?

Transformer based LLMs appear to be a pretty good "universal logical–symbolic abstractor".  They started to bridge up the previous abyss among human languages and machine languages, which in essence are all logic symbols that could be mapped into the same vector space. 

Objective?

Wondering for 3 years we might be able to just use English (etc human natural languages) to do IRIS implementations as well, one day. 

Possibly tomorrow all machines, software and apps will be "intelligent" enough to interact with users in any human languages to get

Data Collection

This is a step-by-step instruction guide for creating a task to collect data about the InterSystems database and globals therein (as seen in the associated Open Exchange App - find all the associated code there)

UPDATE (Aug 1 2024): Recently I've been asked about the differences between this and the History Monitor functionality. In short, the data collection monitor builds on the history monitor by adding the ability to track growth of individual globals.

Disclaimer: This software is merely for TEST/DEMO purposes.

You’ve seen how tools like Lovable are shaking up web development. People are spinning up entire apps just by talking to an AI, almost like pair‑programming on steroids.

Now imagine bringing that same “vibe coding” experience into healthcare. know, it sounds crazy. Healthcare is complex, full of regulations, and usually gives us a headache just thinking about the interoperability rules.

That’s exactly the space where withLove lives: an AI‑Native, Low‑Code platform built entirely on InterSystems IRIS for Health.

And no, this is not “one more chatbot” that spits out half‑broken code for you to

Introduction

InterSystems IRIS allows you to build REST APIs using ObjectScript classes and the %CSP.REST framework. This enables the development of modern services to expose data for web apps, mobile apps, or system integrations.

In this article, you'll learn how to create a basic REST API in InterSystems IRIS, including:

• A persistent data class
• A REST class with GET and POST methods
• A web application to expose the API

• A full demonstration using Docker

I need to reproduce a table (in fact a view, but let's start with a simple table 😊) in IRIS as the currently used in Oracle.

I need to expose/project one column to JDBC as CLOB, in my class I have the corresponding property defined as:

Property GlobStream As %Stream.GlobalCharacter;

In JDBC this column is projected as LONGVARCHAR, this is compliant with the documentation but I need to project it as CLOB.

In addition, I'm no expert in JDBC but wit seems that LONGVARCHAR has a Maximum Length 32,700 characters in JDBC, not quite enough for an arbitrary stream.

Is it possible to project a %Stream to

using  intersystemsdc/iris-ml-community:latest I failed with

Error: Invalid Community Edition license, may have exceeded core limit.
Shutting down the system : $zu(56,2)= 0Starting IRIS

What is the actual valid version with ML ??

I have a persistent class (GetOrgUpdatesResponse) that has a property which is a list of another persistent class (Organization).

What would be the best way to cascade deletes so that on deletion of a parent row each object in the list property is then also deleted? 

I have included a sample of my classes here for clarity

Class Integration.ISIS.BO.SyncOrg.Custom.GetOrgUpdatesResponse Extends (%Persistent, Ens.Response)
{

Property Organizations As list Of Organization;// Cascade DeletionProperty NextUpdateBatchID As%String;Property ResultStatus As%String;
}

Where Organization is

Hi developers!

Observing the avalanche of AI-driven and vibe-coding developer tools that have been appearing lately almost every month with more and more exciting dev features, I was puzzled whether it is possible to leverage it with InterSystems IRIS. At least to build a frontend. And the answer - yes! At least with the approach I followed.

Here is my recipe to prompt the UI vs InterSystems IRIS Backend:

1. Have the REST API on the IRIS side, which reflects some Open API (swagger) spec.
2. Generate the UI with any vibe-coding tool (e.g., Lovable) and point the UI to the REST API endpoint.
3. Profit!

Here is the result of my own exercise - a 100% prompted UI vs IRIS REST API that allows to list, create, update delete entries of a persistent class (Open Exchange,frontend source, video):

What is the recipe in detail?

Hi developers. Just want to share with you a finding that might save you a few important minutes of your developer life with InterSystems IRIS.

But!

It should work; you deployed the REST API correctly, and everything is just in place.

What can go wrong?

Introduction

The standard %Net.HttpRequest library in InterSystems IRIS is powerful and comprehensive, but it can be verbose for simple operations. Writing an HTTP request often requires several lines of code to instantiate the class, configure the server, the port, HTTPS, add headers, and finally send the request.

When testing in the terminal, this configuration quickly becomes too heavy, and usually ends up with the creation of temporary methods...

FastHTTP was designed to address this need. This utility class provides a fluent and concise interface to perform HTTP calls in a single line, while automatically handling the underlying complexity (SSL/TLS, URL parsing, JSON encoding, headers, etc.).

Have you ever needed to change an IP or port before deploying an interface to production? Needed to remove items from an export? What about modifying the value(s) in a lookup table before deploying? Have you wanted to disable an interface before deploying? What about adding a comment, category, or alert setting to an interface before deploying to production?

If you’ve ever needed to make any changes to an interface or lookup table before deploying to production, then Export Editor is for you!

Export Editoris a Python/WSGI web application that provides a method for editing exports before

Hi Developers,

We are happy to announce the first InterSystems online programming contest of the year:

🏆 InterSystems Full Stack Contest 🏆

Duration: February 2 - March 1, 2026

Prize pool: $12,000