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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.
I have several Business Operations that share similar behavior, like building HTTP headers or parsing a specific response format. In C# I would extract this into a service class or a base class. What is the recommended way to do this in IRIS? Should I use a utility class, a common superclass, or is there another pattern the community prefers?
I have a Business Process that needs to call an external API that may take several seconds to respond. I'm worried that keeping the BP blocked waiting for the response could affect the overall Production throughput. Is there a recommended pattern for handling async calls inside a BPL or custom BP class to avoid this kind of bottleneck?
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I'm approaching the need to send notifications through a Microsoft Exchange or Gmail servers. however my last foray into this, I was blocked due to an issue inside my SSL certificate is what I thought after the attempt.
So my attention will be on trying to match the cryptography in the SSL certificate I produce compared to the mail server I'm trying to use.
Has anyone else had an issue with this approach? My other option is Amazon SNS potentially. I do have a functional MS Teams channel for alerts, and can make different notification channels as well.
Any help or insights are appreciated.
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A text-to-sql demo on mqtt data analytics with RAG.
🗣Presenter: @Jeff Liu, Sales Engineer, InterSystems
In our previous article, we explored the basics of unit testing in IRIS and the ways to apply it to a REST API. We even figured out how to test logic before finalizing network configurations and authentication, allowing us to focus solely on testing the API contents. Today, we will build upon that foundation and elevate our unit testing strategy by using another tool: %Populate .
At first glance, the %Populate class appears to be very simple. You can create a class that extends both %Persistent and %Populate and inherit a Populate method designed to generate randomized records.
In my previous article, I introduced the FHIR Data Explorer, a proof-of-concept application that connects InterSystems IRIS, Python, and Ollama to enable semantic search and visualization over healthcare data in FHIR format, a project currently participating in the InterSystems External Language Contest.
In this follow-up, we’ll see how I integrated Ollama for generating patient history summaries directly from structured FHIR data stored in IRIS, using lightweight local language models (LLMs) such as Llama 3.2:1B or Gemma 2:2B.
The goal was to build a completely local AI pipeline that can extract, format, and narrate patient histories while keeping data private and under full control.
All patient data used in this demo comes from FHIR bundles, which were parsed and loaded into IRIS via the IRIStool module. This approach makes it straightforward to query, transform, and vectorize healthcare data using familiar pandas operations in Python. If you’re curious about how I built this integration, check out my previous article Building a FHIR Vector Repository with InterSystems IRIS and Python through the IRIStool module.
Both IRIStool and FHIR Data Explorer are available on the InterSystems Open Exchange — and part of my contest submissions. If you find them useful, please consider voting for them!
Common Table Expressions (CTEs) provide a structured framework for defining reusable intermediate result sets within SQL statements. InterSystems IRIS implements CTEs via the WITH clause, enabling clearer query composition and modular analytical processing while remaining fully integrated with the IRIS cost-based optimizer.
This article explores the semantics of CTEs in InterSystems IRIS, explains their interaction with query optimization, discusses appropriate deployment scenarios, and presents executable examples illustrating practical patterns for production environments.
What tools or techniques do you use to debug a Production during development? I know the Management Portal shows the message queue and event log, but I'm wondering if there are better ways to trace a message through the full BS > BP > BO flow without relying only on logs.
Hello everyone, I am working with the VSCode extension by connecting to clients' IRIS servers remotely with my personal user (pdileo). However, one of the development environments was recently updated and my user was created for the second time with a different password.
I noticed that the VSCode extension no longer allows me to log in because the password has been changed, without asking me for a new one, only showing the 401 AxiosError.
Vector search is a retrieval method that converts text, images, audio, and other data into numeric vectors using an AI model, and then searches for items that are semantically close. It enables “semantic similarity search” from free text, which is difficult with keyword search alone.
However, in real use, I encountered cases where results that are “close in meaning” but logically the opposite appeared near the top of the search results.
This is a serious issue in situations where affirmation vs. negation matters. If the system returns the wrong answer, the impact can be significant, so we cannot ignore this problem.
This article does not propose a new algorithm. I wrote it to share a practical way I found useful when semantic search fails due to negation.
There seems to be a generous use of ClassMethods in ObjectScript code generally. I hope my own experiences aren't representative, but I bet they are. Forgive me for giving away the ending of this article, but in short: don't use them. Unless you can make a pretty convincing case that you have to, just never use them.1
What is a ClassMethod? In an ObjectScript class, you can define methods in two different ways: in a Method, you must instantiate an instance of the class to call the method, and in a ClassMethod, you can call the method without instantiating the class. Of course, in a ClassMethod, you don't have access to any properties of the object (because there's no object), but you can access globals (they are global, after all) and Parameters (which are class constants).
TL;DR: This article demonstrates how to run GraphRAG-style hybrid retrieval—combining vector similarity, graph traversal, and full-text search—entirely within InterSystems IRIS using the
iris-vector-graphpackage. We use a fraud detection scenario to show how graph patterns reveal what vector search alone would miss.
Every year, businesses and consumers lose billions to fraud. In 2024 alone, consumers reported $12.5 billion lost—a 25% increase year over year. What makes modern fraud so difficult to detect is that fraudsters rarely work alone.
Welcome back to a series of introductory articles on AI Hub, the new product feature currently in an early access program! (links: EAP Site for download, documentation)
In the last article, we covered how to create agents and agent tools directly in ObjectScript using the new %AI classes. However, sometimes, instead of creating a new agent, you just want to add some custom tools to an existing agent so you can ask your local claude code, codex, copilot or other agent of choice to query your data directly. This is where MCP Servers might come in.
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Interoperability metrics were enabled for a production using ##class(Ens.Util.Statistics).EnableSAMForNamespace(). However, after running DisableSAMForNamespace() and DisableStatsForProduction(), the metrics continue to appear in the endpoint output.
Is there a way to completely stop these interoperability metrics from displaying in the API metrics stream? Is there an additional step or cache clear required?
Hi community.
How do i count distinct values over cumulative date dimension?
I got calculated measure function defined in cube: COUNT([dimension].[H1].[dimension].Members, EXCLUDEEMPTY)
[dimension].[H1].[dimension] = non-unique numerical fields of ids
Then i got AGGREGATION function defined in Analyzer (that stored in ^DeepSee.CalcMbrs):
AGGREGATE(%TIMERANGE(TimeDimension.hierarchy.level,TimeDimension.hierarchy.level.CurrentMember),Measures.Measure)This return an error:
ERROR #5001: No member provider object found for member function: MEMBER(5)All syntax is correct. I checked it twice.
Join our next in-person Developer Meetup in Boston to explore AI for Developers and Startups.
This event is hosted at CIC Venture Cafe.
Talk 1:"Developing Full-Stack AI Applications from the Ground Up" by Robert Costa, Senior Systems Developer, InterSystems
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Food, beverages, and networking opportunities will be provided as always.
We have a task that runs objectscript code to load data into a linked external table. After upgrading from 2024.1 to 2025.1, the load is throwing an error, with error code -400, and no error message. The data DOES get loaded into the external table in its entirety, so with no meaningful error message, its hard to determine what the issue is. The result is the same with and without the USING clause, so don't let that confuse you.
With Embedded Python and the Native API, it is becoming increasingly natural to write part of IRIS application logic in Python. But one question quickly comes up: how can you manipulate IRIS persistent objects from Python without losing the connection to the native object model, class dictionary, indexes, storage, and SQL projections?
iris-persistence explores that question. The project provides a Python object persistence layer for InterSystems IRIS, inspired by %Persistent
Hello everyone,
As part of our recent initiative to modernize our observability stack, we have successfully transitioned our InterSystems IRIS logging framework to a structured JSON format. Now we need to dynamically enrich these logs with business-critical metadata specifically, theTenant ID.
We have this configmap to enable Json logs:
apiVersion: v1
kind: ConfigMap
metadata:
name: iris-cpf-merge
namespace: {{ .Release.Namespace }}
data:
merge.cpf: |
[Logging]
ChildProcessLaunchCommand=/usr/irissys/bin/irislogd -f /tmp/messages.json
Format=JSON
Enabled=1I’m exploring deployment options for InterSystems IRIS in cloud environments such as AWS or Azure.
What deployment architectures, scaling strategies, or infrastructure best practices are commonly recommended by the community? I’d also appreciate guidance regarding high availability, backups, and monitoring in cloud-based deployments.
IRIS is installed and running in an Ubuntu VM.
Visual Studio Code is being used in the host Windows OS and is connected to the IRIS server.
When attempting to execute commands with sudo from the InterSystems Lite Terminal in VSCode using $ZF(-100), error code 127 is returned.
I tried configuring Ubuntu to avoid password prompts by adding the following line to /etc/sudoers.tmp:
However, the above configuration did not work.
Is there a way to execute sudo commands from InterSystems IRIS Production ObjectScript code in Ubuntu?
I am trying to connect to hive database and IRIS Intersystems Databases using jaydebeapi in python. I am able to connect to one database at a time. While trying to connect to other database, I am getting the below error
"Class org.apache.hive.jdbc.HiveDriver is not found"
or
"Class com.intersystems.jdbc.IRISDriver is not found"
lin1 -
hive_con = jd.connect(java_driver_class, jdbc_conn_url, [hive_user, hive_pass],jarfile)
lin2 -
iris_con = jd.connect(iris_driver_class, iris_conn_url, [iris_user, iris_pass],jarfile)
The rise of distributed systems and cloud-native architectures within large institutions has redefined hosting for InterSystems IRIS interoperability applications (productions). In modern environments, the standard layout involves at least two production instances operating on distinct nodes under a load-balancing configuration to handle requests.
The benefits are clear: you can now scale dynamically based on request volume, increasing the number of active productions during peak demand and going down when traffic subsides.
Is there any way to read messages on the portal that are in STREAM or STATUS format?
Hello everyone.
After trying to run Python methods in the intersystemsdc/irishealth-community Docker container, which no longer allows any Python methods to be executed, I decided to abandon this version and start working with containers.intersystems.com/intersystems/iris-community.
In this environment, the Python methods work, which was a significant improvement.
I'm trying to import my libraries with pip install -r requirements.txt
Hi everyone! 👋
I’m excited to share the project I’ve submitted to the current InterSystems .Net, Java, Python, and JavaScript Contest — it’s called IRIStool and Data Manager, and you can find it on the InterSystems Open Exchange and on my GitHub page.
Since we reached two important milestones for Go developers working with InterSystems IRIS:
database/sql interface for Go.Now it’s time to see everything working together.
To demonstrate how easily Go developers can adopt InterSystems IRIS, I took an existing production-grade open-source project — the RealWorld Example App — which showcases a full-stack Medium.com-style clone implemented with Go Fiber, GORM, and SQLite.
With just a few configuration tweaks, I swapped out SQLite for gorm-iris, keeping everything else unchanged. The result?
A fully functional Go + Fiber application powered by InterSystems IRIS — no code rewrites, no ORM gymnastics, just a different database backend.
You can find the complete working demo here: github.com/caretdev/golang-fiber-iris-realworld-example-app
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