#InterSystems Official

The GA release is now published for the 2.3 version of the InterSystems API Manager (IAM).

The container for IAM, including all relevant artifacts to upgrade from earlier versions of IAM can be downloaded from the WRC Software Distribution site in the Components area.

The build number for this release is IAM 2.3.3.2-1. 

This release is based on Kong Enterprise version 2.3.3.2.

InterSystems API Manager 2.3 makes it easier to deploy in a secure manner and for high-availability scenarios  It has many new capabilities including:

• Introduction of hybrid mode
• Broader support for Docker Secrets

I am pleased to announce the availability of InterSystems Container Registry. This provides a new distribution channel for customers to access container-based releases and previews. All Community Edition images are available in a public repository with no login required. All full released images (IRIS, IRIS for Health, Health Connect, System Alerting and Monitoring, InterSystems Cloud Manager) and utility images (such as arbiter, Web Gateway, and PasswordHash) require a login token, generated from your WRC account credentials.

Java Business Host is now retired

With the release of PEX in InterSystems IRIS 2020.1 and InterSystems IRIS for Health 2020.1, customers have a better way to build Java into productions than the Java Business Host. PEX provides a complete set of APIs for building interoperability components and is available in both Java and .NET.

The Java Business Host has been removed from InterSystems IRIS and InterSystems IRIS for Health as of their 2020.4 releases.  Customers using the Java Business Host are encouraged to migrate to PEX.

Advantages of PEX

Preview releases are now available for the 2021.1 version of InterSystems IRIS, IRIS for Health and HealthShare Health Connect.

As this is a preview release, we are eager to learn from your experiences with this new release ahead of its General Availability release next month. Please share your feedback through the Developer Community so we can build a better product together.

GA releases are now available for the 2020.4 version of InterSystems IRIS, InterSystems IRIS for Health and InterSystems IRIS Studio.

InterSystems IRIS Data Platform 2020.4 makes it even easier to develop, deploy and manage augmented applications and business processes that bridge data and application silos. It has many new capabilities including:

Enhancements for application and interface developers, including:

Preview releases are now available for the 2020.4 version of InterSystems IRIS, IRIS for Health and IRIS Studio. As this is a preview release, we are eager to learn from your experiences with this new release ahead of its General Availability next month.

Three new sets of maintenance releases are now available: 

• Caché  2018.1.5, Ensemble 2018.1.5, and HSAP 2018.1.5
• InterSystems IRIS 2019.1.2, IRIS for Health 2019.1.2, and HealthShare Health Connect 2019.1.2
• InterSystems IRIS 2020.1.1, IRIS for Health 2020.1.1, and HealthShare Health Connect 2020.1.1

Installation kits and containers can be downloaded from the WRC Software Distribution site.

Dear HealthShare Customer:

This post is part of the HealthShare HS2021-03 Alert communications process.  The same information is also distributed:

• By Email to HealthShare customers
• On the Product Alerts & Advisories page
• On the WRC Distribution Page InterSystems Documents

March 23, 2021 – Alert: Potential Data Integrity Issue with Mirror Dejournaling

InterSystems has corrected a defect that can cause data inconsistency issues on non-primary mirror members in extremely rare circumstances. This defect affects all released versions of InterSystems products.

InterSystems has identified an issue with product distributions containing Certificate Authority certificates that expire at the end of 2020. This issue does not affect system operation or system security in any way, although it does generate alerts about expiring certificates in the cconsole.log or messages.log files. The messages may be ignored and there are instructions below to eliminate them.

The issue affects the following versions:

February 11, 2021 – Advisory: Incomplete Query Results with ‘ORDER BY <row ID field> DESC’ – HealthShare

InterSystems has corrected a defect that can cause incomplete query results.  This defect affects the platforms underlying HealthShare and HealthShare Health Connect:

• InterSystems IRIS and InterSystems IRIS for Health 2019.1.0, 2019.1.1, and 2020.1.0

See Alert: Incomplete Query Results with ‘ORDER BY <row ID field> DESC’ for further detail

February 11, 2021 – Alert: Incomplete Query Results with ‘ORDER BY <row ID field> DESC’

InterSystems has corrected a defect that can cause incomplete query results. This defect affects:

• InterSystems IRIS and InterSystems IRIS for Health 2019.1.0, 2019.1.1, 2019.2, 2019.3, 2019.4, 2020.1.0, 2020.2, and 2020.3
• HealthShare Health Connect 2019.1.0, 2019.1.1, 2020.1.0
• HealthShare Products 2019.2, 2020.1 and 2020.2

Dear HealthShare Customer:

This post is part of the HealthShare HS2020-09 Alert communications process.  The same information is also distributed:

• By Email
• On the Product Alerts & Advisories page
• On the WRC Distribution Page InterSystems Documents

There are 3 alerts in the HealthShare HS2020-09 Alert communication.  The Alert Summary is in the table below, and the detail is contained in the document: HS2020-09-Communication

This message contains six recent HealthShare Advisories, which are available below.

GA releases are now published for the 2020.3 version of InterSystems IRIS, IRIS for Health, with IntegratedML!

InterSystems has corrected a defect that may cause Windows Telnet processes that are secured using SSL/TLS to hang indefinitely; this may then cause an instance to become unresponsive. This defect is present only on Windows platforms.

This defect affects:

• Caché and Ensemble 2018.1.4
• HealthShare Health Connect (HSAP) 15.032 built on C/E 2018.1.4
• InterSystems IRIS and InterSystems IRIS for Health 2020.3

I've been impressed at the quality of the questions at our live Q&A sessions!  

These sessions were meant as a way for you to ask anything you want (I call this playing "stump the chumps").

They're all recorded and available for review later; here're the links:

• Live Q&A session 1 - 26 Oct 11:40PM EST 
• Live Q&A session 2 - 27 Oct 12:40PM EST 
• Live Q&A session 3 - 27 Oct 11:40PM EST  
• Live Q&A session 4 - 28 Oct 12:40PM EST  
• Live Q&A session 5 - 28 Oct 11:40PM EST 

It's not too late to join the last one live! 

• Live Q&A session 6 - 29 Oct 12:40PM EST 

Caché  2018.1.4 and Ensemble 2018.1.4 maintenance releases are now available.   

Full product installation kits can be downloaded from the WRC Software Distribution site.

This is a maintenance release with many updates across a wide variety of areas.

For information about the corrections in this release, refer to the Release Changes list and the  Release Notes and Upgrade Checklist.  The documentation for Caché and Ensemble includes these as well as the Supported Platforms document, the Class Reference, and a full set of guides, references, tutorials, and articles.

Hello Developer Community!

Once again I'm here to talk about the ObjectScript extension for Visual Studio Code, and this time we are excited to announce the release of version 1.0!

The community has come together in an unprecedented way to deliver this product with InterSystems, and its only fitting that a tool so critical to  developer productivity would be built with community testing, feedback and source code from the very beginning.

What's New

Most of the features in this release have been present since 0.9 and were announced earlier in this post. They have all been enhanced and polished.

Dear HealthShare Customer:

This post is part of the HealthShare HS2020-08 Alert communications process.  The same information is also distributed:

• By Email
• On the Product Alerts & Advisories page
• On the WRC Distribution Page InterSystems Documents

There are 2 alerts in the HealthShare HS2020-08 Alert communication, and outlined in the Alert Summary table below.  The detail is contained in the attached document: HealthShare HS2020-08.

These alerts do not affect HealthShare Health Connect or HSAP customers

This message contains four recent HealthShare Advisories, which are available below.

• Advisory: FHIR Medication asNeededBoolean Not Always Correct
• Advisory: Clinical Viewer and Management Portal Log Out Synchronization Issue
• Advisory: Failure to access linkage engine libraries in Patient Index
• Advisory: Failure to access linkage engine libraries in Provider Directory

These advisories are also on the InterSystems Product Alerts and Advisories page

GA releases are now published for the 2020.3 version of InterSystems IRIS, InterSystems IRIS for Health, and InterSystems IRIS Studio!

A full set of containers for these products is available from the WRC Software Distribution site, including community editions of InterSystems IRIS and InterSystems IRIS for Health. In addition, all containers are also available from the new InterSystems Container Registry. This article explains how to use the registry.

The build number for these releases is 2020.3.0.221.0.

InterSystems has corrected a defect that can cause a build-up of orphaned processes consuming system resources. In extreme cases, this can cause a system to become unresponsive.

This defect affects the following versions:

• Caché and Ensemble 2018.1.4
• InterSystems IRIS and InterSystems IRIS for Health 2019.4, 2020.1, and 2020.2
• HealthShare Health Connect (HSAP) 15.032 built on Ensemble 2018.1.4
• HealthShare Health Connect 2020.1

This message contains two recent HealthShare Advisories, which are available below.

• Advisory: Consent API allows for the creation of consent policies for non-existing MPI IDs
• Advisory: Issue with Consent Processing in the Operational Data Store

These advisories are also on the InterSystems Product Alerts and Advisories page

September 1, 2020 – Advisory: Consent API allows for the creation of consent policies for non-existing MPI IDs

Preview releases are now available for the 2020.3 version of InterSystems IRIS, IRIS for Health, and IRIS Studio!

The build number for these releases is 2020.3.0.200.0.

Container images, components, and evaluation license keys are available via the WRC's preview download site.

Community Edition containers can also be pulled from the Docker store using the following commands:

docker pull store/intersystems/iris-community:2020.3.0.200.0

docker pull store/intersystems/iris-community-arm64:2020.3.0.200.0

docker pull store/intersystems/irishealth-community:2020.3.0.200.0

GA releases are now available for the first version (v1.0) of InterSystems System Alerting and Monitoring (InterSystems SAM for short)  InterSystems SAM v1.0 provides a modern monitoring solution for InterSystems IRIS based products. It allows high-level views of clusters and single-node drilled down metrics-visualization together with alerts notifications.  This first version provides visualization for more than one hundred InterSystems IRIS kernel metrics, and users can extend the default-supplied Grafana template to their liking. V1.0 is meant to be a simple and intuitive baseline. Help us

GA releases are now published for the 2020.2 version of InterSystems IRIS, IRIS for Health, and IRIS Studio!

A full set of containers for these products are available from the WRC Software Distribution site, including community editions of InterSystems IRIS and IRIS for Health.

The build number for these releases is 2020.2.0.211.0.

InterSystems IRIS Data Platform 2020.2  provides an important security update with the following enhancements:

• Support for TLS 1.3
• Support for SHA-3

AWS has officially released their second-generation Arm-based Graviton2 processors and associated Amazon EC2 M6g instance type, which boasts up to 40% better price performance over current generation Intel Xeon based M5 instances. 

A few months ago, InterSystems participated in the M6g preview program, and we ran a few benchmarks with InterSystems IRIS that showed compelling results. This led us to support ARM64 architectures for the first time.

Now you can try InterSystems IRIS and InterSystems IRIS for Health on Graviton2-based Amazon EC2 M6g instances for yourselves through the AWS Marketplace!

This message contains three recent HealthShare Advisories, which are available below.

• Advisory: ODS Not Storing Observations When Terminology Translations Are Used
• Advisory: Composite Record Definition Must Reference Implemented Linkage Definition
• Advisory: Potential for Outdated Terms of Use to be Presented in Personal Community

These advisories are also on the InterSystems Product Alerts and Advisories page

June 30, 2020 – Advisory: ODS Not Storing Observations When Terminology Translations Are Used

InterSystems has corrected a defect that can lead to missing resource data in FHIR search results.

This problem exists for:

• HealthShare Unified Care Record 2020.1.0 b7015

This defect occurs due to an incorrect resource being deleted from the search index. Subsequent FHIR Resource requests against the FHIR Repository may return incomplete results due to that missing index. Any type of FHIR resource data can be lost, and depending on when the defect occurs, the same FHIR request could return different result sets.