Official announcements about events and product releases, alerts and statements from InterSystems Corporation authorities.
InterSystems has corrected a defect that can cause FHIR searches to return incomplete results. The defect manifests because a FHIR update interaction deletes an incorrect resource from the search index. Although the data still exists in the repository, subsequent searches may return incomplete results due to the missing entry in that index.
Dear HealthShare Customer:
This post is part of the HealthShare HS2020-06 Alert communications process. The same information is also distributed:
There are 2 Health Insight alerts in the HealthShare HS2020-06 Alert communication. The Alert Summary is in the table below, and the detail is contained in the attached document: HS2020-06-Communication
Preview 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. Please help us make it great by trying it and sending us feedback!
SAM can display information from InterSystems-based instance starting with version 2019.4
SAM is only available in container format. You will need the SAM Manager container plus a small set of additional open-source components (Prometheus and Grafana) that are added automatically by the composition file.
SAM components and the SAM Manager Community Edition are available from
If you are traveling or prefer a voice-based Q&A description on what SAM is, here is a podcast we have prepared for you:
Preview releases are now available for InterSystems IRIS Advanced Analytics, and InterSystems IRIS for Health Advanced Analytics! The Advanced Analytics add-on for InterSystems IRIS introduces IntegratedML as a key new feature.
The build number for these releases is: 2020.3.0AA.331.0
Full product installation kits, container images, 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:
Dear HealthShare Customer:
This post is part of the HealthShare HS2020-05 Alert communications process. The same information is also distributed:
There are 3 alerts in the HealthShare HS2020-05 Alert communication, including the previously posted "Alert: Possible Data Integrity Issues with Online Backup of Large Databases" The Alert Summary is in the table below, and the detail is contained in the attached document: HS2020-05-Communication
InterSystems has corrected two defects that affect online backup of very large databases. Backups taken via external methods, such as snapshots or direct file copies, are not affected. These defects exist in all released versions of all InterSystems products.
The first defect only affects databases with more than 231 blocks. It results in a degraded database after restoring from an online backup. For example, databases that have a block size of 8 KB (the default) are only affected if they are larger than 16 TB. The correction for this defect is identified as RJF437.
Preview releases are now available for the 2020.2 version of InterSystems IRIS, IRIS for Health, and IRIS Studio!
The build number for these releases is 2020.2.0.196.0.
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:
This message contains three recent HealthShare Advisories, which are available below.
These advisories are also on the InterSystems Product Alerts and Advisories page
HealthShare 2020.1 is now Generally Available!
The 2020.1 release has many exciting features including:
I’m excited to announce that InterSystems will be joining the open source community for InterSystems ObjectScript extension to Visual Studio Code. Early this year I posted that we were on a journey to redefine the future of our IDE strategy, and what came out of that is Visual Studio Code is the IDE that can support that future. It’s fast, stable, feature-rich, and built on a modern technology architecture that affords us the ability to offer you far more functionality around your ObjectScript activities than ever before, particularly in the area of DevOps, continuous development, and
Dear HealthShare Customer:
This post is part of the HealthShare HS2020-04 Alert communications process. The same information is also distributed:
There are 3 alerts in the HealthShare HS2020-04 Alert communication, including the previously posted "Alert: Possible Data Integrity Issues after Adding Mirrored Database" The Alert Summary is in the table below, and the detail is contained in the attached document: HS2020-04-Communication
GA releases are now published for the 2020.1 version of InterSystems IRIS, IRIS for Health, and IRIS Studio!
A full set of kits and 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 2020.1.0.215.0.
InterSystems IRIS Data Platform 2020.1 makes it even easier to develop and deploy real-time, machine learning-enabled applications that bridge data and application silos. It has many new capabilities including:
InterSystems has corrected a defect that can result in data integrity issues on systems using mirroring.
This defect affects:
This defect is more likely to be encountered in IRIS and IRIS for Health 2019.4. It is highly unlikely to have occurred on deployed systems running any other version.
The issue can only occur in a situation that meets all of the following conditions:
A releases are now published for the 2020.1 version of HealthShare Health Connect!
Kits and Container images are available via the WRC's WRC Software Distribution site.
The build number for these releases is 2020.1.0.215.0.
HealthShare Health Connect 2020.1 has many new capabilities including:
Starting in March 2020, Microsoft plans to release a series of security updates that will cause Windows Active Directory (AD) servers to reject unencrypted simple binds. For more details on the changes to Active Directory, see Microsoft’s Security Advisory ADV190023.
Dear HealthShare Customer:
This post is part of the HealthShare HS2020-03 Alert communications process. The same information is also distributed:
There are 7 alerts in the HealthShare HS2020-03 Alert communication, including the previously posted "March 25, 2020 Alert: Possible Data Integrity Issues after Compaction or Defragmentation." The summary is in the table below, and the detail is contained in the attached document: HealthShare HS2020-03.
InterSystems has corrected two defects that, in rare circumstances, can result in data integrity corruption after running global compaction, database compaction, or database defragmentation. InterSystems recommends avoiding these utilities until after applying the corrections listed below.
This message contains three recent HealthShare Advisories, which are available below.
These advisories are also on the InterSystems Product Alerts and Advisories page
The 2019.4 versions of InterSystems IRIS, InterSystems IRIS for Health, and InterSystems IRIS Studio are now Generally Available!
These releases are available from the WRC Software Distribution site, with build number 2019.4.0.383.0.
InterSystems IRIS Data Platform 2019.4 has many new capabilities including:
In light of the COVID-19 situation worldwide, InterSystems is working to ensure continuous support for our customers, promote the health and well-being of our employees, and protect the communities where we live and work. Please view our statement and frequently asked questions.
In addition, we have also established a special email address, COVID-19@InterSystems.com, should you have any questions or concerns.
As we have for 41 years, we stand by our commitment to customers and are prepared to support you during this challenging time.
Sincerely,
John Paladino
Vice President, Client Services
This message contains five recent HealthShare Advisories, which are available below.
These advisories are also on the InterSystems Product Alerts and Advisories page
Last week at the InterSystems BeNeLux Symposium, we announced the publication of the InterSystems iKnow Natural Language Processing technology to Open Source. This enables developers and researchers to take advantage of this unique technology at any level of their application stack, workflow or experiment.
Preview releases are now available for the 2020.1 version of InterSystems IRIS and IRIS for Health!
Kits and Container images are available via the WRC's preview download site.
The build number for these releases is 2020.1.0.199.0. (Note: first release was build 197, updated to 199 on 2/12/20)
InterSystems IRIS Data Platform 2020.1 has many new capabilities including:
Preview releases are now available for the 2020.1 version of HealthShare Health Connect!
Kits, Container images, and evaluation keys are available via the WRC's preview download site.
The build number for these releases is 2020.1.0.199.0. (Note: first release was build 197, updated to 199 on 2/12/20)
HealthShare Health Connect 2020.1 has many new capabilities including:
*** Update 2/11/20 2:15pm ***
*** 2017.2.1 version is NOT affected ***
InterSystems has corrected a defect that can cause the CSP Gateway to forward a response to the wrong web client. This defect is not present in the Web Gateway.
The CSP Gateway is distributed as a component of a full instance installation and also as a standalone installer. Both distributions are affected by the defect. The CSP Gateway installed with the private Apache web server for the Management Portal is also vulnerable. The affected versions of the CSP Gateway are associated with Caché or Ensemble:
InterSystems has corrected a defect that can result in skipping a transaction rollback. This can only occur after activation or addition of a mirrored database on a primary mirror member.
This problem exists for:
The conditions necessary for this defect to be triggered are quite specific. All of the following must apply:
Updated 1/30/2020
*** The affected product versions have changed ***
*** The affected versions are Caché and Ensemble beginning with 2016.2.0. ***
*** Caché and Ensemble 2016.1.0 is not at risk for this defect ***
InterSystems has corrected a defect that can cause database degradation in extremely rare circumstances. Associated problems may include, but are not limited to, incorrect or missing application data and system hangs.
This defect affects:
Beginning with InterSystems IRIS 2020.1, the minimum required version for AIX is AIX 7.1 TL4.
The InterSystems IRIS installer will detect if the required IBM XL C filesets are installed before continuing
with the installation.
InterSystems has corrected a defect that can cause shadowing to fail with an access violation. In rare cases, the defect can cause memory corruption, leading to unpredictable behavior.
Note: The defect does not affect mirroring.
This defect affects:
InterSystems has corrected several critical defects that can result in data integrity issues. These defects were identified and corrected within a short time, so InterSystems has simplified the upgrade process by consolidating them into a single package. The effects of encountering these defects may not always be visible. These defects affect InterSystems IRIS, IRIS for Health, Health Connect, Caché, Ensemble, and HealthShare products. All of these defects relate to the application of journal data.