#Terminal

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Posts that relate to discussions on utilizing the Terminal tool.

Question Eduard Lebedyuk · Feb 11

When I build docker containers my build log usually looks like this:

#9 24.94 Using 'iris.cpf' configuration file
#9 25.82
#9 27.55 Starting Control Process
#9 27.55 Global buffer setting requires attention.  Auto-selected 25% of total memory.
#9 27.55 Allocated 4999MB shared memory
#9 27.55 3915MB global buffers, 391MB routine buffers
#9 29.84 This copy of InterSystems IRIS has been licensed for use exclusively by:
#9 29.84 No local key detected, trying license server.
#9 29.84 Copyright (c) 1986-2026 by InterSystems Corporation
#9 29.
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Question Jean Millette · Oct 15, 2025

Can someone help me understand what type of user error (?) is going on here please?

One one system, I write out a group of $c() values and get the expected results:

USER>for i=250:1:260 { write i," ", $c(i),! }
250 ú
251 û
252 ü
253 ý
254 þ
255 ÿ
256 Ā
257 ā
258 Ă
259 ă
260 Ą

USER>w $zv
IRIS for Windows (x86-64) 2023.1.4 (Build 580U) Fri Apr 19 2024 11:16:07 EDT
USER>

On another system, I get some unexpected results:

USER>for i=250:1:260 { write i," ",$c(i),!
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Question Yone Moreno Jiménez · Aug 5, 2025

Hello, how are you?

First of all thanks for your time reading this question.

We are investigating how to validate the indexes of a global. We have read:

https://docs.intersystems.com/irisforhealth20251/csp/docbook/DocBook.UI…

And:

https://docs.intersystems.com/irisforhealth20251/csp/documatic/%25CSP.D…

We want to validate the inxedes of the global titled "Ens.Util.LogD". We have executed on the ObjectScript terminal, on the desired namespace:

ESBSSCC>set tSC = $SYSTEM.OBJ.

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Question Niklas Thilmont · Jul 30, 2021

Hey ISC Community!

For a small automation feature I would like to login to the IRIS shell non-interactively, skipping the whole username and password prompts, providing the credentials through other means. Something in the fashion of "iris session <instance-name> --user myuser --pass mypass" would be great, but the session tool itself doesn't seem to be capable of doing this.

Does anyone know a way to accomplish this? It need not be through "iris session", any way that can be automated would be fine. Disabling authentication for the terminal is not an option, though. 

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Question Giray Ozel · Mar 2, 2018

I was able to run the Cache terminal from the command prompt with the following command, in the namespace that I provided in the brackets:

cterm /console=cn_ap:ENSEMBLE[TEST_1]
But the command suddenly stopped opening the terminal in the correct namespace. It just opens it in the default namespace. I tried it with different namespaces or invalid namespaces, it always opens the terminal in the default namespace now.

I cannot figure out what is causing this behaviour.

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Question Sylvain DUBOIS · Mar 9, 2022

Hello

I am running a script from a CMD command line using : C:\CacheSys\Bin\cterm.exe /console=cn_iptcp:127.0.0.1[23] myscript.SCR %CD%

The script should authorize something (or not) in the following lines of the GO.CMD

But How can i return an information from inside the script to the GO.CMD script ?

Any idea ?

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Question Razvan Prepelita · Sep 8, 2017

Hello everyone, I'm trying to run a cache terminal script from cmd/ batch.
I run it like this C:\MyCache\bin#cterm.exe C:\Users\Me\Desktop\cache_scrip.scr
The command opens a terminal, but nothing happens, no title present, no log file written, no output, it's just stucked.
Here is my script:

case match: off
title MyTitle
; wait for the terminal to initialize and ask for our identification
echo: on
wait for:Username
send: MeUser<CR>
wait for:Password
send: mepass<CR>
logfile: C:\Users\Me\Desktop\cache_script.
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Question Sergi Vaque · Feb 3, 2022

Could be enabled a service as "%service_telnet" from cmd? I need to open a cache terminal from cmd but without this service enabled it is not possible, I mean avoiding the use of manage portal of course.

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Question Lucas Galdino · Jan 31, 2022

Dear experts,
Can you give tips to solve this issue?

When I try start cache is recording this error message in cconsole.log:

01/31/22-14:11:28:143 (4516) 3 Error: <DIRECTORY>SYSTEM+4^%ZSTART running %ZSTART - Logins are disabled

I try acess terminal and management portal, but are disable because that error.
I dont know how can I enable the logins.

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Question Lucas Galdino · Jan 18, 2022

Hi everyone,

Im trying configure the Caché Monitor Manager (^MONMGR) utility for send alert e-mails.
Following the steps I have doubs to configure the options in "Set Server" to send e-mails for hotmail or outlook (smtp-mail.outlook.com).
I dont know how can I configure Mail server SSLConfiguration for hotmail or outlook.
Could you give me help?
Thank you! wink

Mail server? mail.outlook.com (Enter '-' to reset) =>
Mail server port? 587 =>
Mail server SSLConfiguration?
Mail server UseSTARTTLS? 0 =>

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Question Limyandi Vicotrico · Aug 23, 2020

Hi Everyone,

Has anyone tried to write down a function in a routine that list all of possible function inside the routine? I can only think of iterating through the routine line one by one and differentiate between function and function definition. Is there any existing function that can be utilised? I think it should work similar to how

do function^routineName 

works. I could not find the source for how "do" works, but I believe do will look at the list of function in the routine, and if it finds it, it will call the function, but if it does not find it, it will give an error?

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Question David Hockenbroch · Oct 14, 2021

If I open a terminal and type the following commands, sc is an error:

set validator = "sc = ##class(%Library.Numeric).IsValid(""BLAH"")"
set @validator
write sc

At the end, when I write sc I get:

0 L'BLAH9
             DOCXT010,#e^zIsValid+1^%Library.Numeric.1^1e^^^1

However, if I call the following class method using the arguments "%Library.Numeric" and "BLAH", sc is undefined

 ClassMethod testvalidator(class As %String, value As %String) As %Status
{
set validator = "sc = ##class("_class_").IsValid("""_value_""")"
write validator,!
set @validator
write sc,!
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Question Kevin McGinn · Sep 21, 2021

I am writing a report for a client that will create a report of the current process with a format that mimicks the Management Portal process display. I am writing a cterm script file to generate the report.

In the loop that process the results I am writing the columns in a formatted manner that will result in a CSV format very similar in content and order the process page. However, it appears that the write statement is limited in size such that I can not write out all of the elements of the sys.process query. My query result processing that works correctly is of this format:

send: WHILE rset.

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Question Michael Lindner · Sep 2, 2021

New to IRIS. Installed docker container as per instructions. From my system I run:

# docker exec -it iris bash

and then try to start a terminal session, which fails

irisowner@2f54ebfbc52f:~$ irissession IRIS

How do I successfully start a terminal session?

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Question Yatin Desai · Jan 11, 2021

We've our Cache running on Windows 2012 Server, but I've a Macbook Pro. Earlier I was using Miscrosoft Remote Desktop 8, to remote into our Windows server & everything worked.

Since version 8 is discontinued, I installed Microsoft Remote Desktop 10.5, which works for everything except starting Terminal.

I get error 'NTI Connection Error'

(287) Error writing to Pipe
Reason: (998) Invalid Access to Memory Location.

If I do remote desktop from Windows machine (using same credentials), it works.

Earlier I'd kept both version 8 & 10, to work around this, but with recent MacOS update to 11.

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Question Fiona Griffiths · Nov 17, 2020

Hi 

Has anyone found a good terminal emulator replacement for Cache Terminal?  

We want one where the up arrow works to bring back the last command typed (without extraneous characters appearing at the beginning of the line) and be able to run D ^JOURNAL and have it display correctly. 

I tried WebTerminal a couple of years back and but it didn't work properly with the journal.  I've tried RoyalTS and that doesn't do up arrow or the journal correctly even though it's supposed to be emulating a VT400. 

Any suggestions?

thanks

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Question Kevin Furze · Nov 15, 2020

version cache for windows, 2017.2.1 build 801_3 - windows 10

I had this system set up for 3+ years now, and background tasks such as converting emails,  have always worked, suddenly it's stopped working and I've tracked it down to any network references.

reading the emails, I look for any attachment files, and save them to a network drive before processing them within a class method,

I've been testing it by sending exactly the same email repeatedly and checking the saving of the attached file in both the background and in the terminal.

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Question Ruslan K · Oct 1, 2020

Hello!

I have installed windows 10 and cache 2018.1.0.184.0

I run terminal not from cache cube but through localDemon.exe (for report outputting from my programs to excel).

All worked fine but after some time error occured "Cannot load supporting modules"  (in attached file) and localDemon.exe is not launching.

But terminal from cache cube is still launching without problems (but from it reports are not working, localDemon.exe is required)

I thought it is windows defender or antivirus put some  localDemon.exe module to quarantine but quarantine is empty.

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Question Paras Batheja · Aug 17, 2020

Hi Developers 

Is there any way that we can pass the values to the read prompts via cache routine.

For example, we have a couple of reports/routine in our system which accepts some inputs and after taking the inputs it generates some data. Right now it has proper UI and where User enters the value and in routines we have Read statements which accepts those inputs for further processing.

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Question Eduard Lebedyuk · Jul 6, 2018

Let's say I have this simple script  file try.script

write 1
write 0

I can execute it in a terminal (csession) by calling:

csession cache < try.script

And I get the following output:

%SYS>
1
%SYS>
0

However I want to use a try catch block in my script:

try {
write 1/0
catch {}
halt

But as script is executed line by line, it's interpreted like this:

%SYS>
TRY {
      ^
<SYNTAX>
%SYS>

WRITE 1/0
^
<DIVIDE>
%SYS>

CATCH {}
^
<SYNTAX>
%SYS>

I know that I can write it all in 1 line, but I'd rather not do that. Is there a way to feed multiline statement into Cache?

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Question Peter N · Jul 11, 2020

I try to run a small test routine (guessing a random number) in WebTerminal but the result looks broken.
in IRISterminal:

 in WebTerminal:

I think it relates to backspace.
Is there some special setting required?

The code:

a
 q=".......... guess [0..9]: " 
 i=1:1 if ! $c(9),"thank you",! q
 q  
b
 !,i,$c(9),q
 f  v#1 q:(v?.1n) " !no number",$c(8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8)
 " "
 r=$R(10),p=$s(v="":1,v=r:"!",v>r:"<",1:">")
 x=q,$e(x,r+1)="*",$e(x,v+1)=$s(v=r:"!",v>r:"<",1:">") 
 q:p  $c(13),$c(9),p=v=q

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