By default, Analyzer executes queries as components are added. Often, there are times where you may know exactly what you are looking to do, and you do not want Analyzer to execute 5 queries as you drag and drop items onto rows/columns and select your filters. This is where toggling Auto-execute off can help.
Tips & Tricks
As more people join Developer Community, and with increasing efforts to promote code sharing, I'd like to draw fresh attention to this post I wrote a year ago. It spotlights a feature within the class compiler which is both useful and dangerous. When importing code (e.g. from an XML export of classes received from someone), it's worth considering the risks.
Even if that post doesn't seem relevant to you at the moment you may wish to note it for the future. A handy way of doing this is to click the star icon at the end of it.
Last comment 2 March 2017
Amongst the large fonts and chunky icons of Portal's pages, the Menu button in the top left corner is easily overlooked:
When clicked, it often produces the following menu:
When I remember it's there, I find the "View Console Log" option particularly handy.
I wrote "often" above because I've also noticed that the Menu contents change when I'm on a page within the Ensemble section of Portal:
Last comment 14 February 2017
Until recently I didn't pay much attention to Portal's home page:
If it's not showing when you initially launch Portal you can easily jump to it using the button / tab at the top of the left-hand column of options. And later during your session, get there via the Home link that will be visible at the top of every page.
On the Home page the "Recent" section is automatically maintained for you.
User interfaces such as Portal often give us multiple ways of doing a task. Sometimes we stick with habits and don't realize that another way might save us time.
Here's one that I learned by watching someone else using Portal.
Use the Search box to get quickly to a page that may otherwise be several layers deep in the Portal hierarchy. For example, suppose I want to check the status of the ECP networking:
Last comment 14 February 2017
Caché, Change management, Git, Code snippet, Namespace, Deployment, Tools, Callout, Node.js, C++, Tips & Tricks
This is the second part of my long post about package managers in operating systems and language distributions. Now, hopefully, we have managed to convince you that convenient package manager and rich 3rd party code repository is one key factor in establishing of a vibrant and fast growing ecosystem. (Another possible reason for ecosystem success is the consistent language design, but it will be topic for another day.)
Last comment 6 February 2017
I am in the planning stages of making things more uniform in our routines and I would like to know what the easiest way would be to include an .inc at the beginning of each .mac routine. Has anyone written something that would open all routines and place something into the first row while leaving the rest of the routine unchanged? Thanks for any guidance you all may provide.
Last answer 3 February 2017 Last comment 30 January 2017
Points to remember before you start:
- It is not possible in a COS (Caché Object Script) job/process context to have multiple Named Pipes. It is a one Named Pipe per job/process limited line of communication.
- Named Pipes, in Caché, like most pipes on most operating systems are Unidirectional. That means you open them for either Read or Write, but not both.
I realize that Cache Studio is the standard method to edit routines. However, some clients make it difficult to access their server that supports Studio. Is there an editor that can be run from the programmer prompt that allows simple WYSIWYG editing of routines? I know there is a %Routine class that you can use to do command-line editing, but I am looking for a full screen editor.
What was the standard in OpenVMS Cache before there was Cache Studio?
Thanks!
Bryan
Last answer 20 January 2017 Last comment 16 January 2017
Hi,
is there a way to copy namespace mappings from another namespace to a new namespace programmatically with a command?
When using management portal there is an option to choose an existing namespace to copy the mappings from, I'm basically looking for the equivalent from command line / COS.
Thanks
Martin
Last answer 22 November 2016 Last comment 22 November 2016
Importance and Collection of Exact Version Information ($zv / $zversion)
The explanation of:
- why collecting $zv is important (The WHY),
- what the components of $zv mean (The WHAT),
- and how to collect $zv (The HOW).
(The Ultimate $zv Guide to the ISC Galaxy in large, friendly letters)
Last comment 15 November 2016
Best Practices, InterSystems Data Platform Blog, System Administration, Tips & Tricks, Caché, InterSystems IRIS, InterSystems IRIS for Health
This is a list of all the posts in the data platforms capacity planning and performance series in order. Also a general list of my other posts. I will update as new posts in the series are added.
Capacity Planning and Performance Series
Generally posts build on previous, but you can also just dive in to subjects that look interesting.
I tried to make atelier look more like XCODE with this simple trick or tip: change the default font to SF Mono and size 14.
To do it I did:
1) Install SF Mono font in the system which is the default font for XCODE and needs to be installed in order to use it.
You can find it in: /Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app/Contents/Resources/Fonts
Double Click SFMono-Regular.otf file and install it. You will get a warning of "serious problems" but it will work all right.
Caché and InterSystems other products based upon Caché are very reliable. The vast majority of our customers never experience any kind of failure. However, under rare conditions Caché has failed, and in doing so may have produced a core file (called a dump file on Windows and OpenVMS). The core file contains a detailed copy of the state of the process at the instant of its failure, including the processes registers, and memory (including or excluding shared memory depending upon configuration details).
Last comment 9 November 2016
Best Practices, Caché, Terminal, InterSystems IRIS, Monitoring, Tips & Tricks, InterSystems Data Platform Blog
In this post I would like to talk about the syslog table. I will cover what it is, how you look at it, what the entries really are, and why it may be important to you. The syslog table can contain important diagnostic information. If your system is having any problems, it is important to understand how to look at this table and what information is contained there.
Last comment 9 November 2016
This is a follow-up to Murray's article for scripting pButtons data extraction on Unix/MacOS:
Extracting pButtons data to CSV for UNIX/MacOS
Extracting pButtons data to a CSV file on Windows
PowerShell scripting was used in this article because it is available by default on Windows platforms.
There is an interesting discussion in the Russian forum going.
What is the best solution for the function which returns the max for the set of parameters?
From the listed solutions I like this one:
ClassMethod max(args...) {
for i=1:1:args { s max(+$g(args(i))) = i }
s i="", max=$o(max(i),-1, i) Q $lb(max, i)
}
Last answer 31 October 2016 Last comment 3 November 2016
I was recently asked whether we have a function to convert LDAP date time stamps into $HOROLOG format or other formats and the answer is not at the moment, but there is a simple method to do the conversion.
Let us look at the facts and figures involved...
1) Active Directory's (AD) date 0 (zero) is 1601-01-01 00:00:00.000 or January 1st, 1601 at midnight (00:00:00)
2) AD timestamps are calculated as the number of 100 nanosecond intervals from date 0
3) 864000000000 is the number of 100 nanosecond intervals per day
This post is meant to provide a quick possible explanation for a very perplexing problem.
Scenario: You’ve just created your own administrative user in your 2014.1 (or later) instance of Caché. You gave it every possible security role (including %All), so it should in theory be able to do anything within the instance.
You’ve written a very advanced routine with a break command in it for debugging:
Last comment 1 November 2016
Following from Brendan's recent post on the new WRC UI (https://community.intersystems.com/post/new-wrc-customer-interface), we have put together a fairly short (9 minute) video that steps you through the different pages of the interface and shows you how to use the various features for sorting, filtering and exporting data.
Data Model, Globals, Object Data Model, ObjectScript, SQL, Tips & Tricks, Tutorial, Worldwide Response Center (WRC)
This post is the direct result of working with an InterSystems customer who came to me with the following problem:
SELECT COUNT(*) FROM MyCustomTable
Takes 0.005 seconds, total 2300 rows. However:
Last comment 1 November 2016
After reading Stephen Wilson's article "Windows 7 performs shutdown too fast for Cache to close and so it gets forced down" I've recalled another solution that was based on Local Group Policy, which allows to control extra actions that should occur on computer startup or shutdown. How to add a computer shutdown script is well documented in MS Technet article.
Last comment 27 October 2016
Hi - If you want to embed Ensemble's Workflow Inbox, (that offers workflow task items to workflow users) inside of your application - you can access the URL directly without necessarily giving users access to the Management Portal - but more importantly, you can strip away the Titlebar, Worklists and Borders that make up the page by default.
You do this by using the same URL parameters you would use, if embedding a regular DeepSee dashboard into your application.
For example, adding &EMBED=1 at the end of the URL as depicted below:
Context:
mirrored configuration with one primary member and one async member (without failover/backup member)
Purpose:
replace the CACHE.DAT of a mirrored database on the primary member.
Steps to follow:
Last comment 21 October 2016
With a routine like this one, you can quickly calculate how many lines of code you are working with. And it is not only for routines, it works for classes because remember that classes generate routines !
Here you have the routine source code:
Last comment 13 October 2016
Now, let’s say you can’t access the terminal or simply you just rather execute it from a web interface. In this article, I will show you how to execute terminal commands from a simple web page.
For example, in the image below you see how we execute $zv on a webpage:
Last comment 13 October 2016
How to parse a URL in Caché:
Let's pretend you are working on a project where you may be retrieving a URL for some purpose and you have the need to be easily able to parse apart that URL to get the various components that make up the URL.
Here's how to do that:
Last comment 7 October 2016