Hi Community!

We are proud to annouce our latest release of CachéQuality to help you to find and solve coding errors, refactoring, help to follow you coding guidelines, etc. You can check the latest release notes here.

Hello community!

At the global summit in Phoenix, we (Lite Solutions) will be presenting a tool performing static code analysis on ObjectScript source files. You can see it in action at this URL:

https://demo.cachequality.com

Technically, the tool is a language plugin over SonarQube (http://sonarqube.org) and consists of three main parts:

• parsing the language,
• collecting metrics,
• collecting issues.

The third point is where we kindly request for feedback.

Hello community,

I am pleased to announce version 1.1 of this project. Now Russian 

As a developer, usually I'm concerned about how my code health is, and how the other coders code can affect to my own work.  And I'm quite sure most of us feel very similar.

In our company we use a Static Code Analysis tool to analyze code for different languages to ensure we are writing high quality and easily maintainable code by following a few best practices in terms of code structure and content. And the question was: why should be different for Caché ObjectScript language?

In this article I would like to present the RESTForms project - generic REST API backend for modern web applications.

The idea behind the project is simple -after I wrote several REST APIs I realized that generally, REST API consists of two parts:

• Work with persistent classes
• Custom business logic

And, while you'll have to write your own custom business logic, RESTForms provides all things related to working with persistent classes right out of the box.
Use cases

• You already have a data model in Caché and you want to expose some (or all) of the information in a form of REST API
• You are developing a new Caché application and you want to provide a REST API

Database Blocks Explorer for InterSystems Caché

Key features

Tree explorer

• Shows tree of database blocks;
• Export tree as SVG or PNG image;
• Shows every node in the block;
• Open any block just by clicking on node in parent block;
• Reload block info by clicking at the same node second time;
• Zoom in and out, fit and navigator;
• Easy way to switch between view modes (tree/map);

Fragmentation map

• Shows every block with the same colour for every globals;
• Legend for globals;

Installation

Minimal supported version is 2015.3 or 2016.1.

Hi,

I know you're doing a big effort to build a new IDE in Eclipse ecosystem but Visual Studio Code is a new an even better and faster tool for coding... did you have any plans to release any COS extension for it in the near future? There you can already find extensions for all current more common progrmaming languages and it would be great to have COS as one of them.

Thanks

Is there any Test Driven Development tool for Cache for the web development. If so can any one help me on this.

Thanks in advance.

One of the most important features during application development is the ability to debug your code easily. Because of the asynchrnous nature, a standard Node.js application server works single-threaded by default. When you are developing applications using an IDE like Visual Studio Code, you can very easily debug your Node.js process:

First, download the free Visual Studio Code IDE (@code) and install it on your development machine.

We will start with basic debugging using a very small test.js file and go to the debug view:

This 'feature' have been around for a long time, but I don't see any articles on it so I thought I would make everyone aware.

Hello everybody.

What I have is a criteria how to select "my" strings. What I need is to replace all of them with macro calls (using the same strings as arguments) in all classes of current namespace.

I was ready to write straightforward code, but at the last moment decided to ask the community: maybe I've overlooked a smarter option?

Any comments and advices would be great appreciated.

This is the first article of a series diving into visualization tools and analysis of time series data. Obviously we are most interested in looking at performance related data we can gather from the Caché family of products. However, as we'll see down the road, we are absolutely not limited to that. For now we are exploring python and the libraries/tools available within that ecosystem.

The series is closely tying into Murray's excellent series about Caché performance and monitoring (see here) and more specifically this article.

In this short article we talk about how to get Yape running in a docker container to avoid having to setup python on your machine.

It's been a while since the last article in this series, so let's recap quickly.

We talked about using matplotlib to create a basic graph. Afterwards we introduced dynamic graphs using bokeh. In the 3rd part we talked about generating heatmaps using monlbl data.

You might find it useful or not. It depends on what you can imagine it to be used with, like I had to.

Either way, I created a lib that can fetch environment variables from a file or from the OS where Caché is running.

Mostly know as dotenv. Many languages have it, so why not Caché?
The usage is pretty simple:
If you want to use OS env vars exclusively, just use the method:

##class(DotEnv.Parser).FromOS()

Otherwise, if you want to specify a .env file containing your variables to complement the OS ones use the method:

##class(DotEnv.Parser).FromPath("/path/to/file")

Hi!

Recently GitHub introduced topics for the projects.

So you can change your InterSystems related projects introducing the  topics to let it be categorized, more visible and searchable. Here is the list of good examples for your projects (some of them are clickable already):

intersystems, intersystems-cache, intersystems-ensemble, intersystems-healthshare, healthshare, intersystems-iknow, iknow, intersystems-deepsee, deepsee, cache-objectscript, csp, intersystems-zen, zen.

If you have any good ideas for topics or already using something, please introduce it here in the comments?

About the Ontodia library

First of all, I think we should provide some background information about Ontodia and Caché DBMS. Let’s start with a less known product, Ontodia. Ontodia is the result of a joint project of the ISST lab of the ITMO University and VISmart, a software development company specializing in the semantic web domain. The Ontodia service was created as a web application for visualizing linked data and ontologies. We created this service because we couldn’t find simple, accessible and efficient tools for convenient visualization of linked data.

Please let know if it is feasible to integrate Security tools ( W3af and Iron Wasp ) with intersystems. If so, please let know how to do that..

Hi

I have an Ensemble Application with many classes and relationships between those classes.

I need a tool that can connect to Cache/Ensemble and create a visual ERD from the class definitions within a particular Cache Namespace

MS-Access is one option but it does not automatically create the relationship connectors between classes

Any suggestions

Nigel Salm

I am unable to find any classes that will return the status of all the services in a production. Is there one available?

Code coverage and performance optimization of code has come up a bunch of times already, so most of you should already be aware of the SYS.MONLBL utility. Often a visual approach to looking at code is much more intuitive than pure numbers, which is pretty much the whole point of this article series. This time we will take a slight excursion away from python and its tools and are going to explore generating heatmaps from ^%SYS.MONLBL reports.

Hello,

Does there exist a User Defined Language pack for Caché ObjectScript for use in Notepad++? I'm hoping some friendly developer somewhere may have created one . http://docs.notepad-plus-plus.org/index.php/User_Defined_Language_Files

Hi everyone,

I've created an Identicon Generator inspired on Fabio GonçalvesCaptcha Validator.

This sample can be used to create Identicons for users of app for example, it can be useful to use in Zen Mojo applications, generating an identifier image based on name of the user by example, but it can be used in others kind of applications too(Zen, CSP etc)

Examples:

First one:

Will generate this:

And this:

Will generate this:

See my Github project: https://github.com/AndreiLN/Ikon

Best regards,

Andrei L. Nenevê

> Customizable System Monitoring. ## Introduction The Polymetric Dashboard is a stand-alone module that provides enhanced monitoring tools for a Caché environment. Equipped with over one hundred sensors that monitor key system metrics, a robust REST API, and a modular AngularJS user interface, the Polymetric Dashboard is fully functional out of the box. However, the Polymetric Dashboard is designed to be customizable; any system metric can be monitored by creating a new sensor, and the visualization of collected data can be tailored to specific requirements and purposes. --- ## Goal Monitoring

There's plenty of goodness in the %-packages InterSystems supplies, and it seems that every new version of Caché brings something new. The browser-based class documentation (a.k.a. Documatic) generally provides a good level of information, but on the basis that "a picture is worth a thousand words" I sometimes want a diagram.

For example, when trying to navigate the %Dictionary package for a project that needed to find out about class definitions, here's one of the UML class diagrams I created.

Hi,

I just updated Atelier to 1.01.263 and now many of the Atelier icons/images are blurry and the spacing in the Atelier Explorer doesn't look right. This is on Windows 10.  Is this a known issue? Are there any settings I need to adjust?

For reasons that I won't go into here, I need to run Cache Terminal in Linux using Wine.

It starts up ok, but when I try to establish a connection to a remote server I get the following error:

Ctermsecure Read Error
Could not obtain terminal server client name.
Reason: (10035, 0x2733) unknown error

If I launch CTerm.exe from a command line then I get the following:

In last week's discussion we created a simple graph based on the data input from one file. Now, as we all know, sometimes we have multiple different datafiles to parse and correlate. So this week we are going to load additional perfmon data and learn how to plot that into the same graph. Since we might want to use our generated graphs in reports or on a webpage, we'll also look into ways to export the generated graphs.

Loading windows perfmon data

The class %Compiler.UDL.TextServices arrived in 2015.1, bringing us methods for exporting a class in UDL format (i.e. looking just like we're used to seeing it in Studio), and importing a UDL format definition back into a namespace. Some source control tools including our Deltanji are now able to use UDL format, resulting in diffs that are easier to understand.

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