Hi Community!

We're pleased to invite all DC members to the InterSystems Global Masters Gamification Platform to get points and prizes for your contribution to the Community, learn with selected content about InterSystems technology, network with your peers and have fun!

▶️ What is Global Masters?

Global Masters is a gamification platform, where you learn technology, complete tech quizzes, watch videos, etc. You will be completing challenges (tasks) related to ISC technology, earning badges & points, and exchanging points for a variety of rewards.

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Summer is coming to an end, and we’re sure you had plenty of highlights! ✨

Maybe you learned something valuable, got yourself a reward on Global Masters, or even joined READY 2025 🎉

Here’s a quick checklist — but you can, of course, share anything else about your summer in the comments. Photos are more than welcome 📸

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You’ve probably already seen that the October Article Bounty is live on Global Masters! 🍁🚀

Submit a brand-new article on one of the announced topics and earn a bounty of 🏆 5,000 Global Masters points once it’s approved! 🎉

Here’s the list of October topics:

1. Comparison of when direct access via global is faster than access via class/SQL
2. A comparison matrix of connectivity methods to InterSystems IRIS to help developers choose the best option for their use case
3. Monitoring and Observability in InterSystems IRIS (with Dashboards & Tools) Guides
4. Beginner’s Guide: Using SQL in InterSystems IRIS
5. Unit Tests Tutorials
6. Practical code examples for ObjectScript Beginners
7. Securing Your InterSystems IRIS Deployment with SSL/TLS: Configuration Tips & Gotchas
8. Large Data handling
9. JSON transformations in DTL (Data Transformation Language)
10. Working with Stream Objects in InterSystems IRIS
11. Best Practices for Data Migration in InterSystems IRIS (Guide / Tips)

Rules to follow:

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It’s time to bring some spotlight to the authors and participants of our September Article Bounty! A big thank-you to everyone who took part💙

Special shout-out to those who took the time to write brand-new articles and share their expertise (each received 5,000 points 🎉):

@Robert Cemper >> "IRIS in Docker for beginners"
@sween >> "IKO Plus: Stretched Cross Regional IrisCluster with Tailscale on Google Cloud Platform"
@Ariel Glikman >> "High Availability IAM"
@Pietro Di Leo >> "Running InterSystems IRIS with Docker: A Step-by-Step Guide - Part 1: From the Basics to Custom Dockerfile"
@Guilherme Tonelotti >> "Create a JDBC connection with Mysql Cache"
@Vachan C Rannore >> "From "Oops" to "Aha!" - Avoiding Beginner Mistakes in ObjectScript"

And also to those who joined the challenge and helped us in the search for interesting articles (each received 30 points 🙌):

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Starting out with ObjectScript, it is really exciting, but it can also feel a little unusual if you're used to other languages. Many beginners trip over the same hurdles, so here are a few "gotchas" you'll want to watch out for. (Also few friendly tips to avoid them)


NAMING THINGS RANDOMLY

We have all been guilty of naming something Test1 or MyClass just to move on quickly. But once your project grows, these names become a nightmare.

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You’ve probably already seen that the September Article Bounty is in full swing! 🚀

You can either submit an existing up-to-date article on one of the topics and earn 30 points,
or write a brand-new article from scratch and get a bounty of 🏆 5,000 points once it’s approved! 🎉

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Hey, Developer Community!

We’ve launched a brand-new activity on Global Masters — the Article Bounty!
It’s your chance to share your expertise, help fellow developers, and, of course, earn points while doing it.

👉 Join the August Article Bounty on Global Masters here

Earlier, we launched the Submit an Article Idea challenge — where Global Masters members could suggest new articles, tutorials, how-tos, and more. We received an overwhelming number of fantastic ideas!

👉 Now, once a month, we’ll publish a list of 10 in-demand topics requested by the community.
You can choose a topic from the list, write an article about it, and earn bounty of 🏆 5,000
points when the article is approved.

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Hi Community,

We are pleased to introduce a new reward on Global Masters:

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The reward is available for redemption for all GM advocates.
If you want to redeem an access to Coursera for another period of time, e.g. 1 or 3 month - just let us know!

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Hey Community! New rewards have arrived on Global Masters 🎁

With our July update, we’ve added some fresh new options for you to choose from! The rewards catalog is now packed with even more exciting ways to exchange your points for something truly useful, , and well-deserved If you’ve been saving up your points, now’s the perfect time to treat yourself!



➡️ Enter Global Masters to check out available prizes*.

🧩 Want to learn how to earn points faster? You can find tips and guidance here

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Hello my friends,

I have a problem with Objectscript, why the value of address become like this ?

everything works fine except the Address,

this is my code, do I need something to make this into real address ? should I put something in my code ?

set paper=obj.PAADMPAPMIDR.PAPMIPAPERDR

if '$isobject(paper) continue

set Address=paper.PAPERStName

thank you for your help

Best Regards,

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Here’s a special thread where you can tell a bit about yourself — because connecting and learning more about each other is what makes this community great 💬✨

We had a similar discussion on our old Global Masters platform — you might remember! We’re excited to bring that networking opportunity back to the community.

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It helps to remove special characters, such as non-utf-8 characters either control characters or unicode characters from text that is not printable or can't be parsed by downstream systems.

There is also $C(32) in this condition; sometimes NBSP appears in the text and it will not be recognized by TIE, but downstream it displays as "?".

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You can learn a lot from a first impression; we want to hear about yours.

As a continuation of our User Insights Interview program (see this post for more details), we’re expanding our scope to include Python developers, particularly those of you who are new to working with InterSystems technology. We’re looking to conduct one-on-one interviews to hear your honest thoughts about getting started: What made sense, what didn’t, and where we could improve.

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We are receiving the report in text format and it has special characters like ', - like that in the text. Source system is using the UTF8 encoding format hence the text is showing as ' � ' . Is there a way to convert the utf8 to actual character in the DTL.

Thank you,

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Are you a developer, data engineer, integration engineer, or data scientist who works hands-on with InterSystems products?

We are conducting 30-45 minute interviews to understand your experience — how you started with InterSystems products, where you find helpful code samples, and how we can improve our products to better support your journey.

If you’re interested, fill out a quick survey to share your contact info and experience.

If you're selected, we will schedule a session at your convenience between April 2 and May 8 for an interview based on the information you provide.

🎁 As a thank-you, interview participants will receive 10,000 Global Masters points!

Your feedback will directly help us improve your experience using InterSystems products and services.

Kindly note that the spots are limited.

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Hello there 🙋‍♂️,

I'm looking towards a functionality alike Python's difflib, but made with Intersystems products. I already know could embed Python code within IRIS but thought maybe there was a development already done for handling deltas, with a different approach or extra utils.

Even if I find such a library after comparing both might still go with difflib or any other more suitable. Intend to use it for a cross-environment checklist/check tool.

Please find below a sample of HTML rendering computed and made with difflib, with a few lines of code:

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Hi,

I found an issue while fetching records from FHIR DB, I am getting below error thou FHIR repository have the records with the corresponding id

{

"resourceType": "OperationOutcome",

"issue": [

{

"severity": "error",

"code": "not-found",

"diagnostics": "<HSFHIRErr>ResourceNotFound",

"details": {

"text": "No resource with type 'Appointment' and id '21'"

}

}

]

}

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