Hi Community!
The registration phase for InterSystems Online Programming Contest ends today and we will start the voting week!
Now we have 20 applications - so you have a set of applications to choose from!
How to vote?
This is easy: you will have one vote, and your vote goes either in Experts nomination or in Community nomination.
Hi colleagues!
Every day Johns Hopkins University publishes new data on coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic status.
I built a simple InterSystems IRIS Analytics dashboard using InterSystems IRIS Community Edition in docker deployed on GCP Kubernetes which shows key measures of the disease outbreak.
This dashboard is an example of how information from CSV could be analyzed with IRIS Analytics and deployed to GCP Kubernetes in a form of InterSystems IRIS Community Edition.
Added the interactive map of the USA:
Hi developers!
I have an existing CSP app and I want to add a role to it. How can I make it programmatically?
Hi developers!
Suppose you have a Github repository with ObjectScript classes but without a Docker environment.
Recently I published a repository with a set of files that form a universal Docker and VSCode environment to let you either import and run your repository in InterSystems IRIS Community Edition on Docker or turn your repository into Docker and VSCode environment for InterSystems IRIS Community Edition.
So in one sentence:
Unpack these files in your folder and you have the Docker and VSCode environment for your InterSystems IRIS ObjectScript application!
See the details below.
Hi Developers!
In March we are starting our first InterSystems IRIS Programming Contest! It's a competition in creating open-source solutions using InterSystems IRIS Data Platform.
The topic for the first contest is InterSystems IRIS, Docker and ObjectScript!
The contest will last three weeks: March 9-31, 2020.
Prizes:
There will be money prizes for Experts Nomination - winners will be determined by a specially selected jury:
🥇 1st place - $2,000
🥈 2nd place - $1,000
🥉 3rd place - $500
Also, there will be Community Nomination - an application that will receive the most votes in total:
🏆 1st place - $1,000
And we provide winners with high-level badges on Global Masters.
Hi Developers!
It's just a statement to let you know who is working for you this year as Developer Community Moderators. Here is our noble team!
English Community:
Spanish Community:
Moderators! thanks for your hard work to make this place busy and helpful!
Developers! You can meet in person all the moderators on InterSystems Global Summit 2020 in Seattle this year and on regional events.
Stay tuned!
Hi Developers!
Here are the release notes of changes we made to InterSystems Open Exchange since the previous release in December 2019. What's new?
See the details below.
Hi Developers!
This is the digest of new solutions and applications submitted to InterSystems OpenExchange in February 2020!
Sudoku game implementation in Excel using InterSystems IRIS as a server
RESTForms2 by Henry Hamon Pereira
RESTForms2 is a framework to create the REST API for InterSystems IRIS persistent objects automatically
FirstLook-Globals by Evgeny Shvarov
Firstlook example of InterSystems Globals
IRIS Interoperability Message Viewer by Henrique Gonçalves Dias
A new approach for the Interoperability Message Viewer
The iKnow Natural Language Processing technology was originally developed in Belgium and then acquired by InterSystems in 2010. In February 2020, InterSystems published the technology to open source, expanding the possible use cases for it beyond embedded use from the InterSystems IRIS Data Platform. iKnow is open to community contributions to enhance the engine, language models and interfaces for use in-text exploration, information extraction, and machine learning use cases.
Hi Developers!
In February we introduced into Developers Community:
See the details below.
Hi Developers!
Many of you publish your InterSystems ObjectScript libraries on Open Exchange and Github.
But what do you do to ease the usage and collaboration to your project for developers?
In this article, I want to introduce the way how to introduce an easy way to launch and contribute to any ObjectScript project just by copying a standard set of files to your repository.
Let's go!
Hi Developers!
Another way to start using InterSystems ObjectScript Package Manager is to use prebuilt container images of InterSystems IRIS Community Edition and InterSystems IRIS for Health Community Edition.
We deploy this IRIS images on DockerHub and you can run it with the following command:
docker run --rm -p 52773:52773 --init --name my-iris -d intersystemsdc/iris-community:2019.4.0.383.0-zpm
Launch a terminal with:
docker exec -it my-iris iris session IRIS
And install zpm-module as:
USER>zpm zpm: USER>install objectscript-math [objectscript-math] Reload START [objectscript-math] Reload SUCCESS [objectscript-math] Module object refreshed. [objectscript-math] Validate START [objectscript-math] Validate SUCCESS [objectscript-math] Compile START [objectscript-math] Compile SUCCESS [objectscript-math] Activate START [objectscript-math] Configure START [objectscript-math] Configure SUCCESS [objectscript-math] Activate SUCCESS zpm: USER>
And use same commands for InterSystems IRIS for Health using the tag: intersystemsdc/irishealth-community:2019.4.0.383.0-zpm
The images are being published on IRIS Community Edition and IRIS Community Edition for Health repositories of Docker Hub.
We will update tags with every new release of IRIS and ZPM.
Happy coding!
Hi Developers!
As you know the concept of ObjectScript Package Manager consists of ZPM client - client application for IRIS which helps you to install packages from the registry. And the code which works "on the other side" is ZPM Registry - server which hosts packages and exposes API to submit, list and install it. Now when you install the ZPM client it installs packages from community package registry, which si hosted on pm.community.intersystems.com
But what if you want your own registry? E.g. you produce different software packages for your clients and you want to distribute it via private registry? Also, you may want to use your own registry to deploy solutions with different combinations of packages.
Is it possible? The answer is YES! You can have it if you deploy ZPM registry on your server with InterSystems IRIS.
To make it happen you would need to set up your own registry server.
How to do that?
Hi Developers!
This is the digest of new solutions and applications submitted to InterSystems OpenExchange in January 2020!
OUReports by Irina Yaroshevskaya
Online reporting tool for InterSystems IRIS. Online User Reports - automatically analyzes data - generates automated reports - provides interface for ad hoc reports - conducts statistical research. Learn more on OUReports.com
Samples-Aviation by InterSystems
Provides sample data for use in exploring InterSystems IRIS Text Analytics capabilities.
objectscript-package-example by Evgeny Shvarov
ObjectScript Package example with a simplified folder structure to edit/compile/collaborate with InterSystems IRIS, Docker and Github.
Reducing Readmission Risks with Realtime ML by Amir Samary
Patient Readmissions are said to be the Hello World of Machine Learning in Healthcare. We use this problem to show how IRIS can be used to safely build and operationalize ML models for real time predictions and how this can be integrated into a random application.
REST Business Activity Monitoring by Stephen Pisani
Send IRIS Business Metrics to a REST Endpoint, or host a REST API to retrieve Business Metric values
eXTreme for IRIS / Caché Example by Iryna Mykhailova
A console .NET application which shows how to access, create and store globals from a .NET application using eXTreme.
zpm-dockerhub by Evgeny Shvarov
repository for publishing zpm enabled images for InterSystems IRIS via Github Actions
Hi Developers!
In January we introduced into Developers Community:
See the details below.
Hi Developers!
Thank you for participating in the 2019 DC survey!
I'd love to share some results and answer some questions which were raised in the survey.
NPS 54
You give us 54 - which is really cool! Thank you for your trust, we'll try to prove it this year again!
Hi Developers!
"objectscript.conn" :{
"ns": "IRISAPP",
"active": true,
"docker-compose": {
"service": "iris",
"internalPort": 52773
}I want to share with you a nice new feature I came across in a new 0.8 release of VSCode ObjectScript plugin by @Dmitry Maslennikov and CaretDev.
The release comes with a new configuration setting "docker-compose" which solves the issue with ports you need to set up to make your VSCode Editor connect to IRIS. It was not very convenient if you had more than one docker container with IRIS running on the same machine. Now, this is solved!
Read below how it works now.
Hi Developers!
Recently we released the updated version 0.1.3 of ObjectScript Package Manager (ZPM) which comes with the support of simplified ObjectScript sources folder structure.
What 'simplified' does mean?
Before 0.1.3 ZPM expected the following structure:
/src ---/cls - for ObjectScript classes ---/cls/package_name/class_name.cls ---/cls/package_name/class_name2.cls ---/mac - or Mac ObjectScript routines ---/mac/package_name/mac_routine.mac ---/mac/package_name/mac_routine2.mac ---/inc - for ObjectScript macro include files. ---/inc/package_name/include_file.inc
Hi Community!
We plan to get rid of the answers. Convert them all to comments, rename comments to replies and make the option to mark comments-replies as accepted.
Profit:
you don't bother what to post: answer or comment.
You can accept comments as answers
if you search for a comment you don't need to search in answers too.
What do you think?
Hi Developers!
Many of you are looking for samples on how to work with InterSystems IRIS Analytics, formerly known as DeepSee.
There is a Samples BI module with Patients and Holefoods examples which is available on Github with source code. The installation steps are clear but take time.
Recently we added the option to run IRIS Community Edition containers with ObjectScript Package Manager (ZPM) on board. This simplifies the installation to the "run-one-command" step for the modules submitted to ZPM Community Registry. And thus we can benefit the Samples BI installation with ZPM.
And here is how you can run it on your laptop. Let's go!
Hi Developers!
Recently we published on Docker Hub images for InterSystems IRIS Community Edition and InterSystems IRIS Community for Health containers.
What is that?
There is a repository that publishes it, and in fact, it is the same container IRIS Community Edition containers you have on official InterSystems listing which have the pre-loaded ObjectScript Package Manager (ZPM) client.
So if you run this container with IRIS CE or IRIC CE for Health you can immediately start using ZPM and install packages from Community Registry or any others.
What does this mean for you?
It means, that anyone can deploy any of your InterSystems ObjectScript application in 3 commands:
It is safe, fast and cross-platform.
It's really handy if you want to test a new interesting ZPM package and not harm any of your systems.
Suppose, you have docker-desktop installed. You can run the image, which wiil pull the latest container if you don't have it locally:
Hi Developers!
Often when we install a code package we want to make some post-install settings, e.g. call to a method, set up a configuration file.
This article describes how to do this with the ObjectScript Package Manager.
To make any post-install calls you need to add <Invoke> elements into <Invokes> tag to the module.xml. Each <Invoke> element can have nested <Arg> elements if you want to pass params to the method:
<Invokes> <Invoke Class="Class.Name1" Method="MethodName1"> <Arg>Sting Value</Arg> <Arg>123</Arg> </Invoke> </Invkoes>
Here is an example module.
Hi Developers!
In previous articles, we spoke on how to publish your application. But how to make Open Exchange work its best for your application?
What do you want for your application on Open Exchange? It is attention (traffic) and downloads.
Let's talk about how Open Exchange can deliver this.
Hi Developers!
Suppose you published your application on Open Exchange with version 1.00. And then you've added a new outstanding feature and you make a new release.
You can also make a new release of your application on Open Exchange.
Why make releases on Open Exchange?
This the way for you to highlight the new features of your application. When you publish a new release the following happens:
Release notes appear on the News page of Open Exchange
The version of your app changes
Version History tab is updated
All the followers of you, your application or your company receive an email notification.
Hi Developers!
Many of you work in the companies which produce tools, solutions, frameworks on InterSystems Data Platforms.
You can list your Company on Open Exchange to have an option to publish tools, solutions, and frameworks on behalf of your Company:
This article describes how to do that.
Hi Developers!
This post describes how you could publish your InterSystems application on Open Exchange.
What is the InterSystems application?
It could be anything, which is built with InterSystems data platforms or to help work with InterSystems data platforms: InterSystems IRIS, InterSystems IRIS for Health, InterSystems HealthShare, InterSystems Ensemble and InterSystems Caché. This could be tools, frameworks, adapters, examples and business solutions.
Why publish on Open Exchange?
InterSystems Open Exchange is an "App Central" for the solutions in InterSystems. It's the first place where the developer goes to look for tools, frameworks, and examples on InterSystems IRIS. And Open Exchange brings the added traffic to your solution which could be converted into leads.
We are having a set of business development tools for published Open Exchange applications. This definitely makes your InterSystems application more noticed.
Submitting an application
Suppose you have a library with open source published on Github which you want to publish on Open Exchange. For the purpose of a demo, I'll fork this remarkable project of @Peter Steiwer ObjectScript-Math which I forked and renamed to object script-super-math.
Hi Developers!
Recently we updated the design of Open Exchange and I want to describe how you can find the solutions you are interested in.
Applications Catalog
The first thing you see is the catalog of published applications, tools, and solutions.
Hi Developers!
This is the digest of new solutions and applications submitted to InterSystems OpenExchange in December 2019!
Math library for InterSystems ObjectScript
Author: @Peter Steiwer , OEX Profile
Sample for %JSONExport against a class with Many to Many Relationship
Author: @Peter Steiwer , OEX Profile
InterSystems ObjectScript zpm-registry
Server-side hosting service for ObjectScript packages installable via ZPM client.
Author: @Evgeny Shvarov, OEX Profile
Publisher: InterSystems Corporation
SUDOKU game written in InterSystems ObjectScript
Author: @Robert Cemper, OEX Profile
Sample DeepSee Portlets showing different ways to implement custom widgets
Author: @Peter Steiwer , OEX Profile
Advent of Code ObjectScript Docker Template
A simple template to craft Advent of Code with ObjectScript in InterSystems IRIS
Author: @Evgeny Shvarov, OEX Profile
Ingestion Speed Test
Shows how IRIS can ingest thousands or millions of records per second while allowing for queries on the same cluster. Works on a single IRIS instance or on an IRIS cluster on the cloud.
Author: @Amir Samary, OEX Profile
With this class, you could simulate Game of Life world that John Conway invented in 1970. We can see how John Conway universe evolves in our terminal
Author: @Jose-Tomas Salvador, OEX Profile
Hi Developers!
Happy New Year!
And I'm pleased to share the notes on the new DC Release. What comes?
See the details below, here we go!
Hi Developers!
I stuck with one interesting problem.
For example, let's use this template repo. If you build this container A using docker-compose and then run the container it exposes REST-API which is available on:
localhost:52773/person/all
The question is how to make this REST-API accessible from another docker container B running on the same machine? E.g. with IRIS 2019.4 Community from this repo?
The problem is that for the second container localhost it's something which belongs to container B.
I think I need to set up a network between containers somehow. E.g. using docker-compose. But is there any simpler way?
Hi Developers!
Recently we updated the look and feel of articles on DC:
The font is bigger, with no ads on aside.
Articles look like that now:
The intent was to make reading process for articles more focused cause sometimes we want to share a deeper thought with article and this needs more concentration and less distraction.
Do you like it?
Share your thoughts, please?