Extracting such amount of data with using JDBC/ODBC, will be much slower than any sort of native access in Cache.

InterSystems Cache offers a way to export the whole table, with selected columns

Open System Management Portal, System Explorer, SQL. Switch to the desired namespace. Click on Wizards and select Data Export

The next steps should be pretty much simple, just select what you need to export and starts in the background. So, you will be able to control how it is going.

Look at the documentation for more details

You can use property "links" in "objectscript.conn", to add some links to your projects, which you will be able to open quickly

  "objectscript.conn": {
    "active": true,
    "username": "_system",
    "password": "SYS",
    "ns": "MYAPP",
    "port": 52773,
    "links": {
      "MyApp": "http://${host}:${port}/csp/${namespace}/main.csp"
    }
  }

After this, you will get a new item in the menu shown by click on the status bar with connection info.

To find a good replacement, the most important to know is a reason, why you need this information in the browser?

The first sample looks like you are looking for a default printer in the system.

And the second one, looking for a specific disk drive, with the letter U, and it should be network drive.

How are you going to use this information after that? Maybe the best way will be to completely change the way how you doing it or just forget about it.

Anyway, this happens due to a wish from browsers vendors, to increase a security level, so, they completely declined to use NPAPI and ActiveX. And as a side-effect of it, it's now impossible to use Java applets as well. And usually, to fix it, the simplest way was to create own simple application, which has to be installed on the users machine, and web-application application was able to connect to locally installed application through WebSockets or simple rest API in that application. 

ps. I can help you with development if you need any help.

menu.mac

ROUTINE menu
menu(routine) {
  Set rtn = ##class(%RoutineMgr).%OpenId(routine_".mac")
  Quit:'$IsObject(rtn)
  Set menu = ""
  While 'rtn.Code.AtEnd {
    Set line = rtn.Code.ReadLine()
    Continue:$Char(9,32,35)[$Extract(line)
    Continue:line'[" ; "
    Set label = $Piece($Piece(line, " "), "(")
    Set title = $Piece(line, " ; ", 2, *)
    Set menu = menu _ $Listbuild($Listbuild(label, title))
  }
  Quit menu
}
asLine(menu, pos) public {
  Set menuItem = $Listget(menu, pos)
  Quit:menuItem="" """"""
  Set $Listbuild(label,title) = menuItem
  Quit "$Char(13,10)_""" _ $Justify(pos, 4) _ ". " _ title_ """"
}

menu.inc

ROUTINE menu [Type=INC]

#Execute Set menu = $$^menu(rtname)

  Write !,"--------Menu---------"
  write ##Expression($$asLine^menu(menu,$Increment(menuLineNum)))
  write ##Expression($$asLine^menu(menu,$Increment(menuLineNum)))
  write ##Expression($$asLine^menu(menu,$Increment(menuLineNum)))
  write ##Expression($$asLine^menu(menu,$Increment(menuLineNum)))
  write ##Expression($$asLine^menu(menu,$Increment(menuLineNum)))
  write ##Expression($$asLine^menu(menu,$Increment(menuLineNum)))
  write ##Expression($$asLine^menu(menu,$Increment(menuLineNum)))
  write ##Expression($$asLine^menu(menu,$Increment(menuLineNum)))
  write ##Expression($$asLine^menu(menu,$Increment(menuLineNum)))
  write ##Expression($$asLine^menu(menu,$Increment(menuLineNum)))
  write ##Expression($$asLine^menu(menu,$Increment(menuLineNum)))
  write ##Expression($$asLine^menu(menu,$Increment(menuLineNum)))
  write ##Expression($$asLine^menu(menu,$Increment(menuLineNum)))
  write ##Expression($$asLine^menu(menu,$Increment(menuLineNum)))
  write ##Expression($$asLine^menu(menu,$Increment(menuLineNum)))
  write ##Expression($$asLine^menu(menu,$Increment(menuLineNum)))
  write ##Expression($$asLine^menu(menu,$Increment(menuLineNum)))
  write ##Expression($$asLine^menu(menu,$Increment(menuLineNum)))

  Write !!
  do {
    Write $Char(13),"Option? ",*27,"[0K"
    Read menuOption
    Quit:menuOption=""
    Quit:"qQ"[$Extract(menuOption)
    Quit:$Listget(menu,+menuOption)'=""
  } while 1
  Write !
  if (+menuOption) {
    Set label = $Listget($Listget(menu, menuOption))
    Do @label
  }
  Quit 

And some routine which will have to have menu

ROUTINE test
#; just include menu, at the place where you need it
#Include menu
  quit

task1 ; Task 1
  Write !,"Some work 1"
  quit
task2 ; Task 2
  Write !,"Some work 2"
  quit
task3 ; Task 3
  Write !,"Some work 3"
  quit
task4 ; Task 4
  Write !,"Some work 4"
  quit
task5 ; Task 5
  Write !,"Some work 5"
  quit
task6 ; Task 6
  Write !,"Some work 6"
  quit
task7 ; Task 7
  Write !,"Some work 7"
  quit
task8 ; Task 8
  Write !,"Some work 8"
  quit
task9 ; Task 9
  Write !,"Some work 9"
  quit
task10 ; Task 10
  Write !,"Some work 10"
  quit

and call it

USER>d ^test

--------Menu---------
   1. Task 1
   2. Task 2
   3. Task 3
   4. Task 4
   5. Task 5
   6. Task 6
   7. Task 7
   8. Task 8
   9. Task 9
  10. Task 10

Option? 1

Some work 1

Menu list changed after compile, but routine should be saved as MAC.
The final INT code contains the generated menu.

I have a configuration with Caché 2018.1 as an ECP Data server and a few ECP Application servers on Ensemble 2012.2. The code is compiled and deployed for 2012, only, but stored on 2018.1. The data server even does not have a namespace for an application. It only mounts databases, and code databases just like any other data, which used by application servers. Ensemble Production works on a separate application server. And ECP Data server uses mirroring, so, my ensemble production and integrations does not care about IP migration at all, they work in the same place all the time.

In case of when ECP Application server may work on different versions, I would recommend storing all the versions of code in one place anyway on ECP Data Server. Just mount a specific code version on different platforms.

what do you mean by integrating with IS? Is it just Integrating with application working on IS? Years ago, I've implemented some of the video services into our application. So, I have some experience. But this time it could be even less complex, or completely different. And anyway depends on how exactly you would like to see it. I can help you with it, please contact me directly dmitry@caretdev.com, I co-founder of a company, where we can help you to implement this or anything else.

Muni, 

First of all, you have to copy all of your journals, you currently have, so, they will not be purged by schedule.

Next, it depends, on how that data was deleted. If it happened in the transaction, so, you are lucky. It will be possible to restore that data, if not, again depends on how it was killed. Just Kill ^Global,  outside of the transaction, just kills it, with no useful information for restore.

I think you can actually do what you with ^ZJRNFILT. But I prefer direct access to journals through their API, in %SYS.Journal classes.

This is explorer view, supposed to be only to view the source of code on the server and read-only. There are two ways

  • Preferable, store any code locally, and when you save it, it will upload to server and compile it there. If you already have some of your code on server, you can export it from the explorer view.
  • Use virtual filesystem named isfs, in this case, all of your code stored only on server. Documentation

You can find some useful videos on youtube on Developer Community channel, for instance

As Kai, already mentioned, this icon, will appear only if you have any folder opened. Such a folder is a kind of project in VSCode. And, while Server Explorer view, which can be opened available by this icon, is supposed to be as just a server explorer, without editing. So, there are no reasons to make it available until any project will be opened.