I just got a digest email alerting me to a change in the article https://community.intersystems.com/post/studio-tip-running-cos-commands…

 and when I use the list-style view of the dashboard it appears at the top with a recent "updated" timestamp:

But when I open the article the date info on the article and on all of the comments all points to changes 5 or 6 months ago.

I wonder if someone voted up the article earlier today and perhaps that triggered the update notification. If so, I think that's a bug. I don't want to know every time someone votes up (or down) an article.

Studio's "Package Information" dialog, accessed from the context menu of a package on the Namespace tab of the Workspace pane, includes a field titled "Routine Prefix"

Help says this is a "String that is used as a prefix for the routines generated from classes in this package".

But if it set a string here, then recompile a class in the package, it doesn't affect the name of the generated routine(s). Nor does it influence the routine names generated when I create new classes in the package and compile them. I have tested on 2016.1.

We at George James Software are pleased to announce the release of version 2.6 of Serenji, our editor and debugger for Caché, Ensemble and HealthShare.
The main enhancement in 2.6 is the ability to run on a Linux <edit> or OS X </edit> workstation using Wine 1.8. More release details are here.
This is a free upgrade to users already holding an activation key. For new users a free 30 day evaluation period is granted upon installation.
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Senior Product Engineer
George James Software

If there isn't yet, maybe consider a DC enhancement to add an adornment to their name or photo to indicate this.

Just today I've started getting some digest emails referring to threads that don't show any recent updates.

Is anyone else experiencing the same?

Here's a screenshot from the summary page, highlighting a couple of timestamps:

But when I open the article, here's what the posting reports:

And the timestamps of the two answers:

So why does the summary page report that the posting and the last answer are many hours more recent than they seem to be when I look at them?

I think it'd make more sense to have them in alpha order rather than as they currently are, which is sorted by their internal value:

Here is a screenshot from my 2016.2 FT instance of Studio and Ensemble:

I don't recall having seen the highlighted "+" suffix on document names previously. Who can tell me what it denotes?

I originally posted this in the Field Tests group but it turned out to be a 2016.1 feature that I hadn't previously noticed. So I subsequently moved the post to the Cache group.

I create a new blank post. Then I choose a group (I picked Caché). Next I click int the "Related Topics" field. At this point Firefox stops responding. It happens with FF 45.0.1 on 32-bit Windows and with 46.0.b7 on 64-bit Windows.

I'm posting this report using Chrome.

When the Group field on the Create Post page was a list, if I started my post from a group's homepage such as https://community.intersystems.com/group/developer-community-feedback then this group was preselected.

Now that the Group field is a set of radiobuttons I have to select the group.

Is this a bug or an intentional change?

Here's the scenario. I write a post, click the Publish button to post it,  but overlook the fact that because I didn't add a tag I'm still on the same page. The pink area highlighting what I forgot to fill in is out of sight at the bottom of the page. I carelessly navigate away (e.g. back button, or DC app tabs). There's no warning, and I've lost what I wrote.

In the screenshot below the left is Chrome, the right IE11 (with About box info showing).

In both cases I'm not logged in to DC, but I don't think that's relevant:

Here's something I find a bit awkward. Suppose I'm reading the posts in a group, e.g from https://community.intersystems.com/group/developer-community-feedback

I see an interesting post, so I click into it.

I add a comment to the post.

Now I want to go back to the list of posts in the group, i.e. to https://community.intersystems.com/group/developer-community-feedback but I don't see a link that takes me there. I have to resort to several clicks on the browser back button.

Perhaps it'd help if somewhere on a post's header you gave us the name of the group owning the post.

I have flagged a couple of posts as favorites. Here's how they appear at the bottom of the right-hand column when I'm on the DC homepage:

Is it deliberate that the obscure the start of the post names?

Here are a few tips that might be useful to people who are running applications in an environment that's configured to use InterSystems mirroring.

• If you configure an ECP connection to a Caché instance that is a mirror member databases then the ECP connection should also have mirroring enabled (tick the mirroring box when defining the connection). More details here. You may also need to increase the number of ECP connections each end accepts, to cater for the way both members of a mirror pair get involved in ECP negotiation.

Apparently if I pose a question (like this one) and subsequently discover an answer, I can't add that as an answer. I'd have to resort to a comment on the original posting, or editing the original posting.

After the March 15th DC update I posted one Question (as opposed to Article). I've been used to getting notified by email no more than an hour after someone responds to a post of mine. In the case of my question, I think I only got that email when someone posted a Comment on the question. When I went to read that comment I saw that there were several Answers that had been posted many hours earlier.

It's possible I overlooked earlier notification emails, so part of the purpose of this question is to act as a test. Please don't add a comment to the question. Instead, add an Answer.

Prompted by the words Rick didn't actually say to his pianist in Casablanca, I want to draw attention to the the "Resend" button at the top of the Ensemble Message Viewer.

It's pretty easy to use. Find the message or messages you want to resend, set the associated selection checkbox(es), then click the button.

The Message Viewer page is replaced by the Resend Messages page where you can review the message(s) you selected, then proceed.

Look at this screenshot from the homepage. The "post" timestamp is the same as the "last comment" one.

Drilling into the item shows the correct amount of time since I created it.

Among the outputs of our Yuzinji tool are two code metrics that it can be interesting to track over time as a development project proceeds. These are Size and XS. The first is fairly straightforward. As you write more code the size of your codebase increases. The XS metric (pronounced "excess") aims to quantify excessive structural complexity. XS is explained in some detail in this 2006 whitepaper from Headway Software, whose Structure101 toolset Yuzinji leverages.

By analyzing a codebase using Yuzinji at key milestones we can investigate how these metrics change.

Look at this. I see the same whether using Firefox or Chrome.

Are titles such as "answer406171" expected?

Since the March 15 update, Related Topic is now a mandatory field. My first post since the update was to this Developer Community Feedback group, and I found it hard to choose an appropriate Related Topic. I ended up picking "Online Learning" for that post, and will use the same for this one too.

Here's what I now get (screenshot from Chrome at 75% zoom, yellow markers added to the posts with the wrong font)

:

One aspect of source code management is how to deal with the almost inevitable need to upgrade your Caché or Ensemble platform to a newer InterSystems release.

It's long been my experience that InterSystems does a very good job of maintaining backward compatibility. Code that works correctly on, say, 2012.1 is very likely to work correctly on, say, 2015.2 without any modification.

I'd guess that few sites are in a position to take a "big bang" approach and upgrade all of their instances (e.g. dev, test, live, DR) at the same time.

When you create an Ensemble production your namespace acquires a new class definition. For example here is what the class that defines the Demo.Loan.BankUSProduction production in the ENSDEMO namespace looks like when opened in Studio:

Class Demo.Loan.BankUSProduction Extends Ens.Production [ ClassType = "", ProcedureBlock ]
{

XData ProductionDefinition
{
<Production Name="Demo.Loan.BankUSProduction" TestingEnabled="true">
  <ActorPoolSize>2</ActorPoolSize>
  <Item Name="Demo.Loan.BankUSTerminalService" ClassName="Demo.Loan.

If I have defined a class query in one of my classes and I want to use that query from a method of another class, what are the pros and cons of using the %SQL.Statement interface versus the %Library.ResultSet interface?

I believe %SQL.Statement is the newer interface.

So if the old way is:

USER>s rs=##class(%Library.ResultSet).%New("%Library.File:FileSet")
 
USER>s sc=rs.Execute("c:\s\","*.txt")
 
USER>w sc
1
USER>while rs.%Next() {w !,rs.Data("Name")}

...

then the new way is:

USER>s oStmt=##class(%SQL.Statement).%New()
 
USER>s sc=oStmt.

In this posting I want to raise the profile of a feature that arrived in 2009.1 but is perhaps not very well known.

It is sometimes useful to make certain packages, globals or routines available to all of your namespaces. Of course you can add the necessary mappings whenever you create a new namespace, but here's a simpler way.

First you need a special namespace definition called %ALL Create it in the same way you'd create any namespace. It doesn't matter which database you set as its default for code and data.

I just saw this new posting by Mike Kadow on the "Caché, Ensemble, DeepSee" Google Group announcing the availability of his new book, "Caché and MUMPS - Part II"

There's also more information about it at his site http://www.cosmumps.org/

If your Ensemble environment is actually a HealthShare one, here's a snippet of information that I wasn't able to find in the documentation.

When a namespace is HealthShare-enabled it gets some mappings added to it in order to fetch stuff from the HSLIB database. The most obvious mapping is a package mapping that gives your namespace all the HS.* classes.

Far less obvious is that your namespace will also be fetching/filing Test.* classes from the HSLIB database. So if you thought that, say, Test.