The Athena IDX data is mapped/described by class definitions.  Documatic would be a good place to start.  The class definitions come with a rich set of meta-data including

• proper Foreign Key declarations to assist in describing the relationships between tables
• Example Class queries/SQL Procs which can be referenced as examples to join tables as well as other special cases.
• A number of SQLProces to facilitate more complex joins such as the ones founding MCA_Enrollment.

Many of the tables support bitmap indices.

somewhat related, I commonly used in the past in IRIS Studio CRTL-G (goto) to jump to an entity within a class or routine.  This dialog 

allow you to goto either a Line Number or Tag or Label.

I wanted to be able to do the same in VS Code and found by looking at

https://code.visualstudio.com/shortcuts/keyboard-shortcuts-windows.pdf

in VS Code you can use CTRL-SHIFT-O.

This isn't exactly your question but the link to the shortcuts is useful and for me, CTRL-SHIFT-O is what I was looking for as I wanted to jump around without using my mouse.

the query plan tells us that it is doing a table scan on every single row in SQLUser.Records.

if er was indexed in Records it would at least use the index.,

Stefan is correct.  Getting the query plan does 2 things

1. It provides us your exact SQL statement
2. It will tell us what plan is being used and if we have any table scans.

My suspicion is you are missing an index on one of your tables that are included with the INNER JOIN.  I imagine the number of rows for these tables are on the order of you have

• n number of books
• n *10 number of orders(as a guess) 

and there is a missing index on one of the Order tables but again the results of Show Plan will provide all of the information that is needed.

the original example(first) likely isn't the best test as all of the elements are 1 character long.  My understanding is $LB data is an encoded string with the first part of the encoding containing the length of the data for an individual element.  Getting the length means you can jump a number of characters to the next element.  On the other hand $Piece does a character-by-character scan.  

ClassMethod Test() As %Status
{
	#dim tSC 			As %Status=$$$OK
	#dim eException  	As %Exception.AbstractException
	try {
		set tStart=$ZH
		for x=1:1:1000000 {
			Set a=$LB("sdfdkjfdjklfdjklfdjklfds","dlkfdjklfgjklfgjklfgjklfgjkl","fdklfdsjkljklfgjkfgjkfg") Set b=$LG(a,2)
		}
		Write !,"List Duration: ",$zh-tStart
		set tStart=$ZH
		for x=1:1:1000000 {
			Set a="sdfdkjfdjklfdjklfdjklfds_dlkfdjklfgjklfgjklfgjklfgjkl_fdklfdsjkljklfgjkfgjkfg" Set b=$P(a,"_",2)
		}
		Write !,"Piece Duration: ",$zh-tStart
		set tStart=$ZH
		for x=1:1:1000000 {
			Set a=$LB("sdfdkjfdjklfdjklfdjklfds","dlkfdjklfgjklfgjklfgjklfgjkl","fdklfdsjkljklfgjkfgjkfg") Set b=$LG(a,3)
		}
		Write !,"List Duration Getting last element: ",$zh-tStart
		set tStart=$ZH
		for x=1:1:1000000 {
			Set a="sdfdkjfdjklfdjklfdjklfds_dlkfdjklfgjklfgjklfgjklfgjkl_fdklfdsjkljklfgjkfgjkfg" Set b=$P(a,"_",3)
		}
		Write !,"Piece Duration Geting last element: ",$zh-tStart
	}
	catch eException {
		Set tSC=eException.AsStatus()
	}
	Quit tSC
}

at the same time I'd much rather deal with $List and not have to worry about escaping delimeters.

Without additional details it may be hard to tell for certain.  If it's an issue on Cache side you might consider using $Sequence in your storage model

$SEQUENCE provides a fast way for multiple processes to obtain unique (non-duplicate) integer indices for the same global variable. For each process, $SEQUENCE allocates a sequence (range) of integer values. $SEQUENCE uses this allocated sequence to assign a value to gvar and returns this gvar value. Subsequent calls to $SEQUENCE increment to the next value in the allocated sequence for that process. When a process consumes all of the integer values in its allocated sequence, its next call to $SEQUENCE automatically allocates a new sequence of integer values. $SEQUENCE automatically determines the size of the sequence of integer values to allocate. It determines the size of the allocated sequence separately for each sequence allocation. In some cases, this allocated sequence may be a single integer.

$SEQUENCE is intended to be used when multiple processes concurrently increment the same global. $SEQUENCE allocates to each concurrent process a unique range of values for the gvar global. Each process can then call $SEQUENCE to assign sequential values from its allocated range of values.

In your class definition within the you could consider changing the IdFunction from the default which is Increment to sequence

but again more detail is needed.

Nicely done.  while I haven't contributed to the project I do have a User Snippet

"Create Status Method": {
		  "prefix": "Method Create ClassMethod Returning %Status",
		  "body": [
			"///${1:Description}",
			"///<example>",
			"/// Set tSC=##class($TM_FILENAME_BASE).${2:MethodName}()",
			"///</example>",
			"ClassMethod ${2:MethodName}(${3:parameters}) As %Status",
			" {",
			"  #dim tSC \t\t\t As %Status=\\$\\$\\$OK",
			"  #dim eException \t As %Exception.AbstractException",
			"  try {",
			"   $0",
			"  }",
			"  catch eException {",
			"   Set tSC=eException.AsStatus()",
			"  }",
			" Quit tSC",
			" }"
		  ],
		  "description": "Method Create ClassMethod Returning %Status"
		}

that utilizes the <example> Documatic special tag as I too was tired typing the ##class when testing methods.  My approach is different and it's not perfect but it works for me.  It also produces a class method with a consistent pattern/structure.

I've run into something similar but with a different streamlet type.  The subscript error indicates that it is getting a null value which it expects to be non-null.  I would suggest looking at the medication streamlet and ensuring that all of the required fields are defined.  It might be the Medication.OrderItem.Code is null.

I cant speak for Templates but in the same area I do have Studio Add-Ins in use in VS Code.

I too am not entirely sure what your issue is but when I have particularly complex reports I leverage the ability to define in the ReportDefinition multiple <group> entities.  Consider for example you have a data model that has

• Batch
• Claim
• ClaimLine
• ClaimLineAdjudication

while you could define a single entity <group> which calls a single query, in my case I prefer to use Class Queries and then leverage breakOnField and create multiple <groups>, I find it makes more sense to have something like this, albeit this is psuedo code and not 100% what is entered in a Report Definition.

<group name="Batches" queryName="GetBatches">

<group name="Claims" queryName="ClaimsByBatch">

<parameter field="Batch">

<group name="Claim" 

<group name="Lines" queryName="LinesByClaim">

<parameter field="Claim">

<group name="Line">

<group name="LineAdjudications" queryName="AdjudicationByClaimLine">

<parameter field="Claim">

<parameter field="Line">

<group name="Line">

</group>

</group>

</group>

</group>

</group>

</group>

</group>

In this manner each level/group is responsible for doing one thing.  If needed I've also added to the <group> tag a filter element.  An actual example I have is this

fields="ClassName,LocalTimeChanged,RemoteTimeChanged,Description,LocalFkeys,RemoteFkeys,LocalIndices,RemoteIndices,LocalMethods,RemoteMethods,LocalProperties,RemoteProperties,LocalQueries,RemoteQueries,LocalParameters,RemoteParameters,LocalTriggers,RemoteTrigger" filter="..Filter(..FilterSpec)">

whereby I send to my method Filter the field values specified in the attribute fields as well as a FilterSpecification to test the filter.  You don't have to do it this way, its just an example of using the fields attribute and the filter attribute which is any valid objectscript expression.

Based on 

it looks like History.Views may not have indices or at least doesn't have a bitmap index.  If the table had a bitmap index it shouldn't take 30 seconds to count the rows. ... but maybe I'm incorrect.... seeing the query plan would have provided that insight.

You report that the now generates in 60 seconds and previously it 28 minutes for a twelve-page report.  Was the primary problem /time consumed in gathering the data or something else?

In the past, I have utilized %CSP.StreamServer to accomplish this.  While this may have a %CSP package name its perfectly usable in a ZEN context.

some thoughts on what you have presented.

1. It doesn't seem like the usedclassesdef.zip is available any longer

2. When examining a query plan I mostly do CONTROL-F and then search for the word looping. The statements that say "using the given ideky value" generally are not going to be of concern.  I see in your query plan it has "Read index map MSDS_Serenity.CustomeInstrument.InstIndx looping on Instrument and ID."  This seems like one area of concern.  This is telling us I believe that a table scan is being don on CustomerInstrument.  Should there be a join between Instrument and CustomerInstrument?  

3. I don't think it technically makes a difference in performance but I like to write my queries with a JOIN clause so that I have a clear understanding with the relationships between tables vs. conditions that would remove rows.  So I might write it like

 FROM MSDS_Serenity.Kit k

  JOIN  MSDS_Serenity.KitContent KC on Kc.Kitid=k.Id

 JOIN   MSDS_Serenity.Instrument I on I.Id=kc.Instrument

 JOIN   MSDS_Serenity.InstrumentGroup G on G.Id=I.GroupId

  JOIN  MSDS_Serenity.CustomInstrument CI on CI.    >>>maybe I'm incorrect but I don't see where the ci table is related to any other table, this is what is likely causing the table scan, if this table has a large number of rows this could very well be causing an issue

WHERE i.active=1 and (i.IsImpants is null or i.IsImplans!=1) 

    and k.loc=5 and k.id=9237

Again I don't think this makes any technical difference but it does allow me to isloate the relationship between tables vs the filtering that occurs due to a WHERE clause.

4. I'm not saying this is absolutely true but when I see DISTINCT in a query I wonder why it was added.  Is it because of a lack of join that was producing duplicate rows and DISTINCT was a convenient way to "hide" the logic flaw?  I could be completely off base here so please ignore if 'm completely out of line.  This is a good article on DISTINCT https://wiki.c2.com/?SelectDistinctIsaCodeSmell

5. Without knowing what the stored procedures are doing this could be a place where performance is encountering issues.
 

IRIS supports 

Create View

Create Table

Create Function

Create Query

At the same time if you have the proper IRIS license you can create analytics cubes within IRIS and as you say you can connect directly and leverage those analytics cubes.