You can also use the iris.system object in python. 

iris.system.Version.GetVersion() returns the full version ($ZV)

IRIS for UNIX (Ubuntu Server LTS for x86-64 Containers) 2022.2 (Build 356U) Thu Oct 6 2022 22:56:28 EDT

There are other methods here to call to such as GetMajor() which would return '2022' and GetPlatform() which returns 'Ubuntu Server LTS for x86-64 Containers'

do dir(iris.system.Version) at the python shell to see them all.

You can certainly do this.  Of course that means you have to maintain it for versioning and such.  I am also not sure on the legal licensing issues here if that is something that is a risk for you.  After all it is the content of the file that is licensed, not the file itself.

Best of luck with X12!

Prudhvi,

The simplest answer is no.   ZEN, which has been a deprecated technology for some time, is a complete framework deeply integrated to Cache.  It relies heavily on synchronous communications which has been deprecated by, thought still available, by most browsers.  For both reasons new development should not be done using ZEN.

Angular, on the other hand, is a modern framework for Web Application development.  It is inherently asynchronous and therefore disconnected from the back-end.  As Eduard stated the typical communication methodology is for the back-end to provide a RESTful interface which are quite easy to develop and publish both direct from IRIS or via the InterSystems API Manager.

I am going to make the assumption that this is part of an existing application that you are looking do new development on.  As stated ZEN is deprecated therefore it would be a good idea to develop a roadmap to migrate from ZEN to something like Angular.  I would take this new project and use it to explore the move to Angular.

You should also note that at some unknown point in time browsers could remove support for synchronous communications.  The latter will likely not happen for quite some time as many older applications still rely on it.  Several years back one browser, Firefox I think, tried to remove this support and had to quickly backtrack as too many applications stopped working.  So you have time.

There is no general rule-of-thumb.  It really depends on the nature of your application and usage patterns.  For example if this is primarily a REST based service I would set the maximum to your license capacity minus a reserve for administrative functions, background tasks, and reporting.

In a mixed environment you need to have a more balanced setup of REST (web) calls versus direct connections.

As I indicated you really need to have an idea of the use patterns of your application.

One thought that occurs to me is to check the 'Maximum Server Connections' settings in the CSP  Gateway under Server Access.  This is the maximum number of connections allows and when reached further requests are queued until a connection is available or the client times out.  This is often used with REST services to avoid clients receiving a licensing error which is not desirable or to avoid any CSP calls from consuming the entire system.   If this is the case you should examine your license usage and CSP Sessions to see what might be overloading the server. 

Of course if this is a very active system then you may need to increase the maximum connections allowed and possibly the license as well.

Hope that helps.

Diego,

As I understand it you are have an existing VM on AWS that you have access too.  When you do the SSH command you indicated you end up at linux command prompt and you need to know how to install IRIS in that environment.  This is a straight installation and not running in a docker container.

All that being the case you need to do the following:

1. Download the appropriate installation kit from https://wrc.intersystems.com/wrc/coDistIRIS.csp.  You can filter the name by 'Health' and the OS by 'Ubuntu' to get a shorter list.
2. Now use scp to copy that installation file to your AWS environment.  Note scp has similar syntax to the ssh and cp commands.  Google it and you will find many resources for this command
3. Finally read the documentation on installation. https://docs.intersystems.com/iris20221/csp/docbook/DocBook.UI.Page.cls?... https://docs.intersystems.com/iris20221/csp/docbook/DocBook.UI.Page.cls?...

If you get stuck on any issues come back here or call directly into the Worldwide Response Center https://www.intersystems.com/support.

Finally, if you DON'T have an existing environment you can look at InterSystems Cloud Manager to provision and deploy IRIS for Health to a cloud environment.

https://docs.intersystems.com/iris20221/csp/docbook/DocBook.UI.Page.cls?...

Much of the documentation refers to deployment with containers. However there is a containerless option too which is covered in one of the subsections off this main page.

I hope this helped you get started.

Daniel,

Ok, so the data is basically a parsed report and each daily run replaces the previous run with no Delta or net change processing.  So on error they could just rerun the process to get the data.  

One suggestion on the alerting, use a distribution group as the address to send to and make sure a at least one of the Business consumers of the data are on that list.  Just alerting a technical resource could lead the business side to use incomplete data as they don't know that something went wrong.  Relying on the technical resource to pass on this information  can be risky.  Not a dig at the customer, just reality.

So, back to your question, I would still lean towards a solution that separates the loading of the data from the export to MS SQL Server.   Since you want to avoid the use of messages for the data I would still lean towards a global mapped to IRISTEMP, note NOT a process private global as the business hosts will be in separate processes.  This is a repetitive process so the fact that the DB will grow should not be an issue.  It will reach a size necessary to handle the load and stay there.  You can, if needed, programatically handle the mapping using the Config.MapGlobals API ( https://docs.intersystems.com/irislatest/csp/documatic/%25CSP.Documatic.cls?&LIBRARY=%25SYS&CLASSNAME=Config.MapGlobals).

So this would look something like this:

1. Business Service accepts and processes the data into a non-journaled global on a schedule.  When the data has been consumed a message is generated that is sent to the Business Operation to trigger the next phase
2. Business operation to write to MS SQL Server reacts to receiving a message to process, including how to identify the dataset to load.  The process consumes the data out of the Global to write to SQL Server.  Once complete the data in the Global for this run is purged.

Anyway that is my two cents on this.  I am sure others will have different ideas.

Here is a quick example program I wrote a couple of months ago.  This uses JDBC and the JayDeBeapi library others have mentioned.  Note the Credentials import provides a set of  login credentials in the following format.

LocalCreds = {"user":"SuperUser", "password":"SYS"}

Here is the code:

Daniel,

One thing I always recommend is to get familiar with the API using a standalone tool before attempting to code the programmatic interface.  I like Postman as it has pretty good UI to work with.  If you are at the command line you can use curl.

https://www.postman.com/

Postman can also give you the code for different programming environments.  Unfortunately not Objectscript, but it is fairly easy to translate from the examples you can see.

Marcos,

I was going through some unanswered questions and came across yours. If you could share your spec to DM it to me I can take a look.

However, understand that the %Stream.Object probably contains the JSON payload that you need.  As such you can get your dynamic object with the following command:

set dyObject = {}.%FromJSON(body)

hope that helps.