go to post Ben Spead · May 21, 2020 Allan - do you just need Studio or do you need a running DB at 2017.1? If you need a running DB then you will need a license, and assuming you have a license as a supported customer you can grab the distribution you need from the WRC Downloads page: https://wrc.intersystems.com/wrc/coDistribution.csp If you only need Studio in order to connect to a 2017.1.1 instance, then you can install the latest InterSystems IRIS Community Edition which is freely available at https://download.InterSystems.com and you can install that and use InterSystems Studio from within that installation to connect to the 2017.1 instance. Technically, if you are not a Supported Customer then you should only have access to the Community Edition software kits. Please let us know if you are able to get what you need from this.
go to post Ben Spead · May 21, 2020 I have a follow-up question about the coloration Dmitriy. Any of the developers on my team may need to connect to anywhere from 50-60 shared servers for development, testing and production, and years ago we simplified access by having our change control system auto-generate windows registry keys so that developers can simply import the file and their cube's Server Manager will automatically list all applicable Studio server connections for that application. For Studio, server-specific background coloration is stored in the Windows Registry so we auto-color each of the servers according to their type (no color for dev, test is yellow background and production is a red background). We have found this to be extremely helpful in preventing accidental checking out of source in non-development environments (we use serverside source control hooks exclusively). Eventually we'll be moving to VSCode (once server-side workflows are complete) and I would very much like to create an equivalent solution where a developer can easily and quickly build out a catalog of servers to connect to from VSCode by generating the required json connection files on our change control application so developers can just import them into their local environments. Will it be possible to include color along with the JSON that includes the server connection details? Or is the color config stored somewhere apart from your plug-in in VSCode?
go to post Ben Spead · May 15, 2020 I suggest you contact Support if no one provides insights on this thread.
go to post Ben Spead · Apr 21, 2020 Kevin, If you are interested in a full kit install rather than a container, you can get yourself a full kit of InterSystems IRIS For Health Community Edition from: https://download.InterSystems.com (If you are interested in a container, see the other answers people have already given you) HTH - welcome to the community and feel free to ask any questions here as you are learning / gaining your experience! Ben
go to post Ben Spead · Mar 24, 2020 Excellent article Tim! Great description of how people can move the ball forward with the maturity of their development processes :)
go to post Ben Spead · Feb 25, 2020 @Amanda Priestly - yes, absolutely. The initial beta covers the 6 areas covered in this article. We will eventually be updating the entire application but we're working through it one section at a time. The next section will be the System Details page.
go to post Ben Spead · Feb 25, 2020 @Amanda Priestly - thank you so much for trying it out! The issue is that there are many sites around the world with a SystemName of "T2018". You need to specify the site that you're interested in, eg "SCBO/T2018". We have a development task to make this more clear and keep people from being stuck on this point. I hope we'll have it in place within the next week or so. Thank you!
go to post Ben Spead · Feb 21, 2020 I suggest you work with your Sales Rep to discussion licensing options. As a licensed customer you can go to evaluation.intersystems.com in order to grab an InterSystems IRIS evaluation key for trying out the product.
go to post Ben Spead · Feb 19, 2020 Neerav, Thank you for your interest! Although per the post this is only open to "users at CCR-controlled sites". Looking at your D.C. profile I don't think this is the case for you. If you are actually using CCR already, then you will need to log in with the InterSystems SSO account that you use to do your CCR work in order to try out the beta. Thanks!
go to post Ben Spead · Dec 19, 2019 Neerav, For internal applications within InterSystems, we've chosen a webapp strategy of: - REST services from Caché/InterSystems IRIS - Angular8 - Angular Material We are part-way into the implementation of this strategy and so far so good. However, the work that we've done so far doesn't yet fit in the category of "tons of data to display' so I can't comment first-hand on the efficacy of this stack for that requirement (but you should be able to find experiences of others using Angular for data-heavy web apps). We are using this for new application development, and we're also working to retrofit existing CSP/Zen apps and move them to this stack. Hope that helps!
go to post Ben Spead · Nov 14, 2019 Mike - I think the issue is that Apache is working in conjunction with Web Applications defined in Caché, and it hands off requests to the Web Applications (e.g. /csp/samples), which then serve out the files (this is configurable btw for static files). This is why you can put something in /csp/samples or another existing web application and it works. The issue is that in putting something at \Cache\CSP\index.csp, there is no Web Application with a root of \Cache\CSP\, and so there is no Web Application to route the request to, and thus the 404 error. You could create a new Web Application in Caché that points to \Cache\CSP\ but that would be a bit of a security issue because people could navigate to files in other web applications from there and potentially get to things they should not. Why do you want to put something at the top level rather than in the root for a Web Application in Caché?
go to post Ben Spead · Nov 5, 2019 David - FYI, the full Release Version of 2019.1.1 Community Editions is now available at Download.InterSystems.com
go to post Ben Spead · Oct 28, 2019 Joel, I completely agree with you! Within InterSystems we have at least one development team that has codified this via serverside source control hooks which automatically expand use standard case for all commands (there was a presentation on this at last year's Global Summit). Adopting this tool is on my list of process/tools improvements for my development team in internal apps. There will be a discontinuity in the source control branches when we turn this on and standardize everything in one check-in, but I think the benefits of having a standard way to representing commands without developers having to personally remember to do it the same way will be pretty considerable!
go to post Ben Spead · Oct 18, 2019 Yes - absolutely! But you should discuss with InterSystems to work through the details. But many customers have migrated from DSM to modern versions of the InterSystems stack.
go to post Ben Spead · Oct 18, 2019 David, I suggest you look into using the DeployToFile() and InstallFromFile() methods of the %Studio.Project class. A discussion of the topic can be found here in the docs: https://docs.intersystems.com/irislatest/csp/docbook/DocBook.UI.Page.cls?KEY=ADEPLOY Another option is calling the following on individual classes: $system.OBJ.MakeClassDeployed() But since you are looking at just pushing partial updates, most likely the DeployToFile() with the parameter to strip out the source will be your best bet.
go to post Ben Spead · Oct 17, 2019 David - I completely agree. It's an excellent suggestion and we'll get it put in place.
go to post Ben Spead · Oct 15, 2019 David, Thanks for your feedback! In general, Developer Download always makes available the latest GA version of our two Community Edition products. In this case we wanted to be able to launch by Global Summit and so we went with the Preview since 2019.1.1 kits were not full GA yet. There are ongoing discussions about the pros/cons of making containers available here rather than people just fetching them directly from Docker. We'll let you know the final decision!
go to post Ben Spead · Oct 1, 2019 Excellent enhancements! Much needed and will be widely used I am sure :) Thank you Stefan!
go to post Ben Spead · Sep 30, 2019 @Murray Oldfield - once again, bravo! Thank you for making this information more available to the community!
