InterSystems Ideas

Have an idea, suggestion, or something that doesn’t work as expected in InterSystems products or services? Share it here on the InterSystems Ideas Portal.

The Ideas Portal is where community members can propose improvements, report bugs, and help influence the product roadmap across InterSystems products and the overall developer experience. 22% of submitted ideas are implemented by InterSystems or members of the Developer Community.

💡 Ideas and bugs are both welcome, no matter how big or small. You can submit feature requests, usability improvements, workflow suggestions, and bug reports. Whether you’re an experienced expert or just getting started, your fresh perspective is valuable.

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Add a Built-In Change History / Version Log for Data Transformations (DTL)

Right now, the DTL editor doesn't offer a way to see the change history of a Data Transformation directly within the tool. When working on complex DTLs that are edited by multiple developers over time, it would be very useful to see who changed wh...
Ricard Ferrando Paredes 7 days ago in InterSystems IRIS Needs review

Additional filter for purging messages

It should be possible to exclude messages with an error status from being deleted when running the purge task or methods like Purge() in Ens.Util.MessagePurge, so they can be resend. A customer reports that sometimes these failed messages are purg...
Stephan Mohr about 1 month ago in InterSystems IRIS Interoperability Needs review

Support for coloured banner per environment

We currently update the ZEN_Component__core.js to colour the banner for each of our environments, such as green for DEV, orange for TEST and red for LIVE. This gives us a clear indication of which environment we are working in without having to re...
Lewis Houlden 27 days ago in InterSystems Products Planned

EnsLib.HL7.Operation.FileOperation - Completing unsuccessful messages

We have seen many times where EnsLib.HL7.Operation.FileOperation throws ERROR #5005: Cannot open file, but then marks the messages as complete even though they never written out to the file. Use case from yesterday the directory that EnsLib.HL7.Op...
Scott Roth 3 days ago in InterSystems IRIS Interoperability Needs review

Enable wildcards/REGEX for item names in ArchiveItems setting MsgBankOperation Health Connect

Problem: We handle a large production in Health Connect, which is configured to send a subset of HL7 messages to a messagebank. We need to exclude many of the business hosts from archiving anything. Currently, this has to be done for each host ind...
Stefanie Steinert about 1 month ago in InterSystems HealthShare Future consideration

Add a follow-up link type for DC articles: OL content

Currently we can link to documentation articles as a follow-up, or to other articles. It would be great to have a way to share related online learning resources that help people explore a topic further.
Kristina Lauer 6 days ago in Developer Community Needs review

Allow editing descriptions and such from UI in PyProd

Now, it's impossible to edit the PyProd production setup from the UI. Even the simple stuff like the description. It would be better to be able to do it.
Iryna Mykhailova 17 days ago in PyProd Needs review

Add Production and Component Scaffolding to the PyProd CLI

Summary Extend the existing PyProd command line tool with syntax-aware commands that generate valid production skeletons, components, etc.. Problem To create a new PyProd production, developers need to coordinate several framework conventions befo...
Vishal Pallerla 15 days ago in PyProd Needs review

Provide Unix ‘expect’ like functionality to automate the running of iris routines

Often IRIS routines require interactive responses to questions. My idea is to be able to run IRIS routines in the background and supply repsonses from a Python routine. This is common functionality in the Linux world. You can for instance run a un...
Phillip Wu 21 days ago in InterSystems IRIS Needs review

Create a template for PyProd production

Create an OpenExchange template for PyProd production that has stubs for all components.
Iryna Mykhailova 16 days ago in Open Exchange / PyProd Needs review