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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InterSystems Products

Add Lightweight API to Detect Corrupted Index Names on Large Tables

There is a need for a lightweight API to identify corrupted indexes on very large tables without storing every corrupted row in memory. Current validation approaches can consume excessive memory when there are millions of index errors, leading to ...
Ashok Kumar Thangavel 4 months ago in InterSystems Products Will not implement

See globals size in Management Portal.

In System > Globals it would be helpful to see the globals sizes, and be able to sort them by this new column.
Sylvain Guilbaud over 2 years ago in InterSystems IRIS Will not implement

Implement autosave for DTL and BPL pages

This is a very recurrent complain from our customers, it's very common that they lose all the design implemented for a DTL/BPL after an automatic web page refresh or a session close. That would be great to have an automatic save where you can get ...
Luis Angel Pérez Ramos almost 3 years ago in Developer Experience / InterSystems Products Will not implement

Superset language for ObjectScript

With the coming of dynamic objects I feel that at this point we need something that ressembles TypeScript. So my suggestion is for having a superset language that can be transpiled to either classes or routines, whichever fits the bill. The idea i...
Rubens Silva 8 months ago in Developer Experience / InterSystems IRIS Will not implement

Add a compiler flag to disable accidental code formatting

Add a compiler flag to relax or prevent the code from auto-formatting whenever a source file is imported and thus compiled, the reasoning for that is for preventing irrelevant changes from showing up in the source control such as: argument multi-l...
Rubens Silva 8 months ago in Developer Experience / InterSystems IRIS Will not implement

Allow form JSON Objects with variables without parentesis

Currently ObjectScript needs developers to use parenthesis when embedding variables into JSON, e.g. we set authToken and respUser variables and return it in JSON result of a method : quit {"token":(authToken),"user":(respUser)} But it is more obvi...
Evgeny Shvarov 7 months ago in Developer Experience / InterSystems IRIS Will not implement

Create a keyword in the SELECT statement to synchronize the ECP

InterSystems IRIS implementations that use Enterprise Cache Protocol (ECP), such as distributed cache clusters, can synchronize query results. ECP is a distributed data caching architecture that manages the distribution of data and locks among a h...
Rodolfo Pscheidt Jr 5 months ago in InterSystems IRIS Will not implement

Remember Preferred language selection for Management Portal "forever"

Everytime that the session of the Management Portal is closed the preferred language selected is lost, forcing to the user to change it the next time that log in. Using cookies would fix this problem, keeping the language selection at any time.
Luis Angel Pérez Ramos over 2 years ago in InterSystems IRIS Will not implement

Make IRIS a part of Spring Cloud

Many companies use Spring Cloud today. With the advent of the full cloud era, hospitals inevitably need to span multiple independent but interdependent applications or partners, and the traditional single ESB platform that only gives SOA architect...
王喆 👀 about 3 years ago in InterSystems IRIS Will not implement

Reinstate Studio as a fully supported code editor

Studio is a focused no-nonsense COS/CSP code editor.Although I like VS Code a lot for other programming languages, I find it overkill to just edit IRIS classes and routines. I also like the idea of a dedicated editor: for instance I use PyCharm fo...
Herman Slagman about 3 years ago in InterSystems IRIS Will not implement