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.

🛠️ About bugs and fixes. If you have access to InterSystems WRC, please submit bugs there for immediate action. Bug reports submitted through the Ideas Portal are reviewed and tracked, but do not guarantee immediate resolution.

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    Support UUID v7 as IdKey

    RFC 9562 defines UUID v7, as a timestamp based universally unique identifier (https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9562.html#name-uuid-version-7). Supporting this type of UUID as the IdKey of persistent classes may have multiple advantages: The ID ...
    Attila Toth 3 months ago in Developer Experience / InterSystems IRIS 1 Will not implement

    Adding Ctrl+V functionality to iris terminals

    Essentially this idea boosts the current functionality of pasting into the IRIS terminal. Over the course of the year, this will save developers in total countless hours of having to right click and paste instead of keyboard macros Any users of ...
    John Spead 7 months ago in InterSystems IRIS 1 Will not implement

    Break down IRIS in microservices

    The objective is to decompose the IRIS monolith into independently scalable microservices within a cloud-native architecture. For instance, the OAuth2 server could be scaled independently without deploying additional full IRIS instances. These mic...
    Dorian Tetu 7 months ago in InterSystems IRIS 1 Will not implement

    Add :CSP Shell to Line Recall

    Include $SYSTEM.CSP.Shell() as :CSP, similar to how :sql opens the SQL shell and :py opens the Python shell.
    Ashok Kumar T 8 months ago in InterSystems Products 0 Will not implement

    Compression in SQL Functions

    Introduce SQL functions such as COMPRESS() and UNCOMPRESS() to facilitate data compression and decompression. 1️⃣ Description of the idea Introduce native SQL functions COMPRESS(data, algorithm) and UNCOMPRESS(data) to perform data compression a...
    Ashok Kumar T 8 months ago in InterSystems Products 1 Will not implement

    Enhance JSON Adaptor with Case-Insensitive Field Mapping

    The current JSON adaptor implementation, the property name or %JSONFIELDNAME is treated as a constant and case-sensitive when importing JSON into an object. This means the JSON key must match exactly or match with the xData Mapping. To improve fl...
    Ashok Kumar T 8 months ago in InterSystems Products 1 Will not implement

    Macros in Classes

    Currently, there are two possibilities to use macros in a class 1) with the "Include" keyword at the beginning of a class definition 2) in EACH (class)metod definition one or more macros can be defined with the "define", "def1arg", etc. keywords...
    Julius Kavay 9 months ago in InterSystems Products 2 Will not implement

    Add polling for changes to the VSCode extension(s)

    Currently, if you edit code client-side in VSCode the local copy of any routines/classes remain static.If someone else makes a change, via Studio or another VSCode session etc..., then that change doesn't update my local client copy or flag that a...
    David Underhill about 1 year ago in InterSystems IRIS 1 Will not implement

    Add EncounterNumber Index to HSAA.Encounter

    Adding an index on EncounterNumber in HSAA.Encounter will significantly enhance query performance by reducing full table scans, optimizing joins, and accelerating data retrieval for reporting and analytics. Many reports and queries rely on filteri...
    Stella Ticker about 1 year ago in InterSystems HealthShare 0 Will not implement

    Provide list for export

    We utilise the Export feature to export classes from a production ready for a deployment. We already have a list of classes to deploy from our source control history. It would be handy if we could list out the classes/production items/ LUTs etc., ...
    Lewis Houlden about 1 year ago in InterSystems IRIS for Health 0 Will not implement