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.

Start by sharing what could be better - the community and our teams will help take it from there.

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InterSystems Products

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 about 2 months ago in InterSystems Products Planned

Support for AI Spec-Driven Development (SDD)

Offer support for building an AI agent to enable Spec-Driven Development (SDD) for InterSystems IRIS applications. The spec can be created using JSON or generated using a terminal wizard. Spec-Driven Development (SDD) is a software engineering met...
Yuri Marx 5 months ago in InterSystems IRIS Planned

Create standardized llms.txt documentation for InterSystems products to improve LLM code generation quality for ObjectScript, Caché, and IRIS development

ObjectScript and InterSystems technologies are underrepresented in LLM training data, leading to poor code generation, hallucinations, and incorrect syntax suggestions. A standardized llms.txt file would provide LLMs with authoritative, structured...
Jan Miesbauer 8 months ago in Documentation / Generative AI / Initial Developer Experience / InterSystems IRIS Planned

SQL export data option to save locally

When using the export wizard the sql data exported can only be saved to the server. Saving locally or the option to do so like the other export options would save time and effort to then log into the server and copy that data locally for use i.e. ...
Mark OReilly 12 months ago in Developer Experience / InterSystems HealthShare Planned

Message Viewer - Search by PatientID shortcut

Most of the time, when using the Message Viewer in Health Connect, I need to search by PatientID for fault finding or analytical purposes. It would be handy if there was a field already on the Message Viewer page to search by PatientID, instead of...
Lewis Houlden 12 months ago in Developer Experience / InterSystems IRIS for Health Planned

Dark Mode for Management Portal

1️⃣ Description of the idea A dark/light mode toggle button in the Management Portal header that swaps the entire SMP between those themes. 2️⃣ Who is the target audience? Developers and admins using our SMP day to day who love dark mode and a...
Vishal Pallerla over 1 year ago in Initial Developer Experience / InterSystems Products Planned

Fix bugged %JSONIGNORENULL parameter implementation

The %JSONIGNORENULL parameter was working as documented up to version 2020, after that version it does not work anymore. The idea is to fix it as per documentation or, in case there are concerns in existing code that may rely on bugged implemen...
Enrico Parisi over 1 year ago in InterSystems IRIS Planned

Extending an open source LLM to support efficient code generation in intersystems technology

Description of the idea Currently, source code generating LLMs generate ObjectScript/BPL/DTL/PEX/SQL/MDX/CSP/XML for Productions/BI and Embedded Python code in a limited and/or inaccurate manner. InterSystems could specialize an already trained op...
Yuri Marx over 1 year ago in Developer Experience / InterSystems IRIS Planned

Data Lookup View to see when last time a table was updated

Within the Management Portal, you can explore classes, routines, and global and see when the last time a file had been touched. It would be nice if we could see this for Data Lookup (LUT) tables as well. Sometimes we start a project and testing go...
Scott Roth over 1 year ago in Developer Experience / InterSystems HealthShare Planned

API to display patches applied

It is almost impossible to find whether and what patch(es) were applied to a given instance. When working with customer systems, this is critical to know as patches may have big impact on outcomes.
Daniel Kutac over 1 year ago in Developer Experience / InterSystems Products Planned