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 IRIS

Simplify classnames calls in ObjectScript

Currently everyone use ##class(classname).methodname() to call it. e.g. do ##class(Sample).ClassMethod() This is one of the painful moments about ObjectScript for developers. Can we introduce a parallel support of more simplified way, as: #classna...
Evgeny Shvarov almost 4 years ago in Developer Experience / InterSystems IRIS Ideas Contest

IRIS Community with no connections limit

IRIS Community Edition without limit on connections amount instead, limit IRIS by cores and memory, i.e. limit it to 2-4 cores and 4-8GB RAM IRIS Community Edition is very useful in automated testing or some simple demos, but it's useless due to l...
Dmitry Maslennikov almost 3 years ago in InterSystems IRIS Ideas Contest

Refactoring in VsCode

In VsCode (As in old Studio) there is juste one refactoring possibility : extract in method. I think that refactoring functions are important in producing clean code, because refactoring without dedicated function is too long, so not done.
Pierre LaFay over 2 years ago in Developer Experience / InterSystems IRIS Ideas Contest

Set password through environment variable

In a continious integration processes, for some applications, for testing purposes, it's useful to run vanilla IRIS and run integration tests, for Python applications for instance And the best way to do it, is to use services feature in popular CI...
Dmitry Maslennikov over 3 years ago in Developer Experience / InterSystems IRIS Ideas Contest

Bare minimum start of IRIS for docker build

During docker build, it's useless to start full functional IRIS, it would be enough to start just bare minimally, do not start the internal web server, ECP, and so on. Just only staff enough to build a code and make some changes in settings.
Dmitry Maslennikov over 3 years ago in Initial Developer Experience / InterSystems IRIS Ideas Contest

Add Source control for all the IRIS interoperability components

Currently there is no source control available for different components of the Interoperability production. There is a tool git-source-control that helps with some components, e.g. production itself , but business rules editor doesn't have such a ...
Evgeny Shvarov over 3 years ago in Developer Experience / InterSystems IRIS Ideas Contest

Open source Parser for ObjectScript

Open source parser driven by InterSystems, required by many types of projects, which could be implemented then by community. Linters, Syntax Analyzers, Security Scans and so on are require parser for ObjectScript Language Server in VSCode is awful...
Dmitry Maslennikov almost 4 years ago in Developer Experience / InterSystems IRIS Ideas Contest

Private Variables

Provide variables that don't appear in the regular symbol table. Example: Start a server process and provide a Private Key. As long as the process runs, its value is held in memory. We don't want anyone to snoop around the Management Portal or an ...
Herman Slagman about 2 years ago in InterSystems IRIS Ideas Contest

Optional "Green Mode" Configuration Setting for IRIS

Much like how cars often have a "Eco" driving mode, create an optional mode for using IRIS in a greener manner. If a user of IRIS wants to prioritize reducing their carbon footprint over performance, they should be able to do so. It's possible ...
Nelson Tarr almost 3 years ago in InterSystems IRIS Ideas Contest

use Python Class Definition Syntax to create IRIS classes

Now that IRIS support Python, UDL syntax should not be the only way with SQL DDL to define/create classes in IRIS.
Sylvain Guilbaud almost 3 years ago in InterSystems IRIS Ideas Contest