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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 1 month ago in InterSystems IRIS 6 Future consideration

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 4 months ago in InterSystems IRIS 3 Future consideration

SQL Return ID

Add functionality to SQL to use RETURN on insert statements. To return the value of whichever field is specified after the insert. Can be useful when using SQL to insert records and you need the ID immediately without having to select it.
Stefan Cronje 6 months ago in InterSystems IRIS 4 Future consideration

IPM store on Management Portal

From a new screen in the IRIS Management Portal, list all IPM projects and allows to install them from it
Yuri Marx 6 months ago in InterSystems IRIS 0 Future consideration

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 8 months ago in InterSystems IRIS 0 Future consideration

Why use storage for an index that has never been used?

If an index has never been used (or not for a long time), is it really necessary to use hard drive storage for the index? After a sufficiently long time has passed, it seems like it would be possible to purge storage of index data. The index would...
Nelson Tarr 9 months ago in InterSystems IRIS 5 Future consideration

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 9 months ago in InterSystems IRIS 0 Future consideration

Include bar code/QR code recognition as a standard function

Zen reports, InterSystem Reports, and IRIS all have ways to generate bar codes and/or QR codes and put them on documents, but there is nothing to read them. Reading them relies on 3rd part packages and sometimes specialized hardware, depending on ...
David Hockenbroch 9 months ago in InterSystems IRIS 0 Future consideration

Import classes with ES6 syntax

Being able to import classes into another class for example using ES6 syntax, this way you could reduce the use of ##class(Sample). throughout the document when it is needed repeatedly in more than one place. A possible example would be to be a...
Joan Pérez 9 months ago in InterSystems IRIS 0 Future consideration

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 10 months ago in InterSystems IRIS 4 Future consideration