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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InterSystems IRIS

Provide Unix ‘expect’ like functionality to automate the running of iris routines

Often IRIS routines require interactive responses to questions. My idea is to be able to run IRIS routines in the background and supply repsonses from a Python routine. This is common functionality in the Linux world. You can for instance run a un...
Phillip Wu about 10 hours ago in InterSystems IRIS Needs review

Out-of-the-box Enterprise Service Bus solution on IRIS Data Platform

It is no secret that integration is required for any complex IT solution involving many separate applications. IRIS Data Platform already has everything necessary: a lot of connectors, an API server, a database, and an unachievable-by-others level...
Andrew Sklyarov 18 days ago in Initial Developer Experience / InterSystems IRIS Needs review

DTL Editor: Undo Action Collapses All Expanded Source/Target Field Trees

When working on a Data Transformation (DTL) with a complex HL7 message structure, I usually need to expand several levels of the source and target field trees (repeating groups, segments, components) to build and review my mappings comfortably. Th...
Ricard Ferrando Paredes 25 days ago in InterSystems IRIS Needs review

Add a warning when a Business Operation has unlimited retries (FailureTimeout = -1)

Add a built-in safeguard/warning when a Business Operation is configured with FailureTimeout = -1 (unlimited retries), since this can cause unbounded growth of the system error log (^ERRORS) and fill up the namespace disk space. A configurable aut...
Ricard Ferrando Paredes 26 days ago in InterSystems IRIS Needs review

Add an optional condition expression attribute to all Business Process activities so they execute only when the condition evaluates to true, minimizing the need for wrapping <if> blocks.

Currently, in Business Processes , if a developer wants to execute a single activity-such as an <assign>, <call>, or <transform>-conditionally, they must explicitly wrap that activity inside an <if> block or manage complex ...
Roman Faustov 2 months ago in InterSystems IRIS Needs review

Option to show older message.log in IRIS SMP

Sometimes, we need to see the previous (or older) message.log with name like: messages.old_20260412_1. this is impossible in SMP, we need to RDP the server to see this file. This is especially important when there if a force that generates a lot o...
Yaron Munz 3 months ago in InterSystems IRIS Community Opportunity

Specific security features in IRIS for Windows.

I am writing to express our interest in obtaining information regarding potential enhancements to the IRIS for Windows product. Specifically, we are interested in the following features: 1. Password Uniqueness: Does the current version of the soft...
Nursultan Seitkali 3 months ago in InterSystems IRIS Needs review

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 3 months ago in InterSystems IRIS Needs review

Example of PyProd

I need an example of using PyProd to work with productions: create a CSV inbound adapter figure out the schema save all of it to the db Here's an article about it: https://community.intersystems.com/post/pyprod-pure-python-iris-interoperab...
Iryna Mykhailova 4 months ago in InterSystems IRIS Done by Community

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 4 months ago in InterSystems IRIS Will not implement