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

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 about 14 hours ago in InterSystems IRIS Needs review

Use ISOS as acronym for InterSystems ObjectScript

The traditional acronym, COS (=Caché ObjectScript) is not really up-to-dateand appears to be rather unwelcome in an official context ISOS for InterSystems ObjectScript seems to be more appropriate
Robert Cemper 10 months ago in InterSystems IRIS Community Opportunity

Light version InterSystems IRIS

Develop a light version for InterSystems IRIS. It is a fact that IRIS, today, includes several improvements and new functionalities, however, like "all" software evolution, it also requires heavier hardware resources. Not all applications need all...
Andre Larsen Barbosa almost 3 years ago in Initial Developer Experience / InterSystems IRIS Done by Community

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 about 2 months ago in InterSystems IRIS Community Opportunity

Provide a single page view of free space in IRIS DBs

Actually, the information on free space in IRIS DBs requires many clicksand manual drilldown for each DB. +
Robert Cemper 10 months ago in InterSystems IRIS Done by Community

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 6 months ago in Documentation / Generative AI / Initial Developer Experience / InterSystems IRIS Needs review

Publish the InterSystems IRIS Native SDK for Node.js on npm

People building Node.js apps commonly use npm as the place they get packages they depend on. Not being able to get the files needed for InterSystems IRIS Native API for Node.js from there adds friction which probably results in some lost opportuni...
John Murray over 3 years ago in InterSystems IRIS Implemented

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 about 1 year ago in InterSystems IRIS Planned

Option to CompileAllNamespaces() after failover to new version

When manually failing over from older version of IRIS to Newer version of IRIS by forcing a manual failover, it does not give enough time to run a CompileAllNamespaces() on the new version of IRIS before transactions start to process after failove...
Scott Roth 3 months ago in InterSystems IRIS Needs review

Add pool size in production configuration page

Pool size used to be displayed in Production Configuration page in Management Portal in old version of Ensemble, unfortunately this (IMHO very important) information is now missing. To get the pool size you need to click in each and every host in ...
Enrico Parisi over 1 year ago in Developer Experience / InterSystems IRIS Implemented