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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

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

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 over 1 year ago in InterSystems IRIS 0 Future consideration

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 about 1 year 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

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

Use of package management systems

There is no way at the moment to install any driver to IRIS for any suppoorted programming language. Java drivers not available on Maven (even https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/com.intersystems/intersystems-jdbc, just fake empty files) Python dri...
Dmitry Maslennikov almost 2 years ago in InterSystems IRIS 1 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

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 1 year ago in InterSystems IRIS 0 Future consideration