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.

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InterSystems IRIS

Add error output to %File.RemoveDirectoryTree()

The documentation for using RemoveDirectoryTree says that there is no output argument for returning a system error code. I would like to see one added, especially since the error output on other functions tends to be a %DynamicArray type which wou...
Robbie Luman 6 months ago in Developer Experience / InterSystems IRIS Future consideration

Filter DTLs in Rule Definitions

When defining a Rule and adding a Send action I would like to see better filtering on the list of Transforms listed in the UI If the rule is Rule Type = HL7 Message Routing Rule it would seem that the only valid transforms to select are those wh...
Stephen Canzano 8 months ago in Developer Experience / InterSystems IRIS Future consideration

Time in Queue of Messages

It's importantent to have an information of messages (Ens.MessageHeader) logging the time of it in Queue. For example: When you call some BO and your message keep in queue fro a little, after it is processed. you have ONLY TimeCreated and TimeProc...
Luis Petkovicz over 2 years ago in Developer Experience / InterSystems IRIS Future consideration

Implement or incorporate a mocking framework to complement %UnitTest class

Interoperability components often have dependencies such as external connections or callouts to external packages/libraries. In order to create UnitTests, we need to mock those components with something like Mockito so we aren't required to write ...
Chi Nguyen-Rettig over 2 years ago in Developer Experience / InterSystems IRIS Future consideration

Add interface binding to FTP adapters

Current implementation of FTP adapters (EnsLib.FTP.InboundAdapter, EnsLib.FTP.OutboundAdapter) lack a property to force binding with a specific TCP interface, similar to EnsLib.TCP.Common.LocalInterface. Being able to select a specific interface s...
Robert Barbiaux over 1 year ago in InterSystems IRIS Future consideration

Add Process Id to the Task Details page and allow stopping a task while running

Currently, the Task Details page within the Task Manager doesn't show the process id of the Task while it is running neither allows the user to stop the task while it is running. Many times I've seen tasks running forever due to bugs, bad queries ...
Pietro Di Leo 6 months ago in Developer Experience / InterSystems IRIS Future consideration

Add a "mentor mode" to Management portal

Introduce an optional "mentor mode" for the Management portal (switched on by default for new installations) that detects common setup mistakes / best practices, and provides a pop-up to draw attention to them. For example, if the user sets %All i...
Iryna Mykhailova 10 months ago in Initial Developer Experience / InterSystems IRIS Future consideration

UI improvements to DTL Editor

I'd like several improvements to the DTL editor I'd like to have a visual clue to know if a property is marked as required, both in the source object and the targer object. If a property is required in the target object I would like to know that I...
Stephen Canzano over 1 year ago in Developer Experience / InterSystems IRIS Future consideration

Universal Global Exchange Utility

1) Description of the idea We have the %GOF/%GIF (IRIS block format) utilities, which are fast but quite limited in functionality: They don't support exporting subglobals. It's not possible to export an entire global mapped across multiple databas...
Alexey Maslov about 1 year ago in InterSystems IRIS Future consideration

Envrionment variable support in System Default Settings

Docker commonly passes settings via environment variables. It could be useful if when resolving settings for production configuration this could also evaluate environment variables instead of deployed static values. Thus the container drives the b...
Alex Woodhead about 3 years ago in InterSystems IRIS Future consideration