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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    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 3 months ago in Initial Developer Experience / InterSystems IRIS 0 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 11 months ago in InterSystems IRIS 0 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 almost 2 years ago in Developer Experience / InterSystems IRIS 1 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 almost 2 years ago in Developer Experience / InterSystems IRIS 0 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 7 months ago in InterSystems IRIS 3 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 10 months ago in Developer Experience / InterSystems IRIS 1 Future consideration

    Add shorthand options like "N" & "T-2" to represent date/timestamps in Message Viewer Search fields.

    When searching over messages using message viewer, instead of having to manually enter the exact date/time of the start & end time, I would like to be able to use a shorthand that would theoretically update as I reuse the search. For example: ...
    Victoria Castillo over 1 year ago in Developer Experience / InterSystems IRIS 0 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 over 2 years ago in InterSystems IRIS 5 Future consideration

    Make interoperability's visual trace to easy to check, when process was running parallel.

    I want to make interoperability's visual trace to easy to check, when process was running parallel. As an example, consider calling bp01 with a Pool Size of 3 from bp00 for 3 processes at the same time. The bp01 column shows three processes jumble...
    Yuji Ohata over 2 years ago in Developer Experience / InterSystems IRIS 3 Future consideration

    Docker-friendly naming of IRIS Containers in Repository

    It would be very helpful if the naming of the Community Edition IRIS containers in the Container Repository followed and adhered to a Docker-friendly convention. There are two parts to this: 1) Include a "latest version" Container. There used to b...
    Rob Tweed about 1 year ago in Developer Experience / InterSystems IRIS 5 Future consideration