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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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

Support for coloured banner per environment

We currently update the ZEN_Component__core.js to colour the banner for each of our environments, such as green for DEV, orange for TEST and red for LIVE. This gives us a clear indication of which environment we are working in without having to re...
Lewis Houlden 6 days ago in InterSystems Products Needs review

Additional filter for purging messages

It should be possible to exclude messages with an error status from being deleted when running the purge task or methods like Purge() in Ens.Util.MessagePurge, so they can be resend. A customer reports that sometimes these failed messages are purg...
Stephan Mohr 20 days ago in InterSystems IRIS Interoperability Needs review

Enable wildcards/REGEX for item names in ArchiveItems setting MsgBankOperation Health Connect

Problem: We handle a large production in Health Connect, which is configured to send a subset of HL7 messages to a messagebank. We need to exclude many of the business hosts from archiving anything. Currently, this has to be done for each host ind...
Stefanie Steinert 19 days ago in InterSystems HealthShare Needs review

Make dialog windows in IDS draggable

Allow all dialog windows in IDS to be dragged around to see what's behind them.
Iryna Mykhailova 12 days ago in InterSystems Data Studio 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

Include Earned Certifications Under the User's Profile in the Developer Community

This will allow community members to show off their skills more prominently, promote certifications in the developer community, and provides a way for users asking questions to tell the competency level of the responders. I have attached files tha...
Ali Nasser 3 months ago in Developer Community Already exists

Dark Mode for Management Portal

1️⃣ Description of the idea A dark/light mode toggle button in the Management Portal header that swaps the entire SMP between those themes. 2️⃣ Who is the target audience? Developers and admins using our SMP day to day who love dark mode and a...
Vishal Pallerla about 1 year ago in Initial Developer Experience / InterSystems Products Planned

PyProd Dev Mode: Live Reload, Local Testing, and Debugging for Production Components

Problem Today, developing PyProd components requires repeatedly loading Python code into IRIS before testing changes. This slows down iteration and makes debugging more difficult than standard Python development workflows. PyProd is intended to fe...
Subhamay Paul 25 days ago in PyProd Needs review

PyProd Assistant for Existing IRIS Productions

Summary Add a Production Assistant to PyProd that inspects an existing IRIS interoperability production and generates an editable PyProd definition using the PyProd APIs. The generated Python code would preserve the production’s components, config...
Vishal Pallerla 11 days ago in PyProd Needs review