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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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 about 14 hours ago in InterSystems IRIS Needs review

Show columns when indexed in the Ensemble Message Viewer Additional criteria

When using the Ensemble/Interoprability Message Viewer and defining Extended Criteria if I select a Body Property I can select any of the columns from the Message Body. When the datacombo shows the list of properties/columns I would like to see an...
Stephen Canzano 6 days ago in InterSystems IRIS Interoperability Needs review

Setting Parameters for Tasks that are OnDemand

It would be nice if when you run a Task to be OnDemand, that you can set Parameters for that Task to be ran as OnDemand, and not have to modify the Task within the Task Scheduler.
Scott Roth 6 days ago in InterSystems IRIS Needs review

Add Ability to Sort Global Masters Activities by Expiration Date

As a relatively new GM user, I still have numerous activities to complete, however, it would be very helpful if I could organize them by their expiration date. That would allow users to not miss any activities that could expire soon.
Juan Mota Sanchez 12 days ago in Global Masters Needs review

How to build a utility class in ObjectScript Tutorial

Build a utility class in ObjectScript. i.e. class has no properties just a series of methods to do generic-ish things
Mindy Caldwell 14 days ago in Tutorials Needs review

Make the debugger skip classes without generated code

There's just no use on having the debugger jump inside classes that don't have generated code (such as %DynamicObject, %Api.Atelier, %RegisteredObject etc), causing it to fail and make the whole debugging procedure a hell. Mind you that while we c...
Rubens Silva 15 days ago in InterSystems IRIS Needs review

Hands On JSON Parsing Tutorial

Time and time I struggle with understanding how to parse JSON into an Object that can be use to extract data. It would be nice to have a hands-on tutorial that help us walk through iterating through each field, subfield, etc..
Scott Roth 16 days ago in Tutorials Needs review

New reward: Dress shirt with intersytems logo

Offer a new reward: a dress shirt with the Intersystems logo in blue or white.
Yuri Marx 18 days ago in Global Masters Needs review

build a utility class in ObjectScript. i.e. class has no properties just a series of methods to do generic-ish things

I'm really looking for a tutorial type article. I'm in the process of a long conversion of our application from a multivalue based approach to an objectscript approach. Currently the application has a directory/file of MVbasic subroutines that are...
Mindy Caldwell 19 days ago in Developer Community Needs review

Hands-On Tutorial for Using Source Control with Git and VS Code

With all the big improvements on client-side editing, I think it would be very beneficial to add a hands-on tutorial or even a Learning Path in the Learning Portal that allows devs to navigate through the different options at the time of developin...
Juan Mota Sanchez 20 days ago in Tutorials Needs review