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.

Start by sharing what could be better - the community and our teams will help take it from there.

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Developer Experience

Modernize terminal

Add command and variable/global name completion in the terminal.
Fabian Haupt over 3 years ago in Developer Experience / InterSystems IRIS Community Opportunity

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 3 years ago in Developer Experience / InterSystems IRIS Ideas Contest

Prettier plugin for ObjectScript

Prettier is an opinionated code formatting CLI. It would be great if it supported ObjectScript so teams could enforce consistent code styles on an entire codebase using git.
Brett Saviano 6 months ago in Developer Experience / Initial Developer Experience Community Opportunity

BPL, DTL, Business Rule Editor in VSCode

Today is painfull when we use BPL, DTL and Business Rule in projects that the IDE is VSCode.
Cristiano Silva over 3 years ago in Developer Experience / InterSystems IRIS Implemented

Add a debugger for Embedded Python in Visual Studio Code

Recently, Embedded Python was introduced as a programming language alongside ObjectScript. At the same time, the InterSystems Studio IDE has been deprecated for the newer and multilanguage Visual Studio Code (VSC), which is also equipped with a de...
Pietro Di Leo almost 2 years ago in Developer Experience / InterSystems IRIS Planned

Implement autosave for DTL and BPL pages

This is a very recurrent complain from our customers, it's very common that they lose all the design implemented for a DTL/BPL after an automatic web page refresh or a session close. That would be great to have an automatic save where you can get ...
Luis Angel Pérez Ramos over 2 years ago in Developer Experience / InterSystems Products Planned

Add pool size in production configuration page

Pool size used to be displayed in Production Configuration page in Management Portal in old version of Ensemble, unfortunately this (IMHO very important) information is now missing. To get the pool size you need to click in each and every host in ...
Enrico Parisi about 1 year ago in Developer Experience / InterSystems IRIS Implemented

Visual trace contents in JSON format

The message contents in the interoperability productions are visualized as default XML view. JSON is also a vital part of the works. So, Add JSON as an additional built in format in message viewer. If it's implemented in IRIS application It will b...
Ashok Kumar Thangavel over 2 years ago in Developer Experience / InterSystems Products Ideas Contest

IRIS and ZPM(Open Exchange) integration

Is it possible to integrate IRIS admin panel and OpenExchange, so people could see and install the apps just from there? Like you can install plugins in other products.
Elena Evsikova over 3 years ago in Developer Experience / InterSystems IRIS Community Opportunity

Add support for Markdown in class documentation

Allow for Markdown to be used in class documentation for easier formatting. This includes the Class Reference Page that should support it, as well as the documentation preview in VS Code.
Stefan Cronje about 2 years ago in Developer Experience / InterSystems Products Community Opportunity