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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    Create a Docker image with material for InterSystems IRIS onboarding

    Getting started with InterSystems IRIS is not so easy. There are so many possibilities and for a new dev it could be confusing,and the existing documentation is sparse and not exhaustive.Moreover, ObjectScript has changed a lot over the years, so ...
    Pietro Di Leo 3 months ago in Initial Developer Experience / InterSystems IRIS 0 In Progress

    AI Interface Builder (AskISC): Generate full Productions from specs or Excel

    Problem Implementing new interfaces still takes many hours: picking the right adapters, scaffolding Business Service/Process/Operation classes, authoring Rule Sets, and writing DTLs. Specs often live in Excel, emails, or PDFs and must be translate...
    Tirthankar Bachhar 3 months ago in Initial Developer Experience / InterSystems IRIS 0 Needs review

    Bring back the wizards

    As there are no wizards in VSCode, it can be daunting for new programmers to write code correctly, for example, relationships. So the idea is to add to the extension some functionality to give commented-out examples of how to describe classes corr...
    Iryna Mykhailova 4 months ago in Initial Developer Experience / InterSystems IRIS 2 Already exists

    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 4 months ago in Initial Developer Experience / InterSystems IRIS 0 Future consideration

    "Run in Postman" Button for IRIS for Health FHIR REST APIs

    New healthcare devs face a barrier when testing out FHIR related stuff and the gap between reading documentation and actually testing an API call is too wide. A "Run in Postman" button solves this with pre-built FHIR examples as collections. So, N...
    Vishal Pallerla 4 months ago in Initial Developer Experience / InterSystems FHIR Server 0 Future consideration

    Interactive LLM-Powered Assistant

    The system shall provide an integrated LLM-powered assistant trained on InterSystems documentation, developer guides, and internal best practices. This assistant will allow users to ask questions in natural language, browse relevant knowledge, and...
    Hisham Yoosuf 4 months ago in Developer Community / Initial Developer Experience 0 In Progress

    Ready-to-Use VM for Learning and Experimentation

    A pre-configured virtual machine designed for onboarding new developers into our InterSystems ecosystem. This VM can include IRIS for Health, InterSystems Interoperability configurations, HMF/HL7 messaging services, TrakCare MEUI, Logi Report, Per...
    Hisham Yoosuf 4 months ago in Initial Developer Experience 2 In Progress

    Add an "Add Server to VS Code" Option to System Tray Icon

    There could be an option from the system tray icon to add a server to Visual Studio Code. When clicked, it could add the selected server to the InterSystems Server Manager extension of Code by editing the "intersystems.servers" node of settings.js...
    David Hockenbroch 4 months ago in Initial Developer Experience / InterSystems Products 0 Future consideration

    Enhanced User Interface in InterSystems WRC

    Experience a modernized and more intuitive user interface in InterSystems WRC, designed to enhance usability and efficiency. The upgrade brings cleaner, improved navigation and a responsive design tailored for better user workflows.
    Ashok Kumar 8 months ago in Initial Developer Experience / Other 0 Needs review

    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 8 months ago in Initial Developer Experience / InterSystems Products 3 Future consideration