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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    Publish the InterSystems IRIS Native SDK for Node.js on npm

    People building Node.js apps commonly use npm as the place they get packages they depend on. Not being able to get the files needed for InterSystems IRIS Native API for Node.js from there adds friction which probably results in some lost opportuni...
    John Murray over 3 years ago in InterSystems IRIS 3 Implemented

    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 2 Implemented

    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 5 Implemented

    Implement samples of $system.external interface (aka "InterSystems External Servers")

    The new $system.external interface (aka "InterSystems External Servers") is used to call/integrate with external language code/libraries, it replace the old gateways (for example Java gateway) that required the import of proxy objects. For the old...
    Enrico Parisi over 2 years ago in InterSystems IRIS 1 Implemented

    Have nicknames for community users

    Users may prefer to have their nicknames displayed in posts in Developer Community. In Japan's community team, we are discussing some users may not like to be identified by their real names so that they are reluctant to post their questions and ar...
    Minoru Horita almost 3 years ago in Developer Community 2 Implemented

    Add filtering by type of post in DC search

    I'd like to be able to see only articles and maybe questions when I'm searching and exclude announcements. So I need some kind of filter to let me choose the type of posts I'd like to search. It's done for Top posts and Latest posts but not for All.
    Iryna Mykhailova about 1 year ago in Developer Community 0 Implemented

    Developer Community AI - Issue

    While there is a limitation of how many questions can be asked of the Developer Community AI daily, I am finding that it is not responding correctly. I logged out of the Developer Community, then signed back in, tried to ask a question since I hav...
    Scott Roth 3 months ago in Bug reports / Developer Community 1 Implemented

    clear the chat history in our Developer Community AI assistant.

    In 2025, a deletion feature for a programming AI is a technical and legal necessity rather than a luxury. Forcing permanent storage of proprietary code creates an unacceptable intellectual property risk, as even inadvertent leaks of API keys or se...
    Stella Ticker 3 months ago in Developer Community 1 Implemented

    Phonetic search in the community

    Phonetic search has been widely used in various search tools, and if we look at the number of members we have in the community of the most diverse nationalities, it is likely that not all of them are fluent in English, and consequently cannot writ...
    Andre Larsen Barbosa about 1 year ago in Developer Community 0 Implemented

    Developer Community AI Chatbot

    To ask questions and get answers based on the Community posts & documentation.
    Anastasia Dyubaylo about 2 years ago in Developer Community 2 Implemented