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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InterSystems Products

    Bring IRIS to the JavaScript ORM World

    1️⃣ Description of the Idea Add official support or adapters for popular Node.js ORMs (TypeORM, Prisma, MikroORM, Sequelize) to InterSystems IRIS. Instead of building a new ORM from scratch, this idea focuses on enabling IRIS as a supported databa...
    Dmitry Maslennikov 9 months ago in InterSystems IRIS 1 Done by Community

    Enable Schema Validation for REST APIs Using Swagger Definitions

    Enforce Automatic schema validation for Spec-First REST implementations 1️⃣ Description of the idea Enable automatic schema validation of incoming request bodies in REST APIs defined using Swagger/OpenAPI 2.0 when the request body is declared in ...
    Ashok Kumar T 10 months ago in InterSystems Products 3 Done by Community

    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 0 Ideas Contest

    See globals size in Management Portal.

    In System > Globals it would be helpful to see the globals sizes, and be able to sort them by this new column.
    Sylvain Guilbaud almost 2 years ago in InterSystems IRIS 3 Will not implement

    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 5 Planned

    Move users, roles, resources, user tasks, Mappings (etc) to a seperate Database, other than %SYS, so these items can be mirrored

    There's nothing worse than failing over to find that many of your users are expired or don't exist or that your tasks do not exist. While mirroring is tried and true, the non-mirrorable items, as previously listed, are needed for true redundancy.
    Sean O'Connor over 3 years ago in InterSystems IRIS 2 In Progress

    Automatically Expose Interactive API Documentation

    Enable interactive API documentation automatically for web applications. 1️⃣ Description of the idea Automatically enable a default API documentation endpoint—such as /docs or /apidocs—when a new %CSP.REST-based dispatch class is created. This end...
    Ashok Kumar T 10 months ago in Initial Developer Experience / InterSystems Products 5 Community Opportunity

    Streaming JSON Parsing Support

    1️⃣ Description of the idea Introduce new methods that allow streaming JSON parsing rather than reading the entire JSON into memory first. This approach would process JSON objects or arrays incrementally, converting them to DAO (Data Access Object...
    Ashok Kumar T 10 months ago in InterSystems Products 0 Future consideration

    Include an option in HealthShare (UCR) to support natively a vectorized database of patients' clinical data, enabling retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) for communication with market-available large language models (LLMs).

    This feature would provide substantial added value to the product, particularly in the AI-driven era. Additionally, the vector search capability will support a wide variety of other use cases.
    Claudio Devecchi over 1 year ago in InterSystems HealthShare 0 Community Opportunity

    Add quick HL7 syntax Validator Option

    No description provided
    Anthony Master about 2 months ago in Developer Experience / InterSystems IRIS for Health 0 Needs review