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.

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InterSystems Products

    AI Digital Twin & Safe Replay Studio: One‑click production clone, anonymized traffic replay, and “what‑if” simulation

    Problem Changes to productions (new DTLs, rules, adapters, timeouts, upgrades) are risky because test environments rarely mirror real traffic, partner quirks, or peak volumes. Reproducing an incident or validating a partner change requires man...
    Tirthankar Bachhar 5 months ago in Developer Experience / Generative AI / InterSystems IRIS 0 Needs review

    AI Log Analytics & Predictive Anomaly Detection for Interoperability

    Problem Operational issues (bad data, unusual traffic spikes, rising error rates) are discovered too late, after queues back up or downstream systems fail. Current Event Log, Message Viewer, and Visual Trace are excellent for investigation, bu...
    Tirthankar Bachhar 5 months ago in Developer Experience / Generative AI / InterSystems IRIS 0 Needs review

    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 5 months ago in Initial Developer Experience / InterSystems IRIS 0 Needs review

    Integrate InterSystems IRIS with SQLancer for Automated SQL Testing and Validation

    SQLancer is a tool to automatically test Database Management Systems (DBMSs) in order to find bugs in their implementation. That is, it finds bugs in the code of the DBMS implementation, rather than in queries written by the user. SQLancer has fou...
    Dmitry Maslennikov 9 months ago in Developer Experience / InterSystems IRIS 1 Done by Community

    Settings should be a part of Mirroring

    Noticed that if some of the settings at the %SYS level are updated on the Primary instance of the mirror they are not being copied down to the rest of the Mirror members. If you do not notice this, then settings could get out of sync between the m...
    Scott Roth almost 3 years ago in InterSystems IRIS 4 Planned

    IRIS Native JSON Schema Validator

    Native JSON schema validator classes in IRIS 1️⃣ Description of the idea Introduce native JSON Schema validator classes in IRIS that allow developers to validate JSON data against a predefined JSON Schema. This would enable built-in support for st...
    Ashok Kumar T 10 months ago in Developer Experience / InterSystems Products 2 Done by Community

    Encoding in SQL functions

    Introduce SQL functions like TO_BASE64(), FROM_BASE64(), and UUID() to enable data encoding, decoding, and unique identifier generation. 1️⃣ Description of the idea Add built-in SQL functions to the InterSystems SQL engine for common utility tasks...
    Ashok Kumar T 10 months ago in InterSystems Products 0 Future consideration

    Enhance JSON Adaptor with Case-Insensitive Field Mapping

    The current JSON adaptor implementation, the property name or %JSONFIELDNAME is treated as a constant and case-sensitive when importing JSON into an object. This means the JSON key must match exactly or match with the xData Mapping. To improve fl...
    Ashok Kumar T 10 months ago in InterSystems Products 1 Will not implement

    Do not include table statistics when exporting Production for deployment

    Preface To export a production or productions components for deployment using Interoperability > Manage > Deploy Changes > Deploy, the export of persistent classes that are part of a deployment (typically message classes, but there can be...
    Enrico Parisi 10 months ago in InterSystems Products 0 Future consideration

    Reinstate Studio as a fully supported code editor

    Studio is a focused no-nonsense COS/CSP code editor.Although I like VS Code a lot for other programming languages, I find it overkill to just edit IRIS classes and routines. I also like the idea of a dedicated editor: for instance I use PyCharm fo...
    Herman Slagman over 2 years ago in InterSystems IRIS 2 Will not implement