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.

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InterSystems Products

Add interface binding to FTP adapters

Current implementation of FTP adapters (EnsLib.FTP.InboundAdapter, EnsLib.FTP.OutboundAdapter) lack a property to force binding with a specific TCP interface, similar to EnsLib.TCP.Common.LocalInterface. Being able to select a specific interface s...
Robert Barbiaux over 1 year ago in InterSystems IRIS Future consideration

implement digital signature for JSON / serialize json to canonicalized form per RFC 8785

when exchaning patient documents over information networks, it is demanded to sign these documents digtally. whilst we support cryptogprahy for XML documents, we do not have similar functionality available for serialized json documents.
Daniel Kutac 9 months ago in Developer Experience / InterSystems IRIS for Health Future consideration

allow easier consumption of structured Non-CDA documents

In some countries outside US, other than HL7 CDA standards are used to exchnage structured documents. Recently when using XDS Provide and Register Document Set transaction is used, it is hardcoded to consume only content of HL7 CDA documents. Anyt...
Daniel Kutac about 2 years ago in InterSystems HealthShare Future consideration

Add shorthand options like "N" & "T-2" to represent date/timestamps in Message Viewer Search fields.

When searching over messages using message viewer, instead of having to manually enter the exact date/time of the start & end time, I would like to be able to use a shorthand that would theoretically update as I reuse the search. For example: ...
Victoria Castillo about 2 years ago in Developer Experience / InterSystems IRIS Future consideration

Make interoperability's visual trace to easy to check, when process was running parallel.

I want to make interoperability's visual trace to easy to check, when process was running parallel. As an example, consider calling bp01 with a Pool Size of 3 from bp00 for 3 processes at the same time. The bp01 column shows three processes jumble...
Yuji Ohata about 3 years ago in Developer Experience / InterSystems IRIS Future consideration

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 Thangavel about 1 year ago in InterSystems Products Future consideration

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 about 1 year ago in InterSystems Products Future consideration

Binding IP Address to SOAP Operations

If you are running a mirrored environment and using a VIP, sometimes the VIP has an assigned NAT. Specifying "Local Interface" or binding the request to a specified value is helpful for setting up a Firewall rule to allow the connection to happen.
Scott Roth about 1 year ago in InterSystems Products Future consideration

UI improvements to DTL Editor

I'd like several improvements to the DTL editor I'd like to have a visual clue to know if a property is marked as required, both in the source object and the targer object. If a property is required in the target object I would like to know that I...
Stephen Canzano over 1 year ago in Developer Experience / InterSystems IRIS Future consideration

Native JSON Datatype exclusively for JSON

Create a built-in native JSON datatype like "%Library.String" and implement the SQL JSON_ functions natively. Store, retrieve, search, validate by schema and update the before save and save JSON values instead of store into %String - we can't stor...
Ashok Kumar Thangavel over 1 year ago in InterSystems Products Future consideration