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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    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 7 months ago in InterSystems Products 0 Future consideration

    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 11 months ago in InterSystems IRIS 0 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 7 months ago in InterSystems Products 0 Future consideration

    Add link to DTL Editor For Subtransforms

    A fairly recent change was introduced where selecting a DTL from within the Rule Editor presented the user with a button to open the Data Transformation Builder Editor (DTL Editor) which took the user straight to the DTL. However, if you open a DT...
    Julian Matthews over 1 year ago in Developer Experience / InterSystems Products 0 Future consideration

    Time in Queue of Messages

    It's importantent to have an information of messages (Ens.MessageHeader) logging the time of it in Queue. For example: When you call some BO and your message keep in queue fro a little, after it is processed. you have ONLY TimeCreated and TimeProc...
    Luis Petkovicz almost 2 years ago in Developer Experience / InterSystems IRIS 1 Future consideration

    Implement or incorporate a mocking framework to complement %UnitTest class

    Interoperability components often have dependencies such as external connections or callouts to external packages/libraries. In order to create UnitTests, we need to mock those components with something like Mockito so we aren't required to write ...
    Chi Nguyen-Rettig almost 2 years ago in Developer Experience / InterSystems IRIS 0 Future consideration

    Universal Global Exchange Utility

    1) Description of the idea We have the %GOF/%GIF (IRIS block format) utilities, which are fast but quite limited in functionality: They don't support exporting subglobals. It's not possible to export an entire global mapped across multiple databas...
    Alexey Maslov 7 months ago in InterSystems IRIS 3 Future consideration

    Add Validation for Dispatch Class in Web Application Settings

    1️⃣ Description of the idea Enhance the web application creation process by adding a validation step for the Dispatch Class field. The system should verify that the specified dispatch class exists and is accessible before allowing the web applicat...
    Ashok Kumar T 7 months ago in InterSystems Products 1 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 10 months ago in Developer Experience / InterSystems IRIS 1 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 3 months ago in Initial Developer Experience / InterSystems FHIR Server 0 Future consideration