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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    Compression in SQL Functions

    Introduce SQL functions such as COMPRESS() and UNCOMPRESS() to facilitate data compression and decompression. 1️⃣ Description of the idea Introduce native SQL functions COMPRESS(data, algorithm) and UNCOMPRESS(data) to perform data compression a...
    Ashok Kumar T 8 months ago in InterSystems Products 1 Will not implement

    Support UUID v7 as IdKey

    RFC 9562 defines UUID v7, as a timestamp based universally unique identifier (https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9562.html#name-uuid-version-7). Supporting this type of UUID as the IdKey of persistent classes may have multiple advantages: The ID ...
    Attila Toth 3 months ago in Developer Experience / InterSystems IRIS 1 Will not implement

    Adding Ctrl+V functionality to iris terminals

    Essentially this idea boosts the current functionality of pasting into the IRIS terminal. Over the course of the year, this will save developers in total countless hours of having to right click and paste instead of keyboard macros Any users of ...
    John Spead 8 months ago in InterSystems IRIS 1 Will not implement

    Add Search to Banner

    We use the Search functionality in InterSystems HealthShare (Health Connect) to navigate around our TIE. This is only available on the Home page. It would be great if it could be part of the banner so searching is available on any screen.
    Lewis Houlden over 1 year ago in InterSystems HealthShare 2 Will not implement

    Full studio migration to VSCode

    Implement the class, property, and index addition wizards implemented in the studio as extensions of VSCode. Also implement the inspector window in the same way. They are a good opportunity to forget how to write parameters, etc., or to learn para...
    Akio Hashimoto over 2 years ago in InterSystems Products 4 Will not implement

    AntiMatter Code accelerator

    SQL Engines employ "query rewrite" to effect a more efficient query to supplement user expertise or application knowledge. Can Mac / Int code generated by Classes be accelerated in a similar way? Beyond locating inefficient and discouraged code an...
    Alex Woodhead over 2 years ago in InterSystems IRIS 0 Will not implement

    Errors messages to be more clear

    I find it a bit hard to understand the error, maybe error messages can be clear or trying to detect misspelling and create a more understanding of error message.
    Evans Tlhako over 1 year ago in InterSystems IRIS 2 Will not implement

    IRIS support for Amazon Linux

    Amazon Linux is the default OS for virtual machine instances in AWS. While production customers will likely use and pay for RHEL, and Ubuntu is fully supported, Amazon Linux support should be straightforward, since it's based on RHEL. [ec2-user@...
    Cliff Mason over 3 years ago in InterSystems IRIS 0 Will not implement

    InterSystems IRIS for Energy management

    An InterSystems product developed specifically for energy management, such as InterSystems IRIS for Health is made for health care. It would make it easier for companies who want to apply green solutions to their production, which suits any busine...
    Heloisa Paiva over 2 years ago in InterSystems Products 1 Will not implement

    Add EncounterNumber Index to HSAA.Encounter

    Adding an index on EncounterNumber in HSAA.Encounter will significantly enhance query performance by reducing full table scans, optimizing joins, and accelerating data retrieval for reporting and analytics. Many reports and queries rely on filteri...
    Stella Ticker about 1 year ago in InterSystems HealthShare 0 Will not implement