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

Binding Local Interface to all Outbound Adapters

There are many ideas out there to allow us to Bind "Local Interface" to different adapters, but what if we were able to do this for all Outbound Adapters including SQL Outbound. If you are in a mirrored environment, more than likely you are using ...
Scott Roth 11 months ago in InterSystems Products Needs review

Programmatic Conversion from SDA to HL7 v2

1️⃣ Description of the idea Currently, developers can convert HL7 v2 messages to SDA format using the class method HS.Gateway.HL7.HL7ToSDA3.GetSDA() effortlessly. However, there is no equivalent built-in method to convert an SDA document back to a...
Ashok Kumar Thangavel 12 months ago in Developer Experience / InterSystems Products Needs review

Energy Consumption Estimate Report Per Production / Business Component

Do you know how much energy a production or even an individual business component uses? I haven't got a clue If intersystems could build a front end report that estimated the energy usage of a production/component based on the number of messages p...
Rob Ellis almost 3 years ago in InterSystems IRIS Community Opportunity

Database Cache (Global Buffers) needs to be optimized

IRIS for health version 2023 sets Database Cache (Global Buffers) to 25% of physical memory by default, which is not secure and can be quite large if a server group uses shared memory. At the same time, this setting is very important, if a more ap...
王喆 👀 almost 3 years ago in InterSystems Products Will not implement

TTL(Time To Live) Parameter in %Persistent Class

1️⃣ Description of the idea Introduce a new TTL (Time-To-Live) parameter within the %Persistent class. When enabled and configured with a time value (in seconds), this parameter automatically adds an internal expiration timestamp property and add ...
Ashok Kumar Thangavel 12 months ago in InterSystems Products Community Opportunity

Why use storage for an index that has never been used?

If an index has never been used (or not for a long time), is it really necessary to use hard drive storage for the index? After a sufficiently long time has passed, it seems like it would be possible to purge storage of index data. The index would...
Nelson Tarr almost 3 years ago in InterSystems IRIS Will not implement

Advanced real-time data processing optimization for InterSystems IRIS

In this Idea-A-Thon, I propose to develop innovative technology that enables advanced optimization of real-time data processing for InterSystems IRIS. The central idea is to implement a new hardware acceleration module based on FPGA (Field-Program...
Yone Moreno almost 3 years ago in InterSystems IRIS Will not implement

recursive search in Abstract Set Query

1️⃣ Description of the Idea Introduce recursive search capability in InterSystems Abstract Set Query (ASQ) to efficiently navigate and retrieve data from complex %DynamicObject and %DynamicArray structures. This enhancement enables querying deeply...
Ashok Kumar Thangavel 12 months ago in InterSystems Products Needs review

Create DTL on the fly from within a Business Process

When working on a new Business Process, and you add a Translation as an object to the Business Process it requires that the DTL already be built so you can insert it into the required values. It would be nice if we could create a DTL on the fly wi...
Scott Roth almost 2 years ago in InterSystems Products Implemented

Provide a Supported Mechanism for Custom Captions for Business Host Properties

See the justification and workaround here: https://community.intersystems.com/node/546311 The workaround above has drawbacks, so a formal, ISC-supported mechnism for providing captions for custom properties would be a benefit.
Jeffrey Drumm almost 3 years ago in InterSystems IRIS for Health Future consideration