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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    Include bar code/QR code recognition as a standard function

    Zen reports, InterSystem Reports, and IRIS all have ways to generate bar codes and/or QR codes and put them on documents, but there is nothing to read them. Reading them relies on 3rd part packages and sometimes specialized hardware, depending on ...
    David Hockenbroch over 2 years ago in InterSystems IRIS 1 Will not implement

    Add :CSP Shell to Line Recall

    Include $SYSTEM.CSP.Shell() as :CSP, similar to how :sql opens the SQL shell and :py opens the Python shell.
    Ashok Kumar T 8 months ago in InterSystems Products 0 Will not implement

    Improve journal display in IRIS admin portal

    When I delete a "global" and need to recover it, it's a lot of work to use the journal view page (System Operation > Journal Files). I have to click line by line and copy the content that was in the global, in addition to the message coming wit...
    Rodolfo Pscheidt over 3 years ago in InterSystems IRIS 3 Will not implement

    BPL, DTL and Rulesets in JSON and/or YAML

    Sometimes when working with large rulesets, DTL, and BPL, it is easier to edit it in VSCode as XML than on the visual editors. XML is not the most legible format. If we could edit these as JSON or YAML, it would make editing it a lot easier. Not s...
    Stefan Cronje about 2 years ago in InterSystems IRIS 0 Will not implement

    AI Enabled Indexes

    AI Solution for Indexing: analyze queries being used and make indexing using it. Here are some ideas on indexing. PGM Indexes: Learned indexes that match B-tree performance with 83x less space .
    Evgeny Shvarov about 4 years ago in InterSystems IRIS 3 Will not implement

    Introduce the couchbase adapter

    There is a need for Couchbase adapter for IRIS Interoperability.
    Evgeny Shvarov about 4 years ago in InterSystems IRIS 4 Will not implement

    Introduce YAML or JSON support for CPF Merge files

    CPF Merge files are cumbersome now. It is very complicated to create a new merge.CPF without knowing by-heart all the configuration parameters. E.g. take a look an example. Let's introduce YAML (preferrable) or JSON notation for CPF Merge
    Evgeny Shvarov over 1 year ago in InterSystems IRIS 0 Will not implement

    Sample code share opportunity

    It would be useful to have a place to share/request sample code, a place to review or recommend code improvements, especially when someone is new to some specific InterSystems product feature and not part of big team with similar skill sets.
    Mary George over 3 years ago in InterSystems Products 6 Will not implement

    CI/CD support

    Several developer and partner organisations are embracing a continuous integration/continuous delivery practices of software development. There have been several examples in how to achieve this with IRIS, and at some point this requires scripts o...
    Steve Pisani over 3 years ago in InterSystems Products 5 Will not implement

    Improve Production Migration From TST to PRD

    While I understand the current export/import process to move build from a test env to production, it would be nice if there was an automatic function that would migrate from test to production and include all dependencies like data lookup tables, ...
    Corinne Ridgley over 3 years ago in InterSystems IRIS 4 Will not implement