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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    Add legitimate special symbol-separator for ObjectScript variable names

    If I have a meaningful variable in languages like Python it is very convenient to use _ as a word separator. E.g. this_is_an_sql_that_causes_an_error="SELECT * FROM TABLE" in IRIS there are no special symbols allowed as separators. So the variable...
    Evgeny Shvarov almost 3 years ago in InterSystems IRIS 1 Will not implement

    Saving Searched Criteria within Message Search

    I tend to create Saved Searches and save them in the Message Viewer for the rest of my team and myself to help search for messages in troubleshooting systems. I find if I need to update a Saved Search there is not a good way to pull down existing ...
    Scott Roth almost 3 years ago in InterSystems IRIS 0 Planned

    %NormalizeObject to cater for serial, list of objects and user call-back

    It will be helpful if the %NormalizeObject method had the same depth of functionality as %ValidateObject. %ValidateObject has the checkserial argument. Adding the same type of argument to %Normalize will make things simpler when it comes to normal...
    Stefan Cronje almost 3 years ago in InterSystems IRIS 0 Ideas Contest

    Public API for access to shared memory

    Sometimes we need to have a resource shared among several processes, e.g. some application counters, that we don't want to be looked up by users. Globals don't fit this need for evident reason. The idea is to provide an API which allow shared (whi...
    Alexey Maslov almost 3 years ago in Developer Experience / InterSystems IRIS 2 Ideas Contest

    Create a tool for IRIS BI to test all the pivots and dashboards if they still work after changes made

    Sometimes when we make changes in the data classes, in pivots it can influence on the pivots and dashbords and those stop working. And it is very difficult to find the problem in pivots and dashboards especially if there are a lot of them - e.g. h...
    Evgeny Shvarov over 3 years ago in Developer Experience / InterSystems IRIS BI 0 Community Opportunity

    Add address standardization to Normalization (using Project US@ standards)

    Standardizing the address fields would improve autolinking and save time spent on manual review. By using the US@ standards, it would improve interoperability and data sharing. Minutes from the April 2021 meeting are attached. See ONC for further ...
    Susan Saul over 3 years ago in InterSystems HealthShare 0 Ideas Contest

    String format to numeric values in ZEN.proxyObject

    Hi, I just published an article with a new feature to allow returning numerical values of JSON attributes in String format. https://community.intersystems.com/post/new-feature-zenproxyobject-send-numeric-string I think it would be a good improveme...
    Daniel Aguilar over 3 years ago in InterSystems Products 0 Will not implement

    Linux: iris session [command line] get commands from a file

    On Linux systems, the command line interface there is no command that says read commands from a file. A sample session looks like: iris session myinstance Username: superuser Password: ************ myinstance:USER>zn "%SYS" myinstance:USER...
    Phillip Wu over 3 years ago in InterSystems IRIS 5 Already exists

    Backup button before importing

    Wouldn't be it so useful to have a button inside Studio to generate an automatic backup from all classes which are being overwritted before importing new ones?
    Yone Moreno over 3 years ago in InterSystems Products 2 Will not implement

    Mirror Async Member Time Delay in Applying Journals

    Currently a async member will be in sync with the primary, however in the event of an issue such as a global being deleted then both the servers would have the same issue. However if the async member had a delay journal process property then the a...
    Gary Holt over 3 years ago in InterSystems IRIS 4 Will not implement