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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    Implement autosave for DTL and BPL pages

    This is a very recurrent complain from our customers, it's very common that they lose all the design implemented for a DTL/BPL after an automatic web page refresh or a session close. That would be great to have an automatic save where you can get ...
    Luis Angel Pérez Ramos over 2 years ago in Developer Experience / InterSystems Products 5 Planned

    Automatically Expose Interactive API Documentation

    Enable interactive API documentation automatically for web applications. 1️⃣ Description of the idea Automatically enable a default API documentation endpoint—such as /docs or /apidocs—when a new %CSP.REST-based dispatch class is created. This end...
    Ashok Kumar T 7 months ago in InterSystems Products 5 Community Opportunity

    Include an option in HealthShare (UCR) to support natively a vectorized database of patients' clinical data, enabling retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) for communication with market-available large language models (LLMs).

    This feature would provide substantial added value to the product, particularly in the AI-driven era. Additionally, the vector search capability will support a wide variety of other use cases.
    Claudio Devecchi over 1 year ago in InterSystems HealthShare 0 Community Opportunity

    Move users, roles, resources, user tasks, Mappings (etc) to a seperate Database, other than %SYS, so these items can be mirrored

    There's nothing worse than failing over to find that many of your users are expired or don't exist or that your tasks do not exist. While mirroring is tried and true, the non-mirrorable items, as previously listed, are needed for true redundancy.
    Sean O'Connor over 3 years ago in InterSystems IRIS 2 In Progress

    Macros in Classes

    Currently, there are two possibilities to use macros in a class 1) with the "Include" keyword at the beginning of a class definition 2) in EACH (class)metod definition one or more macros can be defined with the "define", "def1arg", etc. keywords...
    Julius Kavay 9 months ago in InterSystems Products 2 Will not implement

    Break down IRIS in microservices

    The objective is to decompose the IRIS monolith into independently scalable microservices within a cloud-native architecture. For instance, the OAuth2 server could be scaled independently without deploying additional full IRIS instances. These mic...
    Dorian Tetu 7 months ago in InterSystems IRIS 1 Will not implement

    Integrate InterSystems IRIS with SQLancer for Automated SQL Testing and Validation

    SQLancer is a tool to automatically test Database Management Systems (DBMSs) in order to find bugs in their implementation. That is, it finds bugs in the code of the DBMS implementation, rather than in queries written by the user. SQLancer has fou...
    Dmitry Maslennikov 7 months ago in Developer Experience / InterSystems IRIS 1 Done by Community

    IRIS for Health Blockchain connector

    To develop a Connector enabling the seamless export of health data from Intersystems IRIS for Health to a blockchain repository, empowering patients with control over their own health data. This solution ensures data integrity, transparency, and s...
    Johni Fisher about 1 year ago in Developer Experience / InterSystems IRIS 2 Community Opportunity

    IRIS Native JSON Schema Validator

    Native JSON schema validator classes in IRIS 1️⃣ Description of the idea Introduce native JSON Schema validator classes in IRIS that allow developers to validate JSON data against a predefined JSON Schema. This would enable built-in support for st...
    Ashok Kumar T 7 months ago in Developer Experience / InterSystems Products 2 Done by Community

    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