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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InterSystems Products

Simplify classnames calls in ObjectScript

Currently everyone use ##class(classname).methodname() to call it. e.g. do ##class(Sample).ClassMethod() This is one of the painful moments about ObjectScript for developers. Can we introduce a parallel support of more simplified way, as: #classna...
Evgeny Shvarov almost 4 years ago in Developer Experience / InterSystems IRIS Ideas Contest

DTL testing with JSON support

The current test functionality available from DTL only works for XML data, add JSON format as an option would be really helpful.
Luis Angel Pérez Ramos 11 months ago in Developer Experience / InterSystems Products Future consideration

Bring IRIS to the JavaScript ORM World

1️⃣ Description of the Idea Add official support or adapters for popular Node.js ORMs (TypeORM, Prisma, MikroORM, Sequelize) to InterSystems IRIS. Instead of building a new ORM from scratch, this idea focuses on enabling IRIS as a supported databa...
Dmitry Maslennikov about 1 year ago in InterSystems IRIS Done by Community

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 almost 4 years ago in InterSystems IRIS In Progress

See globals size in Management Portal.

In System > Globals it would be helpful to see the globals sizes, and be able to sort them by this new column.
Sylvain Guilbaud over 2 years ago in InterSystems IRIS Will not implement

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 almost 3 years ago in Developer Experience / InterSystems Products Will not implement

Superset language for ObjectScript

With the coming of dynamic objects I feel that at this point we need something that ressembles TypeScript. So my suggestion is for having a superset language that can be transpiled to either classes or routines, whichever fits the bill. The idea i...
Rubens Silva 7 months ago in Developer Experience / InterSystems IRIS Will not implement

Add a compiler flag to disable accidental code formatting

Add a compiler flag to relax or prevent the code from auto-formatting whenever a source file is imported and thus compiled, the reasoning for that is for preventing irrelevant changes from showing up in the source control such as: argument multi-l...
Rubens Silva 7 months ago in Developer Experience / InterSystems IRIS Will not implement

implement digital signature for JSON / serialize json to canonicalized form per RFC 8785

when exchaning patient documents over information networks, it is demanded to sign these documents digtally. whilst we support cryptogprahy for XML documents, we do not have similar functionality available for serialized json documents.
Daniel Kutac 9 months ago in Developer Experience / InterSystems IRIS for Health Future consideration

Add Category to Extended Criteria in Message Viewer

Oftentimes when issues with real-time integrations are reported to Integration Analysts, troubleshooting the integration is more complex than simply searching across one interface. For example, if an order is missing, we know that many target appl...
Jennifer Dennis 6 months ago in Developer Experience / InterSystems IRIS Interoperability Future consideration