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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InterSystems IRIS

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 about 3 years ago in InterSystems IRIS Will not implement

Programmatic reports

The report creation is a tedious and non-productive task. You need an IDE, create a connection, create a SQL query, define report bands, drag-and-drop/design report columns, fields, labels, summarizations, margins, charts and prepare perfect pixel...
Yuri Marx about 3 years ago in InterSystems IRIS Done by Community

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 about 3 years ago in InterSystems IRIS Will not implement

Reinstate Studio as a fully supported code editor

Studio is a focused no-nonsense COS/CSP code editor.Although I like VS Code a lot for other programming languages, I find it overkill to just edit IRIS classes and routines. I also like the idea of a dedicated editor: for instance I use PyCharm fo...
Herman Slagman about 3 years ago in InterSystems IRIS Will not implement

Add interoperability adapter for AirTables

Add an inbound adapter and BS for AirTable to be able to connect to AirTables account and react on events "new record appeared", "record changed" Add an outbound adapter and BO to be able to connect to AirTable and add a new record in a particular...
Evgeny Shvarov about 3 years ago in Developer Experience / InterSystems IRIS Community Opportunity

Import classes with ES6 syntax

Being able to import classes into another class for example using ES6 syntax, this way you could reduce the use of ##class(Sample). throughout the document when it is needed repeatedly in more than one place. A possible example would be to be a...
Joan Pérez about 3 years ago in Developer Experience / InterSystems IRIS Ideas Contest

Example of Flask application with SQLAlchemy IRIS

It would be good to have an example of an application made on Python Flask, which works with IRIS through SQLAlchemy
Dmitry Maslennikov about 3 years ago in InterSystems IRIS Done by Community

List OEX business services, operations and processes on Interoperability wizards

Today only official business services, operations and processes are presented as options on Interoperability wizards, but could be great allows to the developer choose community adapters, business services, operations and processes from IPM registry
Yuri Marx about 3 years ago in InterSystems IRIS Will not implement

use Python Class Definition Syntax to create IRIS classes

Now that IRIS support Python, UDL syntax should not be the only way with SQL DDL to define/create classes in IRIS.
Sylvain Guilbaud about 3 years ago in InterSystems IRIS Ideas Contest

Transient data

When modeling a new table or persistent class, allows to mark the table or persistent class as transient. The transient attribute will set how many time the data will exists in the database. Transient data is useful to persist temporal data, like ...
Yuri Marx about 3 years ago in InterSystems IRIS Community Opportunity