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Optional "Green Mode" Configuration Setting for IRIS

Much like how cars often have a "Eco" driving mode, create an optional mode for using IRIS in a greener manner. If a user of IRIS wants to prioritize reducing their carbon footprint over performance, they should be able to do so. It's possible ...
Nelson Tarr 10 months ago in InterSystems IRIS 0 Future consideration

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 10 months ago in InterSystems IRIS 0 Future consideration

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 10 months ago in InterSystems IRIS 0 Future consideration

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 10 months ago in InterSystems IRIS 4 Future consideration

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 11 months ago in InterSystems IRIS 2 Future consideration

Make Every Operation and Service Expose its message classes

Every Interoperability Business Service sends a message of a certain type. Every Operation receives a request message of a certain type and then sends back a response message of a certain class type. Currently it is not clear which are the these c...
Evgeny Shvarov 11 months ago in InterSystems IRIS 0 Future consideration

%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 about 1 year ago in InterSystems IRIS 0 Future consideration

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 about 1 year ago in InterSystems IRIS 1 Future consideration

Set password through environment variable

In a continious integration processes, for some applications, for testing purposes, it's useful to run vanilla IRIS and run integration tests, for Python applications for instance And the best way to do it, is to use services feature in popular CI...
Dmitry Maslennikov about 1 year ago in InterSystems IRIS 5 Future consideration

Add the option to call class parameters in Embedded Python

Currently, class parameters can be called in ObjectScript in the following way: write ..#ParameterName The same construction in Embedded Python looks like this: import irisprint(iris.cls('ClassName')._GetParameter("ParameterName") Could it be simp...
Evgeny Shvarov over 1 year ago in InterSystems IRIS 0 Future consideration