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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

Use of package management systems

There is no way at the moment to install any driver to IRIS for any suppoorted programming language. Java drivers not available on Maven (even https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/com.intersystems/intersystems-jdbc, just fake empty files) Python dri...
Dmitry Maslennikov almost 2 years ago in InterSystems IRIS 1 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

Bare minimum start of IRIS for docker build

During docker build, it's useless to start full functional IRIS, it would be enough to start just bare minimally, do not start the internal web server, ECP, and so on. Just only staff enough to build a code and make some changes in settings.
Dmitry Maslennikov over 1 year ago in InterSystems IRIS 0 Future consideration

SQL Return ID

Add functionality to SQL to use RETURN on insert statements. To return the value of whichever field is specified after the insert. Can be useful when using SQL to insert records and you need the ID immediately without having to select it.
Stefan Cronje 6 months ago in InterSystems IRIS 4 Future consideration

Why use storage for an index that has never been used?

If an index has never been used (or not for a long time), is it really necessary to use hard drive storage for the index? After a sufficiently long time has passed, it seems like it would be possible to purge storage of index data. The index would...
Nelson Tarr 10 months ago in InterSystems IRIS 5 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

Create List and Array Data Types that uses a PPG and not memory

When working with large arrays or lists, like with a Complex Record Map, and you get files with 200 000 lines, it uses a lot of Per Process Memory. Sometimes the process might even run out of memory if the file is too large. Can ArrayOfX and ListO...
Stefan Cronje 4 months ago in InterSystems IRIS 0 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

A Dynamic Cheat Sheet to lookup for Common Core Functions for Reusability

When developing Region or site level codes, sometimes we tend to create our own functions to complete it; But what if there is a core function which does the same thing and you didn't know of. Below advantages can be achieved if the common core fu...
Shareek Ahamed over 1 year ago in InterSystems IRIS 3 Future consideration