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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.

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InterSystems IRIS

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AntiMatter Code accelerator

SQL Engines employ "query rewrite" to effect a more efficient query to supplement user expertise or application knowledge. Can Mac / Int code generated by Classes be accelerated in a similar way? Beyond locating inefficient and discouraged code an...
Alex Woodhead over 2 years ago in InterSystems IRIS 0 Will not implement

Errors messages to be more clear

I find it a bit hard to understand the error, maybe error messages can be clear or trying to detect misspelling and create a more understanding of error message.
Evans Tlhako over 1 year ago in InterSystems IRIS 2 Will not implement

IRIS support for Amazon Linux

Amazon Linux is the default OS for virtual machine instances in AWS. While production customers will likely use and pay for RHEL, and Ubuntu is fully supported, Amazon Linux support should be straightforward, since it's based on RHEL. [ec2-user@...
Cliff Mason over 3 years ago in InterSystems IRIS 0 Will not implement

Version History for Classes

Please add a Version History capability, like Mirth. Each class will have a Version History, with Date. Easily allow a class to be reverted to a specific version.
Paul Hurley over 3 years ago in InterSystems IRIS 3 Will not implement

Open protocol to connect to IRIS

If I would need to use not supported programming language with IRIS. It will be quite impossible to do it. with open protocol, it will be possible to add support to any programming language by implementing that protocol there This will help to ext...
Dmitry Maslennikov over 3 years ago in InterSystems IRIS 2 Will not implement

Expand Vector Arithmetics

Enhance Vectore calculation beyond VECTOR_COSINE(),TO_VECTOR(),VECTOR_DOT_PRODUCT() I especially miss these functions: FROM_VECTOR to get the content of $ZV into a variable (JSON ?) ADD_VECTOR() for transformation. For INT and DOUBLE DiFF_VECTOR()...
Robert Cemper almost 2 years ago in InterSystems IRIS 8 Will not implement

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 over 2 years ago in InterSystems IRIS 1 Will not implement

Improve journal display in IRIS admin portal

When I delete a "global" and need to recover it, it's a lot of work to use the journal view page (System Operation > Journal Files). I have to click line by line and copy the content that was in the global, in addition to the message coming wit...
Rodolfo Pscheidt over 3 years ago in InterSystems IRIS 3 Will not implement

BPL, DTL and Rulesets in JSON and/or YAML

Sometimes when working with large rulesets, DTL, and BPL, it is easier to edit it in VSCode as XML than on the visual editors. XML is not the most legible format. If we could edit these as JSON or YAML, it would make editing it a lot easier. Not s...
Stefan Cronje about 2 years ago in InterSystems IRIS 0 Will not implement

AI Enabled Indexes

AI Solution for Indexing: analyze queries being used and make indexing using it. Here are some ideas on indexing. PGM Indexes: Learned indexes that match B-tree performance with 83x less space .
Evgeny Shvarov about 4 years ago in InterSystems IRIS 3 Will not implement