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 IRIS

Support for redoc for IRIS REST APIs

Create redoc (https://redocly.com/docs/redoc) documentation for APIs created with InterSystems IRIS ObjectScript, with support for ZPM.
Yuri Marx 2 months ago in Bounty / Developer Experience / InterSystems IRIS Community Opportunity

Code snippets library

The Studio has a tab where you can add code snippets on your local machine (with a very small amount of code snippets already present). It would be nice to build a library of code snippets on the community site to perform a variety of tasks like u...
Danny Wijnschenk over 3 years ago in Initial Developer Experience / InterSystems IRIS Community Opportunity

Add error output to %File.RemoveDirectoryTree()

The documentation for using RemoveDirectoryTree says that there is no output argument for returning a system error code. I would like to see one added, especially since the error output on other functions tends to be a %DynamicArray type which wou...
Robbie Luman 4 months ago in Developer Experience / InterSystems IRIS Future consideration

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 5 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 5 months ago in Developer Experience / InterSystems IRIS Will not implement

Allow form JSON Objects with variables without parentesis

Currently ObjectScript needs developers to use parenthesis when embedding variables into JSON, e.g. we set authToken and respUser variables and return it in JSON result of a method : quit {"token":(authToken),"user":(respUser)} But it is more obvi...
Evgeny Shvarov 4 months ago in Developer Experience / InterSystems IRIS Will not implement

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 11 months ago in InterSystems IRIS Done by Community

Introduce a whatsapp adapter for IRIS Interoperability

WhatsApp is getting a number one channel for communication, even for business. It'd be great to have an adapter, BO, and BS to support WhatsApp
Evgeny Shvarov 6 months ago in Developer Experience / InterSystems IRIS Community Opportunity

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 over 3 years ago in Developer Experience / InterSystems IRIS Ideas Contest

Introduce generated unittests for REST API calls generated by ^%REST vs Open API spec

^%REST can generate REST API classes that handle calls listed in Open API spec. It'd be great if the lib could also generate unittests for all the implementation methods. Tests could leverage approach, provided by David Hockenbroch here, which hel...
Evgeny Shvarov 7 months ago in Developer Experience / InterSystems IRIS Done by Community