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.

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InterSystems IRIS

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    Bring back the wizards

    As there are no wizards in VSCode, it can be daunting for new programmers to write code correctly, for example, relationships. So the idea is to add to the extension some functionality to give commented-out examples of how to describe classes corr...
    Iryna Mykhailova 4 months ago in Initial Developer Experience / InterSystems IRIS 2 Already exists

    Add a "mentor mode" to Management portal

    Introduce an optional "mentor mode" for the Management portal (switched on by default for new installations) that detects common setup mistakes / best practices, and provides a pop-up to draw attention to them. For example, if the user sets %All i...
    Iryna Mykhailova 4 months ago in Initial Developer Experience / InterSystems IRIS 0 Future consideration

    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 4 months ago in Developer Experience / InterSystems IRIS 1 Done by Community

    Generate diagrams of IRIS configuration details

    Extract IRIS configuration information and use it to generate diagrams showing aspects such as: How ECP is being used to connect application servers and data servers. The relationships between namespaces and databases, including where mappings...
    John Murray 5 months ago in InterSystems IRIS 2 Done by Community

    YamlAdaptor objectscript class

    The YML Adaptor is a means for mapping ObjectScript objects (registered, serial or persistent) to YAML text or dynamic entities. When a class extends YmlAdaptor it will be able to: YMLExport() serializes a YAML enabled class as a YMAL document a...
    Yuri Marx 6 months ago in Developer Experience / InterSystems IRIS 1 Done by Community

    Use ISOS as acronym for InterSystems ObjectScript

    The traditional acronym, COS (=Caché ObjectScript) is not really up-to-dateand appears to be rather unwelcome in an official context ISOS for InterSystems ObjectScript seems to be more appropriate
    Robert Cemper 6 months ago in InterSystems IRIS 3 Community Opportunity

    Provide a single page view of free space in IRIS DBs

    Actually, the information on free space in IRIS DBs requires many clicksand manual drilldown for each DB. +
    Robert Cemper 6 months ago in InterSystems IRIS 1 Done by Community

    System Explorer->SQL allow print before running a SQL statement and getting results

    Using System Explorer->SQL we can run a SQL statement and see the results. For some queries, for example in Health Insight against the HSAA.Observation table I would like to run SELECT ObservationCode_code,ObservationCode_SDACodingStandard,coun...
    Stephen Canzano 7 months ago in InterSystems IRIS 0 Needs review

    Adding Ctrl+V functionality to iris terminals

    Essentially this idea boosts the current functionality of pasting into the IRIS terminal. Over the course of the year, this will save developers in total countless hours of having to right click and paste instead of keyboard macros Any users of ...
    John Spead 8 months ago in InterSystems IRIS 1 Will not implement

    ObjectScript API to create MS Word files based on templates

    Currently, IRIS doesn't have ObjectScript functionality for creating Word files. Python or Java are required. Furthermore, even using these languages, it's a complex process that requires many lines of source code. Therefore, the idea is to use an...
    Yuri Marx 8 months ago in InterSystems IRIS 2 Done by Community