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

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 4 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 3 months ago in Developer Experience / InterSystems IRIS Will not implement

Add a debugger for Embedded Python in Visual Studio Code

Recently, Embedded Python was introduced as a programming language alongside ObjectScript. At the same time, the InterSystems Studio IDE has been deprecated for the newer and multilanguage Visual Studio Code (VSC), which is also equipped with a de...
Pietro Di Leo almost 2 years ago in Developer Experience / InterSystems IRIS Planned

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

Setting Parameters for Tasks that are OnDemand

It would be nice if when you run a Task to be OnDemand, that you can set Parameters for that Task to be ran as OnDemand, and not have to modify the Task within the Task Scheduler.
Scott Roth about 1 month ago in InterSystems IRIS Needs review

Security Import/Export from Management Portal

Add Import/Export options from the Management Portal for Security configurations. In many customers the access of the users to the Terminal is blocked for security policies and they can't export/import configurations among environments. Including ...
Luis Angel Pérez Ramos 2 months ago in Developer Experience / InterSystems IRIS Needs review

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 5 months ago in Developer Experience / InterSystems IRIS Community Opportunity

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 10 months ago in InterSystems IRIS Done by Community

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

Add Process Id to the Task Details page and allow stopping a task while running

Currently, the Task Details page within the Task Manager doesn't show the process id of the Task while it is running neither allows the user to stop the task while it is running. Many times I've seen tasks running forever due to bugs, bad queries ...
Pietro Di Leo 3 months ago in Developer Experience / InterSystems IRIS Future consideration