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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    Embedded Python: Add a built-in variable to represent class

    Currently coding an embedded python method in ObjectScript class when I want to call a classmethod of the same class I need to use the construction: iris.cls(__name__).ClassMethod() Would it be possible to add a built-in variable, e.g. cself, that...
    Evgeny Shvarov over 3 years ago in InterSystems IRIS 0 Ideas Contest

    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 about 2 years ago in InterSystems IRIS 0 Ideas Contest

    IPM store on Management Portal

    From a new screen in the IRIS Management Portal, list all IPM projects and allows to install them from it
    Yuri Marx over 2 years ago in Developer Experience / InterSystems IRIS 0 Ideas Contest

    Import classes with ES6 syntax

    Being able to import classes into another class for example using ES6 syntax, this way you could reduce the use of ##class(Sample). throughout the document when it is needed repeatedly in more than one place. A possible example would be to be a...
    Joan PĂ©rez over 2 years ago in Developer Experience / InterSystems IRIS 0 Ideas Contest

    Make Every Operation and Service Expose its message classes

    Every Interoperability Business Service sends a message of a certain type. Every Operation receives a request message of a certain type and then sends back a response message of a certain class type. Currently it is not clear which are the these c...
    Evgeny Shvarov over 2 years ago in InterSystems IRIS 0 Ideas Contest

    %NormalizeObject to cater for serial, list of objects and user call-back

    It will be helpful if the %NormalizeObject method had the same depth of functionality as %ValidateObject. %ValidateObject has the checkserial argument. Adding the same type of argument to %Normalize will make things simpler when it comes to normal...
    Stefan Cronje almost 3 years ago in InterSystems IRIS 0 Ideas Contest

    Public API for access to shared memory

    Sometimes we need to have a resource shared among several processes, e.g. some application counters, that we don't want to be looked up by users. Globals don't fit this need for evident reason. The idea is to provide an API which allow shared (whi...
    Alexey Maslov almost 3 years ago in Developer Experience / InterSystems IRIS 2 Ideas Contest

    Do not change formatting when compiling through GUI

    In mixed development environments where some team members use the GUI and others use VS Code, the latter will remove the formatting (comments, algebraic assignment notation, spacing) performed by the former when compiling.
    Jonathan Anglin over 3 years ago in InterSystems IRIS 2 Ideas Contest