InterSystems Ideas

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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

Make the debugger skip classes without generated code

There's just no use on having the debugger jump inside classes that don't have generated code (such as %DynamicObject, %Api.Atelier, %RegisteredObject etc), causing it to fail and make the whole debugging procedure a hell. Mind you that while we c...
Rubens Silva about 1 month ago in InterSystems IRIS Needs review

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

Filter DTLs in Rule Definitions

When defining a Rule and adding a Send action I would like to see better filtering on the list of Transforms listed in the UI If the rule is Rule Type = HL7 Message Routing Rule it would seem that the only valid transforms to select are those wh...
Stephen Canzano 4 months ago in Developer Experience / InterSystems IRIS Future consideration

Enhance CREATE DATABASE by adding WITH INTEROP and WITH ANALYTICS options

While it's very convenient to use the CREATE DATABASE command to quickly create a namespace with two databases suffixed with D for data and C for code, it would also be useful to add options to automatically make this namespace immediately availab...
Sylvain Guilbaud 3 months ago in Developer Experience / InterSystems IRIS Will not implement

See globals size in Management Portal.

In System > Globals it would be helpful to see the globals sizes, and be able to sort them by this new column.
Sylvain Guilbaud about 2 years ago in InterSystems IRIS Will not implement

Move users, roles, resources, user tasks, Mappings (etc) to a seperate Database, other than %SYS, so these items can be mirrored

There's nothing worse than failing over to find that many of your users are expired or don't exist or that your tasks do not exist. While mirroring is tried and true, the non-mirrorable items, as previously listed, are needed for true redundancy.
Sean O'Connor over 3 years ago in InterSystems IRIS In Progress

BPL, DTL, Business Rule Editor in VSCode

Today is painfull when we use BPL, DTL and Business Rule in projects that the IDE is VSCode.
Cristiano Silva over 3 years ago in Developer Experience / InterSystems IRIS Implemented

Add a wizard similar to the SOAP wizard to generate a REST client from OpenAPI specification

Not all APIs used in integrations are SOAP and it would be really useful having a wizard that cuts down the development time of REST API orchestrations with IRIS.
Jaime Lerga over 3 years ago in InterSystems IRIS Done by Community

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 6 months ago in Initial Developer Experience / InterSystems IRIS Future consideration

IRIS Community with no connections limit

IRIS Community Edition without limit on connections amount instead, limit IRIS by cores and memory, i.e. limit it to 2-4 cores and 4-8GB RAM IRIS Community Edition is very useful in automated testing or some simple demos, but it's useless due to l...
Dmitry Maslennikov over 2 years ago in InterSystems IRIS Ideas Contest