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.

Start by sharing what could be better - the community and our teams will help take it from there.

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InterSystems IRIS

Create a Docker image with material for InterSystems IRIS onboarding

Getting started with InterSystems IRIS is not so easy. There are so many possibilities and for a new dev it could be confusing,and the existing documentation is sparse and not exhaustive.Moreover, ObjectScript has changed a lot over the years, so ...
Pietro Di Leo 7 months ago in Initial Developer Experience / InterSystems IRIS In Progress

Dump SQL tables

we need a way to dump SQL tables as DDL and even DML, to make it possible to migrate tables with data to another server or IRIS Cloud SQL
Evgeny Shvarov about 3 years ago in InterSystems IRIS Already exists

Journal file analysis/visualization

Journal files can provide key insights into database write activity for a number of purposes, ranging from debugging and performance analysis to incident investigation and response. I even once used the history of sets/kills of ^oddDEF to recover ...
Timothy Leavitt over 3 years ago in InterSystems IRIS Done by Community

Create a UI for convenient and easy transfer of projects to other system instances for fast deployment.

Create a user interface for convenient and easy porting of projects (classes, globals, applications, users, roles, privileges, grants, namespace mapping, SQLgateway, libraries, web servers, certificates, products, business services, business proce...
Sergey Mikhailenko over 3 years ago in InterSystems IRIS Done by Community

Open source Parser for ObjectScript

Open source parser driven by InterSystems, required by many types of projects, which could be implemented then by community. Linters, Syntax Analyzers, Security Scans and so on are require parser for ObjectScript Language Server in VSCode is awful...
Dmitry Maslennikov almost 4 years ago in Developer Experience / InterSystems IRIS Ideas Contest

secrets management

A secrets management facility that is much like aws parameter store, k8s secrets, etc... where files, strings, etc can be stored and accessed throughout the product. gpg keyscertsaws credsgcp keysstrings Very similar to "Credentials" in EnsLib but...
Ron Sweeney about 4 years ago in InterSystems IRIS Done by Community

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 7 months ago in Initial Developer Experience / InterSystems IRIS Already exists

Add interface binding to FTP adapters

Current implementation of FTP adapters (EnsLib.FTP.InboundAdapter, EnsLib.FTP.OutboundAdapter) lack a property to force binding with a specific TCP interface, similar to EnsLib.TCP.Common.LocalInterface. Being able to select a specific interface s...
Robert Barbiaux over 1 year ago in InterSystems IRIS Future consideration

Automated Schema Comparison and Synchronization

Problem : if we are maintaining the two separate instances for load balancer. we can't able to maintain the schema comparison and synchronization. it is possible by using git redeploy. but we need to redeploy the code. Proposal : instead we need t...
Veerarajan Karunanithi almost 2 years ago in Developer Experience / InterSystems IRIS Community Opportunity

AntiMatter Code accelerator

SQL Engines employ "query rewrite" to effect a more efficient query to supplement user expertise or application knowledge. Can Mac / Int code generated by Classes be accelerated in a similar way? Beyond locating inefficient and discouraged code an...
Alex Woodhead almost 3 years ago in InterSystems IRIS Will not implement