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 Built-In Change History / Version Log for Data Transformations (DTL)

Right now, the DTL editor doesn't offer a way to see the change history of a Data Transformation directly within the tool. When working on complex DTLs that are edited by multiple developers over time, it would be very useful to see who changed wh...
Ricard Ferrando Paredes about 1 month ago in InterSystems IRIS Needs review

Read-only operations cockpit for InterSystems IRIS management APIs

IRIS Ops Lens is a read-only operations cockpit for InterSystems IRIS. It surfaces health metrics, monitor alerts, REST services, and OpenAPI endpoints in one place. Operators can inspect status safely without changing production data and hand off...
Aidan Hernandez 21 days ago in InterSystems IRIS Needs review

Provide Unix ‘expect’ like functionality to automate the running of iris routines

Often IRIS routines require interactive responses to questions. My idea is to be able to run IRIS routines in the background and supply repsonses from a Python routine. This is common functionality in the Linux world. You can for instance run a un...
Phillip Wu about 2 months ago in InterSystems IRIS Needs review

Out-of-the-box Enterprise Service Bus solution on IRIS Data Platform

It is no secret that integration is required for any complex IT solution involving many separate applications. IRIS Data Platform already has everything necessary: a lot of connectors, an API server, a database, and an unachievable-by-others level...
Andrew Sklyarov 2 months ago in Initial Developer Experience / InterSystems IRIS Needs review

Add a warning when a Business Operation has unlimited retries (FailureTimeout = -1)

Add a built-in safeguard/warning when a Business Operation is configured with FailureTimeout = -1 (unlimited retries), since this can cause unbounded growth of the system error log (^ERRORS) and fill up the namespace disk space. A configurable aut...
Ricard Ferrando Paredes 3 months ago in InterSystems IRIS Needs review

Option to CompileAllNamespaces() after failover to new version

When manually failing over from older version of IRIS to Newer version of IRIS by forcing a manual failover, it does not give enough time to run a CompileAllNamespaces() on the new version of IRIS before transactions start to process after failove...
Scott Roth 6 months ago in InterSystems IRIS Needs review

Add SQL Query History

There is no way to see the history of SQL queries on a particular IRIS server. it'd be good to have for debugging and performance improvement helper. Yes, there are statements with Frozen parameters available, but sometimes one needs to see the ex...
Evgeny Shvarov 9 months ago in Developer Experience / InterSystems IRIS Needs review

Make it possible to have a separate client certificate for a mirror

Currently in a mirror the same certificate is used as TLS server as well as TLS client. As more and more commercial CAs don't provide these type of certificates anymore, I'm now forced to create my own certificate to be able to comply. Certificate...
Luk Claes 6 months 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 7 months ago in Developer Experience / InterSystems IRIS Needs review

Add an optional condition expression attribute to all Business Process activities so they execute only when the condition evaluates to true, minimizing the need for wrapping <if> blocks.

Currently, in Business Processes , if a developer wants to execute a single activity-such as an <assign>, <call>, or <transform>-conditionally, they must explicitly wrap that activity inside an <if> block or manage complex ...
Roman Faustov 4 months ago in InterSystems IRIS Needs review