InterSystems IRIS

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 ...

The traditional acronym, COS (=Caché ObjectScript) is not really up-to-dateand appears to be rather unwelcome in an official context ISOS for InterSystems ObjectScript seems to be more appropriate

When testing a item, after selecting the request, it would be useful to display the description/ commentary of each property of the message.

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...

Problem Operational issues (bad data, unusual traffic spikes, rising error rates) are discovered too late, after queues back up or downstream systems fail. Current Event Log, Message Viewer, and Visual Trace are excellent for investigation, bu...

Problem Implementing new interfaces still takes many hours: picking the right adapters, scaffolding Business Service/Process/Operation classes, authoring Rule Sets, and writing DTLs. Specs often live in Excel, emails, or PDFs and must be translate...

RFC 9562 defines UUID v7, as a timestamp based universally unique identifier (https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9562.html#name-uuid-version-7). Supporting this type of UUID as the IdKey of persistent classes may have multiple advantages: The ID ...

The %JSONIGNORENULL parameter was working as documented up to version 2020, after that version it does not work anymore. The idea is to fix it as per documentation or, in case there are concerns in existing code that may rely on bugged implemen...

^%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...

Develop a light version for InterSystems IRIS. It is a fact that IRIS, today, includes several improvements and new functionalities, however, like "all" software evolution, it also requires heavier hardware resources. Not all applications need all...