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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    Implement or incorporate a mocking framework to complement %UnitTest class

    Interoperability components often have dependencies such as external connections or callouts to external packages/libraries. In order to create UnitTests, we need to mock those components with something like Mockito so we aren't required to write ...
    Chi Nguyen-Rettig almost 2 years ago in Developer Experience / InterSystems IRIS 0 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 0 Ideas Contest

    Make IRIS a part of Spring Cloud

    Many companies use Spring Cloud today. With the advent of the full cloud era, hospitals inevitably need to span multiple independent but interdependent applications or partners, and the traditional single ESB platform that only gives SOA architect...
    王喆 👀 over 2 years ago in InterSystems IRIS 7 Will not implement

    While posting Articles, need an option to add more than one Documentation Link.

    While posting articles, few may have more than one link to the documentation of the article they have written. Need an option to add more links.
    Vachan Rannore 2 months ago in Developer Community 0 Needs review

    Settings should be a part of Mirroring

    Noticed that if some of the settings at the %SYS level are updated on the Primary instance of the mirror they are not being copied down to the rest of the Mirror members. If you do not notice this, then settings could get out of sync between the m...
    Scott Roth almost 3 years ago in InterSystems IRIS 4 Planned

    Provide Copy link in Documatic Examples

    Documatic http://localhost:52773/csp/documatic/%25CSP.Documatic.cls provides for the ability to use special HTML markup tags including <example>. This idea is to update %CSP.Documatic so that within an example tag there is also a UI element ...
    Stephen Canzano 2 months ago in Documentation 0 Planned

    Binding IP Address to SOAP Operations

    If you are running a mirrored environment and using a VIP, sometimes the VIP has an assigned NAT. Specifying "Local Interface" or binding the request to a specified value is helpful for setting up a Firewall rule to allow the connection to happen.
    Scott Roth 9 months ago in InterSystems Products 2 Needs review

    Add FDN Tag within InterSystems Developer Community

    It would be nice to tag FDN related articles under HealthShare.
    Scott Roth 5 months ago in Developer Community 0 Needs review

    Add Form Definition Notation (FDN) validation to VS Code Extension

    It would be nice if the VS Code Extension for InterSystems could validate the Form Definition Notation (FDN) format so we can understand the breakdown in defining forms within vs code class files. Right now, it is trial/error if I update the Class...
    Scott Roth 5 months ago in Developer Experience / InterSystems HealthShare 0 Needs review

    clear the chat history in our Developer Community AI assistant.

    In 2025, a deletion feature for a programming AI is a technical and legal necessity rather than a luxury. Forcing permanent storage of proprietary code creates an unacceptable intellectual property risk, as even inadvertent leaks of API keys or se...
    Stella Ticker 2 months ago in Developer Community 1 Implemented