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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built-in way to dynamically include all columns in JSON_OBJECT()

There’s currently no way to Dynamically include all columns in JSON_OBJECT() without manually listing them in the SQL query. However, Scalar function JSON_OBJECT not supported for stream fields ex: SELECT JSON_OBJECT(t) FROM TABLE t / SELECT JSON_...
Ashok Kumar Thangavel over 1 year ago in InterSystems Products Ideas Contest

Private Variables

Provide variables that don't appear in the regular symbol table. Example: Start a server process and provide a Private Key. As long as the process runs, its value is held in memory. We don't want anyone to snoop around the Management Portal or an ...
Herman Slagman over 2 years ago in InterSystems IRIS Ideas Contest

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 about 4 years ago in Developer Experience / InterSystems IRIS Ideas Contest

Easier Navigation in Management Portal: Shortcuts, Recent Pages, Search bar

It takes quite a few steps to go to where you need to go in the Management Portal. If the site has UCR installed, then that number skyrockets. I have looked into if there's a way to easily create a more easily navigable set of links in the managem...
Chi Nguyen-Rettig over 2 years ago in Initial Developer Experience / InterSystems Products Ideas Contest

Adding Process Start Date and Time

As part of various type of monitoring. It is good to have process start date and time in process details in SMP and in the system process table.
Sundara Moorthy Jeganathan over 2 years ago in InterSystems IRIS Ideas Contest

Optional "Green Mode" Configuration Setting for IRIS

Much like how cars often have a "Eco" driving mode, create an optional mode for using IRIS in a greener manner. If a user of IRIS wants to prioritize reducing their carbon footprint over performance, they should be able to do so. It's possible ...
Nelson Tarr about 3 years ago in InterSystems IRIS Ideas Contest

use Python Class Definition Syntax to create IRIS classes

Now that IRIS support Python, UDL syntax should not be the only way with SQL DDL to define/create classes in IRIS.
Sylvain Guilbaud about 3 years ago in InterSystems IRIS Ideas Contest

Interoperability Production: "Add a 'Type-to-Filter' ability in dropdown selections"

Our InterSystems HealthConnect Environment uses multiple namespaces and in those namespaces we have hundreds of components. It can be really tedious and slow to scroll though each drop down to select a component in a routing rule (targets or sourc...
Victoria Castillo about 3 years ago in InterSystems HealthShare Ideas Contest

Searchable Index of New Features

Please can you consider adding a searchable index of New Features to the Documentation/Community pages? I would like to see the version that a new feature was introduced/enhanced/formalised etc.
Paul Hurley over 3 years ago in Documentation Ideas Contest

Display UserValues contents on message property tab

UserValues are a property of every instance of EnsLib.EDI.Document objects (e.g. HL7 messages). They allow storing of e.g. Metadata alongside the message body containing the message payload. Setting of the UserValues property can be done from with...
Sebastian Thiele over 3 years ago in InterSystems IRIS for Health Ideas Contest