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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    Light version InterSystems IRIS

    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...
    Andre Larsen Barbosa over 2 years ago in Initial Developer Experience / InterSystems IRIS 4 Done by Community

    Add a compiler flag to disable accidental code formatting

    Add a compiler flag to relax or prevent the code from auto-formatting whenever a source file is imported and thus compiled, the reasoning for that is for preventing irrelevant changes from showing up in the source control such as: argument multi-l...
    Rubens Silva about 2 months ago in InterSystems IRIS 1 Will not implement

    Allow to the community to choose one functionality developed by them to be included in the standard

    InterSystems promote the development of functionalities that the standard doesn't have. Would be great if each year the community vote for the best implementation to be included in the core of the product. It would show that the work of the develo...
    Luis Angel PĂ©rez Ramos about 1 month ago in Developer Community 0 In Progress

    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 3 months ago in Initial Developer Experience / InterSystems IRIS 0 In Progress

    Publish the InterSystems IRIS Native SDK for Node.js on npm

    People building Node.js apps commonly use npm as the place they get packages they depend on. Not being able to get the files needed for InterSystems IRIS Native API for Node.js from there adds friction which probably results in some lost opportuni...
    John Murray about 3 years ago in InterSystems IRIS 3 Implemented

    Add an "Add Server to VS Code" Option to System Tray Icon

    There could be an option from the system tray icon to add a server to Visual Studio Code. When clicked, it could add the selected server to the InterSystems Server Manager extension of Code by editing the "intersystems.servers" node of settings.js...
    David Hockenbroch 4 months ago in Initial Developer Experience / InterSystems Products 0 Future consideration

    Provide a label DEPRECATED for OEX packages

    It would be fair to signal to other users of OEX that there is no intention to do any maintenance for a package. Also, a kind of warning if it is used. Actually, the only option is to unpublish it. Just letting it hang around and ignoring Issues a...
    Robert Cemper 3 months ago in Open Exchange 0 Needs review

    Superset language for ObjectScript

    With the coming of dynamic objects I feel that at this point we need something that ressembles TypeScript. So my suggestion is for having a superset language that can be transpiled to either classes or routines, whichever fits the bill. The idea i...
    Rubens Silva about 2 months ago in InterSystems IRIS 0 Needs review

    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 4 months ago in Initial Developer Experience / InterSystems IRIS 2 Already exists

    Introduce a whatsapp adapter for IRIS Interoperability

    WhatsApp is getting a number one channel for communication, even for business. It'd be great to have an adapter, BO, and BS to support WhatsApp
    Evgeny Shvarov 2 months ago in InterSystems IRIS 0 Community Opportunity