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.

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    CI/CD support

    Several developer and partner organisations are embracing a continuous integration/continuous delivery practices of software development. There have been several examples in how to achieve this with IRIS, and at some point this requires scripts o...
    Steve Pisani over 3 years ago in InterSystems Products 5 Will not implement

    Improve Production Migration From TST to PRD

    While I understand the current export/import process to move build from a test env to production, it would be nice if there was an automatic function that would migrate from test to production and include all dependencies like data lookup tables, ...
    Corinne Ridgley over 3 years ago in InterSystems IRIS 4 Will not implement

    Database Cache (Global Buffers) needs to be optimized

    IRIS for health version 2023 sets Database Cache (Global Buffers) to 25% of physical memory by default, which is not secure and can be quite large if a server group uses shared memory. At the same time, this setting is very important, if a more ap...
    王喆 👀 over 2 years ago in InterSystems Products 3 Will not implement

    HTTPS for SMP (REST api calls) support + documentation with standard apache

    IRIS (and Cache) were always shipped with standalone (with a very simple configuration) apache web server for non-production use (SMP, develop REST API calls etc.). This apache web server supports (out of the box) only HTTP. Large organizations us...
    Yaron Munz over 3 years ago in InterSystems IRIS 2 Will not implement

    Why use storage for an index that has never been used?

    If an index has never been used (or not for a long time), is it really necessary to use hard drive storage for the index? After a sufficiently long time has passed, it seems like it would be possible to purge storage of index data. The index would...
    Nelson Tarr over 2 years ago in InterSystems IRIS 6 Will not implement

    Advanced real-time data processing optimization for InterSystems IRIS

    In this Idea-A-Thon, I propose to develop innovative technology that enables advanced optimization of real-time data processing for InterSystems IRIS. The central idea is to implement a new hardware acceleration module based on FPGA (Field-Program...
    Yone Moreno over 2 years ago in InterSystems IRIS 0 Will not implement

    Add workflow task as Activity in Business Process Designer

    To create workflows easily from the BP designer screen would be really helpful to have a specific activity with the required info to create a TaskRequest.
    Luis Angel Pérez Ramos almost 2 years ago in InterSystems IRIS 0 Will not implement

    Add polling for changes to the VSCode extension(s)

    Currently, if you edit code client-side in VSCode the local copy of any routines/classes remain static.If someone else makes a change, via Studio or another VSCode session etc..., then that change doesn't update my local client copy or flag that a...
    David Underhill about 1 year ago in InterSystems IRIS 1 Will not implement

    The ability to export current settings to a %Installer Manifest

    For easy deployment (cloning) of systems, it would be convenient to export selected settings such as Users, Namespaces, Databases, SSL Configs, etc to a %Installer Manifest
    Herman Slagman over 3 years ago in InterSystems IRIS 4 Will not implement

    Common Data Modelling

    As part of integration, data fabrics, or organisation-wide analytics, developers have to pull in (or reach out and retrieve) data from disparate data sources. The typical normalise and build a common/canonical data model of tables and fields that...
    Steve Pisani over 3 years ago in InterSystems Products 5 Will not implement