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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    Add a debugger for Embedded Python in Visual Studio Code

    Recently, Embedded Python was introduced as a programming language alongside ObjectScript. At the same time, the InterSystems Studio IDE has been deprecated for the newer and multilanguage Visual Studio Code (VSC), which is also equipped with a de...
    Pietro Di Leo almost 2 years ago in Developer Experience / InterSystems IRIS 6 Planned

    Code snippets library

    The Studio has a tab where you can add code snippets on your local machine (with a very small amount of code snippets already present). It would be nice to build a library of code snippets on the community site to perform a variety of tasks like u...
    Danny Wijnschenk over 3 years ago in Initial Developer Experience / InterSystems IRIS 14 Community Opportunity

    Interactive LLM-Powered Assistant

    The system shall provide an integrated LLM-powered assistant trained on InterSystems documentation, developer guides, and internal best practices. This assistant will allow users to ask questions in natural language, browse relevant knowledge, and...
    Hisham Yoosuf 5 months ago in Developer Community / Initial Developer Experience 0 In Progress

    Ready-to-Use VM for Learning and Experimentation

    A pre-configured virtual machine designed for onboarding new developers into our InterSystems ecosystem. This VM can include IRIS for Health, InterSystems Interoperability configurations, HMF/HL7 messaging services, TrakCare MEUI, Logi Report, Per...
    Hisham Yoosuf 5 months ago in Initial Developer Experience 2 In Progress

    Make REST API Debugger for VSCode Recognise Open API Spec

    Currently, the VSCode ObjectScript Extension pack doesn't recognise the open api spec and requires developers to fill all the fields manually for every request to the API. It'd be great if it could parse the open api spec (if it exists) and provid...
    Evgeny Shvarov 5 months ago in Developer Experience 2 Community Opportunity

    Simplify classnames calls in ObjectScript

    Currently everyone use ##class(classname).methodname() to call it. e.g. do ##class(Sample).ClassMethod() This is one of the painful moments about ObjectScript for developers. Can we introduce a parallel support of more simplified way, as: #classna...
    Evgeny Shvarov over 3 years ago in Developer Experience / InterSystems IRIS 0 Ideas Contest

    Automatically Expose Interactive API Documentation

    Enable interactive API documentation automatically for web applications. 1️⃣ Description of the idea Automatically enable a default API documentation endpoint—such as /docs or /apidocs—when a new %CSP.REST-based dispatch class is created. This end...
    Ashok Kumar T 9 months ago in Initial Developer Experience / InterSystems Products 5 Community Opportunity

    Implement autosave for DTL and BPL pages

    This is a very recurrent complain from our customers, it's very common that they lose all the design implemented for a DTL/BPL after an automatic web page refresh or a session close. That would be great to have an automatic save where you can get ...
    Luis Angel Pérez Ramos over 2 years ago in Developer Experience / InterSystems Products 5 Planned

    Add a "mentor mode" to Management portal

    Introduce an optional "mentor mode" for the Management portal (switched on by default for new installations) that detects common setup mistakes / best practices, and provides a pop-up to draw attention to them. For example, if the user sets %All i...
    Iryna Mykhailova 5 months ago in Initial Developer Experience / InterSystems IRIS 0 Future consideration

    DeepSee.KPI enhancements

    There are actually three suggestions, but they all relate to KPIs (link to what these are below). %DeepSee.KPI https://docs.intersystems.com/iris20252/csp/documatic/%25CSP.Documatic.cls?LIBRARY=%25SYS&CLASSNAME=%25DeepSee.AbstractKPI 1. Provid...
    Dmitrij Vladimirov 5 months ago in Developer Experience / InterSystems IRIS BI 0 Needs review