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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Developer Experience

    Add support for Markdown in class documentation

    Allow for Markdown to be used in class documentation for easier formatting. This includes the Class Reference Page that should support it, as well as the documentation preview in VS Code.
    Stefan Cronje about 2 years ago in Developer Experience / InterSystems Products 3 Community Opportunity

    Visual trace contents in JSON format

    The message contents in the interoperability productions are visualized as default XML view. JSON is also a vital part of the works. So, Add JSON as an additional built in format in message viewer. If it's implemented in IRIS application It will b...
    Ashok Kumar T over 2 years ago in Developer Experience / InterSystems Products 3 Ideas Contest

    IRIS for Health Blockchain connector

    To develop a Connector enabling the seamless export of health data from Intersystems IRIS for Health to a blockchain repository, empowering patients with control over their own health data. This solution ensures data integrity, transparency, and s...
    Johni Fisher over 1 year ago in Developer Experience / InterSystems IRIS 2 Community Opportunity

    Add link to DTL Editor For Subtransforms

    A fairly recent change was introduced where selecting a DTL from within the Rule Editor presented the user with a button to open the Data Transformation Builder Editor (DTL Editor) which took the user straight to the DTL. However, if you open a DT...
    Julian Matthews almost 2 years ago in Developer Experience / InterSystems Products 0 Future consideration

    Time in Queue of Messages

    It's importantent to have an information of messages (Ens.MessageHeader) logging the time of it in Queue. For example: When you call some BO and your message keep in queue fro a little, after it is processed. you have ONLY TimeCreated and TimeProc...
    Luis Petkovicz about 2 years ago in Developer Experience / InterSystems IRIS 1 Future consideration

    Configurable processing of messages

    When dealing with changes, it would be great if you could configure a business process or operation to only process N number of messages. We are regularly asked to only allow a few messages through to enable a supplier to verify everything is ok t...
    Lewis Houlden 11 months ago in Developer Experience / InterSystems HealthShare 1 Ideas Contest

    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 about 2 years ago in Developer Experience / InterSystems IRIS 0 Future consideration

    AI Digital Twin & Safe Replay Studio: One‑click production clone, anonymized traffic replay, and “what‑if” simulation

    Problem Changes to productions (new DTLs, rules, adapters, timeouts, upgrades) are risky because test environments rarely mirror real traffic, partner quirks, or peak volumes. Reproducing an incident or validating a partner change requires man...
    Tirthankar Bachhar 5 months ago in Developer Experience / Generative AI / InterSystems IRIS 0 Needs review

    AI Log Analytics & Predictive Anomaly Detection for Interoperability

    Problem Operational issues (bad data, unusual traffic spikes, rising error rates) are discovered too late, after queues back up or downstream systems fail. Current Event Log, Message Viewer, and Visual Trace are excellent for investigation, bu...
    Tirthankar Bachhar 5 months ago in Developer Experience / Generative AI / InterSystems IRIS 0 Needs review

    Integrate InterSystems IRIS with SQLancer for Automated SQL Testing and Validation

    SQLancer is a tool to automatically test Database Management Systems (DBMSs) in order to find bugs in their implementation. That is, it finds bugs in the code of the DBMS implementation, rather than in queries written by the user. SQLancer has fou...
    Dmitry Maslennikov 9 months ago in Developer Experience / InterSystems IRIS 1 Done by Community