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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    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 over 1 year ago in Developer Experience / InterSystems IRIS 6 Planned

    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 3 months ago in Developer Experience / InterSystems IRIS BI 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 2 months ago in Developer Experience / Generative AI / InterSystems IRIS 0 Needs review

    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

    provide a FILTER in OEX on rating by Stars given

    Reviews in OEX are always given in combination with individual stars given by the reviewer at the time of writing the review.Stars step from 0.0, 0.5, 1.0, 1.5, ... 5.0 NULL no stars means no review:The new filter may serve 3 main cases. Finding...
    Robert Cemper 3 months ago in Developer Experience / Open Exchange 1 Future consideration

    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

    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 7 months ago in Developer Experience / InterSystems IRIS 1 Done by Community

    IRIS Native JSON Schema Validator

    Native JSON schema validator classes in IRIS 1️⃣ Description of the idea Introduce native JSON Schema validator classes in IRIS that allow developers to validate JSON data against a predefined JSON Schema. This would enable built-in support for st...
    Ashok Kumar T 7 months ago in Developer Experience / InterSystems Products 2 Done by Community

    Add Form Definition Notation (FDN) validation to VS Code Extension

    It would be nice if the VS Code Extension for InterSystems could validate the Form Definition Notation (FDN) format so we can understand the breakdown in defining forms within vs code class files. Right now, it is trial/error if I update the Class...
    Scott Roth 4 months ago in Developer Experience / InterSystems HealthShare 0 Needs review

    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 9 months ago in Developer Experience / InterSystems HealthShare 1 Ideas Contest