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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    Refactoring in VsCode

    In VsCode (As in old Studio) there is juste one refactoring possibility : extract in method. I think that refactoring functions are important in producing clean code, because refactoring without dedicated function is too long, so not done.
    Pierre LaFay about 2 years ago in Developer Experience / InterSystems IRIS 3 Ideas Contest

    Differentiating System-Defined vs. User-Defined Web Applications in IRIS

    1️⃣ Description of the idea Introduce a new boolean property in the Security.Applications class, such as IsSystemApp, to clearly identify whether a web application is system-defined (created by IRIS such as /api/atelier , /api/docdb , /api/healths...
    Ashok Kumar T 8 months ago in Developer Experience / InterSystems Products 0 Needs review

    API to display patches applied

    It is almost impossible to find whether and what patch(es) were applied to a given instance. When working with customer systems, this is critical to know as patches may have big impact on outcomes.
    Daniel Kutac 11 months ago in Developer Experience / InterSystems Products 5 Planned

    UI improvements to DTL Editor

    I'd like several improvements to the DTL editor I'd like to have a visual clue to know if a property is marked as required, both in the source object and the targer object. If a property is required in the target object I would like to know that I...
    Stephen Canzano 11 months ago in Developer Experience / InterSystems IRIS 1 Future consideration

    SystemCheck like Utility for System Administrators

    The idea is IRIS instance will generate a human-readable summary that highlights whether the system is configured according to InterSystems best practices. Key configuration checks might include: Are Large Pages enabled? Is the Maximum Per-Process...
    Abdul Manan 9 months ago in Developer Experience / InterSystems IRIS 1 Done by Community

    Extending an open source LLM to support efficient code generation in intersystems technology

    Description of the idea Currently, source code generating LLMs generate ObjectScript/BPL/DTL/PEX/SQL/MDX/CSP/XML for Productions/BI and Embedded Python code in a limited and/or inaccurate manner. InterSystems could specialize an already trained op...
    Yuri Marx 9 months ago in Developer Experience / InterSystems IRIS 0 Planned

    IRIS and ZPM(Open Exchange) integration

    Is it possible to integrate IRIS admin panel and OpenExchange, so people could see and install the apps just from there? Like you can install plugins in other products.
    Elena E over 3 years ago in Developer Experience / InterSystems IRIS 4 Community Opportunity

    Train a Large Language Model for a Development AI like GitHub Copilot on ISC

    Train an AI coding assistant like GitHub Copilot on Intersystems documentation, class Reference, Community Content and Learning Center content for ObjectScript, CSP, DTL, BPL, rulesets, etc. If it can be done on an existing assistant like Copilot ...
    Stefan Cronje about 2 years ago in Developer Experience / Generative AI 2 Community Opportunity

    Support UUID v7 as IdKey

    RFC 9562 defines UUID v7, as a timestamp based universally unique identifier (https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9562.html#name-uuid-version-7). Supporting this type of UUID as the IdKey of persistent classes may have multiple advantages: The ID ...
    Attila Toth 3 months ago in Developer Experience / InterSystems IRIS 1 Will not implement

    IRIS Payer SNIP Validation Studio: Fast, accurate X12 compliance with partner guide overlays

    Summary Real-time and batch X12 HIPAA SNIP validation (Levels 1–7) with payer implementation guide overlays inside the IRIS Management Portal—boosting first-pass acceptance and accelerating partner onboarding. Customer value 8–15% lift in first-...
    Tirthankar Bachhar 3 months ago in Developer Experience / Generative AI / InterSystems IRIS 0 Needs review