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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    Improve support for client-side editing in VS Code

    A way to maintain the currently connected namespace content (classes, LUTs, etc.) in sync with current file system (git repository) content. For example when moving/renaming classes or switching to another git branch.
    Robert Barbiaux over 1 year ago in Developer Experience / InterSystems Products 2 Implemented

    Introduce YAML or JSON support for IPM/ZPM module description

    Currently IPM/ZPM is being described in module.xml files. Let's introduce YAML(preferred) or JSON support as well! It's more readable less wordy and easier to comprehend and maintain
    Evgeny Shvarov over 1 year ago in Developer Experience / InterSystems IRIS 0 Community Opportunity

    Drag and drop web &mobile UI

    Previously Intersystems zen framework which was very helpful to easily generate the web and mobile UI. Proposal : drag and drop web & mobile framework Problems : who are all explaining intersystems IRIS thinking it is capable of interoperabili...
    Veerarajan Karunanithi over 1 year ago in Developer Experience / InterSystems IRIS 0 Community Opportunity

    iristerminal connect securely with IRIS running on Linux hosts via SSH

    Window's utility, iristerminal, can only connect to IRIS running on Linux hosts with telnet protocol. telnet is not considered secure as all communication is in plaintext. Most organisations do not permit the use of telnet on Linux hosts. Secure c...
    Phillip Wu over 1 year ago in Developer Experience / InterSystems IRIS 3 Planned

    Update Message Viewer Search to automatically set the end time to current time at search initiation.

    Currently when I run a search over an indexed value, if I use a blank end date/time or for an end date/time that is in the future, my search will take too long to return results and error as it appears to be searching of messages that are coming i...
    Victoria Castillo over 1 year ago in Developer Experience / InterSystems Products 0 Future consideration

    Docker-friendly naming of IRIS Containers in Repository

    It would be very helpful if the naming of the Community Edition IRIS containers in the Container Repository followed and adhered to a Docker-friendly convention. There are two parts to this: 1) Include a "latest version" Container. There used to b...
    Rob Tweed about 1 year ago in Developer Experience / InterSystems IRIS 5 Future consideration

    IRIS Audit Database: Finding Needles in the Haystack and Seeing the Forest for the Trees

    Motivating question: Can you look at [IRIS-based internal application] and see if anything unusual happened [while there was possibly an intruder on the network]? In theory, the IRIS database would help to provide an answer. In practice, this is a...
    Timothy Leavitt over 4 years ago in Developer Experience 1 Community Opportunity

    Distributed Work Manager

    Imagine Distributed Work Manager (DWMgr) that can: Call methods or $$-functions in background on any reachable IRIS server (e.g. on Asynchronous or Failover Mirror Member), so called target server, pushing all necessary input data in local or glob...
    Alexey Maslov over 1 year ago in Developer Experience / InterSystems IRIS 9 Community Opportunity

    Access Saved MessageViewer Searches across namespaces

    While the ability to save a MessageViewer Search in one namespace is helpful, it would be even better if we could access these saved searches to different namespaces. Right now the only way to do that is to open the Saved search in the namespace w...
    Stella Ticker over 1 year ago in Developer Experience / InterSystems IRIS for Health 0 Future consideration

    AI analysis of error logs

    AI analysis of server error logs to suggest possible issues/solutions and categorize them to generate a daily report. Github Copilot and similar AI engines can provide useful analysis of errors for popular programming languages, it may just need b...
    Jiayan Xiang over 1 year ago in Developer Experience / Generative AI 0 Community Opportunity