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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    ObjectScript API to create MS Word files based on templates

    Currently, IRIS doesn't have ObjectScript functionality for creating Word files. Python or Java are required. Furthermore, even using these languages, it's a complex process that requires many lines of source code. Therefore, the idea is to use an...
    Yuri Marx 7 months ago in InterSystems IRIS 2 Done by Community

    FHIR Data Class Structures more compatable with DTL Editor

    As FHIR continues to grow, there are some customers that want to use external FHIR repositories to retrieve data from EMR's for different reasons. In our case we wanted to retrieve Patient data from our EMR to help with cut down on the number of P...
    Scott Roth 7 months ago in InterSystems Products 0 Needs review

    "Run in Postman" Button for IRIS for Health FHIR REST APIs

    New healthcare devs face a barrier when testing out FHIR related stuff and the gap between reading documentation and actually testing an API call is too wide. A "Run in Postman" button solves this with pre-built FHIR examples as collections. So, N...
    Vishal Pallerla 4 months ago in Initial Developer Experience / InterSystems FHIR Server 0 Future consideration

    LIMIT OFFSET support for IRIS SQL

    LIMIT OFFSET feature is widely used by other databases. And it is a real pain at the moment to achieve something similar on IRIS SQL. Django ORM for instance requires this for pagination, and there is no way to make it some other way
    Dmitry Maslennikov over 3 years ago in InterSystems IRIS 4 Implemented

    Career-oriented learning paths

    There is no second opinion InterSystems is having a great community and a learning portal. Out of the learning paths available in the below link, I think we should have career-oriented paths. Please share your inputs https://learning.intersystems....
    Aasir Waseer over 3 years ago in Learning 1 Implemented

    Set password through environment variable

    In a continious integration processes, for some applications, for testing purposes, it's useful to run vanilla IRIS and run integration tests, for Python applications for instance And the best way to do it, is to use services feature in popular CI...
    Dmitry Maslennikov almost 3 years ago in Developer Experience / InterSystems IRIS 5 Ideas Contest

    HTML Report for UnitTest Results

    Introduce an HTML format for UnitTest results to enhance readability and presentation. 1️⃣ Description of the idea Introduce a built-in HTML output format for UnitTest results in IRIS. This enhancement would generate a structured, visually intuiti...
    Ashok Kumar T 7 months ago in InterSystems Products 1 Done by Community

    Best practices in a documentation chapter

    I think it would be interesting to address in a chapter of the documentation good practices both in programming and in the design of persistent classes. It would be ideal to present some code examples. Some examples to illustrate my point: How to ...
    Pierre LaFay about 2 years ago in Documentation 1 Ideas Contest

    Introduce WITH into IRIS SQL engine

    Introduce the support of WITH functionality in IRIS SQL
    Evgeny Shvarov about 4 years ago in InterSystems IRIS 4 Implemented

    Displaying HL7 ACK/NCK regardless of Archive IO Setting

    The only way to HL7 ACK/NCK within the trace viewer is to ensure that Archive IO setting is set on the Business Operation. It would be nice to see these without the settings and that the setting would only write the data to the database based on t...
    Scott Roth 8 months ago in InterSystems Products 1 Needs review