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.

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    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

    Bare minimum start of IRIS for docker build

    During docker build, it's useless to start full functional IRIS, it would be enough to start just bare minimally, do not start the internal web server, ECP, and so on. Just only staff enough to build a code and make some changes in settings.
    Dmitry Maslennikov over 3 years ago in Initial Developer Experience / InterSystems IRIS 0 Ideas Contest

    Private Variables

    Provide variables that don't appear in the regular symbol table. Example: Start a server process and provide a Private Key. As long as the process runs, its value is held in memory. We don't want anyone to snoop around the Management Portal or an ...
    Herman Slagman almost 2 years ago in InterSystems IRIS 6 Ideas Contest

    Add Source control for all the IRIS interoperability components

    Currently there is no source control available for different components of the Interoperability production. There is a tool git-source-control that helps with some components, e.g. production itself , but business rules editor doesn't have such a ...
    Evgeny Shvarov about 3 years ago in Developer Experience / InterSystems IRIS 0 Ideas Contest

    Easier Navigation in Management Portal: Shortcuts, Recent Pages, Search bar

    It takes quite a few steps to go to where you need to go in the Management Portal. If the site has UCR installed, then that number skyrockets. I have looked into if there's a way to easily create a more easily navigable set of links in the managem...
    Chi Nguyen-Rettig almost 2 years ago in Initial Developer Experience / InterSystems Products 0 Ideas Contest

    Adding Process Start Date and Time

    As part of various type of monitoring. It is good to have process start date and time in process details in SMP and in the system process table.
    Sundara Moorthy Jeganathan almost 2 years ago in InterSystems IRIS 0 Ideas Contest

    Add ability to dismount DB from the System>Database Screen

    Add ability to dismount DB from the System>Database Screen. You currently have to access the name in order to dismount the database. Cache used to allow us to do it from the selection screen.
    Martha (Perspecta) Rodriguez about 1 year ago in Developer Experience / InterSystems IRIS 0 Ideas Contest

    Open source Parser for ObjectScript

    Open source parser driven by InterSystems, required by many types of projects, which could be implemented then by community. Linters, Syntax Analyzers, Security Scans and so on are require parser for ObjectScript Language Server in VSCode is awful...
    Dmitry Maslennikov over 3 years ago in Developer Experience / InterSystems IRIS 1 Ideas Contest

    Optional "Green Mode" Configuration Setting for IRIS

    Much like how cars often have a "Eco" driving mode, create an optional mode for using IRIS in a greener manner. If a user of IRIS wants to prioritize reducing their carbon footprint over performance, they should be able to do so. It's possible ...
    Nelson Tarr over 2 years ago in InterSystems IRIS 0 Ideas Contest

    use Python Class Definition Syntax to create IRIS classes

    Now that IRIS support Python, UDL syntax should not be the only way with SQL DDL to define/create classes in IRIS.
    Sylvain Guilbaud over 2 years ago in InterSystems IRIS 4 Ideas Contest