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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    Identify redundant indices

    Over time, application developer define indices to improve their query performance. Over time, it's possible that some query definition may not be used and therefore (a) consume processing time during filing and (b) consume diskspace, journal sp...
    Steve Pisani over 2 years ago in InterSystems Products 4 Already exists

    Fold code on loops and If's on studio

    There's a tiny box before every "ClassMethod" line that folds the entire method so that only the signature of the method shows. I would like to have that same feature for other code blocks, such as loops and If's
    Heloisa Paiva almost 3 years ago in InterSystems Products 2 Already exists

    Full Code Debugger

    Hi, as a Developer it is very challenging to troubleshoot full code from beginning to end. We find we have to create test code snippets to use the debugger. Please consider a more robust debugging interface where we can step through each line and ...
    Carmelita Resh about 3 years ago in Documentation 1 Already exists

    Option when purging messages also include child objects

    When message purging occurs, only the top level object is deleted as part of regular data purging. This leaves child objects of the purged objects orphaned. There are ways to handle this in code, by overriding OnDelete, but it would be preferred t...
    Lewis Houlden over 1 year ago in InterSystems IRIS 7 Already exists

    Cache Journal Switch Schedule

    Add the facility for journals to not only be switched on size but also on a schedule either every hour or half hour. This will allow the system to be restore and the journals replayed upto a fixed time, rather than taking incremental/differential ...
    Gary Holt over 3 years ago in InterSystems IRIS 2 Already exists

    Native RPC API for ObjectScript

    We have a full featured API for access globals via ECP, but still have no "standard" way to do RPC. In Cache it was possible with %Net.RemoteConnection.cls. Having been removed from IRIS, this class is still not substituted with some clear API. By...
    Alexey Maslov over 3 years ago in InterSystems IRIS 2 Already exists

    Class Documentation - Add Comments

    Add an option to include tags for comments in a Class Definition, that will show up in the generated Class Documentation. E.g. <DESCRIPTION>, <AUTHOR>
    Paul Hurley over 3 years ago in InterSystems IRIS 2 Already exists

    Preventive Health with ChatIRIS: Integrating InterSystems IRIS for Enhanced Patient Engagement

    ChatIRIS Health Coach , a GPT-4 based agent that leverages the Health Belief Model as a psychological framework to craft empathetic replies. Why is it useful? In Singapore, less than 1 in 4 go for annual vaccinations. Only a third of eligible adul...
    Crystal Cheong almost 2 years ago in InterSystems IRIS 1 Already exists

    Vector search for knowledge graphs

    The idea is to help clinicians and researchers easily get an overview of the landscape of clinical research trials in a certain field. They just have to input a general description of a disease, such as "A disease that affects young patients, gene...
    Tanguy Vansnick almost 2 years ago in InterSystems IRIS for Health 1 Already exists

    Add share functionality in community publications

    It would be very helpful to allow the community users to share community publications with social webs as LinkedIn, twitter/X or Facebook directly from de publication.
    Luis Angel PĂ©rez Ramos almost 2 years ago in Developer Community 1 Already exists