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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Add Python linting to vscode when writing method in Python.

When you write a method using python you do not get any linting of the python code. This is slows down development in Python. One common mistake is bad or missing indentation which is critical in Python. While we know that there is an error the na...
Rich Taylor over 2 years ago in Developer Experience / InterSystems IRIS Community Opportunity

Support Declarative CORS Configuration in <CSPApplication>

From IRIS ≥ 2025.1, Web Application–specific CORS settings—such as CorsOrigins and CorsCredentialsAllowed—can be configured through the Management Portal. Currently, these properties are not yet supported or listed as attributes of the <CSPAppl...
Ashok Kumar Thangavel 10 months ago in InterSystems Products Needs review

Add the option to call class parameters in Embedded Python

Currently, class parameters can be called in ObjectScript in the following way: write ..#ParameterName The same construction in Embedded Python looks like this: import irisprint(iris.cls('ClassName')._GetParameter("ParameterName") Could it be simp...
Evgeny Shvarov almost 4 years ago in InterSystems IRIS Ideas Contest

A Dynamic Cheat Sheet to lookup for Common Core Functions for Reusability

When developing Region or site level codes, sometimes we tend to create our own functions to complete it; But what if there is a core function which does the same thing and you didn't know of. Below advantages can be achieved if the common core fu...
Shareek Ahamed almost 4 years ago in Initial Developer Experience / InterSystems IRIS Community Opportunity

Better handle whitespace in Management Portal Text entry

Consider the following scenarios: 1. Copying and pasting unwanted whitespace charaters from an Excel Worksheet into Integration Lookup table Keys or Values. Actual Impact: Caused a difficult to discover unwanted difference in behaviour that delaye...
Alex Woodhead almost 4 years ago in InterSystems Products Planned

Improve journal display in IRIS admin portal

When I delete a "global" and need to recover it, it's a lot of work to use the journal view page (System Operation > Journal Files). I have to click line by line and copy the content that was in the global, in addition to the message coming wit...
Rodolfo Pscheidt Jr almost 4 years ago in InterSystems IRIS Will not implement

Expand Vector Arithmetics

Enhance Vectore calculation beyond VECTOR_COSINE(),TO_VECTOR(),VECTOR_DOT_PRODUCT() I especially miss these functions: FROM_VECTOR to get the content of $ZV into a variable (JSON ?) ADD_VECTOR() for transformation. For INT and DOUBLE DiFF_VECTOR()...
Robert Cemper over 2 years ago in InterSystems IRIS Will not implement

Auto addition to Code Tables if value is not found

I would like to see if something out of the box could be added to HealthShare for when a Code Table value is not found that it is automatically added to the existing Code table. Sometimes endpoint systems add additional values that are not always ...
Scott Roth 10 months ago in InterSystems HealthShare Needs review

Better unicode support

Look at my profile name. It's time for globalization, add support for text encoding decoding methods, add official tutorials for dealing with text encodings, and possibly fix the database encoding (such as UTF-8 ).
聆严 周 almost 4 years ago in Ideas Portal Implemented

Add a chatbot to the Global Masters hub

The idea is about having a chatbot in the Global Masters community which can give insights about: new challenges, new rewards, already redeemed rewards, remaining points to redeem a reward present on the which list, new contests...
MYRIAM EL MESBAHI almost 4 years ago in Global Masters Will not implement