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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Make the debugger skip classes without generated code

There's just no use on having the debugger jump inside classes that don't have generated code (such as %DynamicObject, %Api.Atelier, %RegisteredObject etc), causing it to fail and make the whole debugging procedure a hell. Mind you that while we c...
Rubens Silva 16 days ago in InterSystems IRIS Needs review

Add Category to Extended Criteria in Message Viewer

Oftentimes when issues with real-time integrations are reported to Integration Analysts, troubleshooting the integration is more complex than simply searching across one interface. For example, if an order is missing, we know that many target appl...
Jennifer Dennis about 2 months ago in Developer Experience / InterSystems IRIS Interoperability Needs review

Add SQL Query History

There is no way to see the history of SQL queries on a particular IRIS server. it'd be good to have for debugging and performance improvement helper. Yes, there are statements with Frozen parameters available, but sometimes one needs to see the ex...
Evgeny Shvarov 3 months ago in Developer Experience / InterSystems IRIS Needs review

Publish the InterSystems IRIS Native SDK for Node.js on npm

People building Node.js apps commonly use npm as the place they get packages they depend on. Not being able to get the files needed for InterSystems IRIS Native API for Node.js from there adds friction which probably results in some lost opportuni...
John Murray over 3 years ago in InterSystems IRIS Implemented

Add error output to %File.RemoveDirectoryTree()

The documentation for using RemoveDirectoryTree says that there is no output argument for returning a system error code. I would like to see one added, especially since the error output on other functions tends to be a %DynamicArray type which wou...
Robbie Luman about 2 months ago in Developer Experience / InterSystems IRIS Needs review

Hands-On Tutorial for Using Source Control with Git and VS Code

With all the big improvements on client-side editing, I think it would be very beneficial to add a hands-on tutorial or even a Learning Path in the Learning Portal that allows devs to navigate through the different options at the time of developin...
Juan Mota Sanchez 21 days ago in Tutorials Needs review

Create a Docker image with material for InterSystems IRIS onboarding

Getting started with InterSystems IRIS is not so easy. There are so many possibilities and for a new dev it could be confusing,and the existing documentation is sparse and not exhaustive.Moreover, ObjectScript has changed a lot over the years, so ...
Pietro Di Leo 5 months ago in Initial Developer Experience / InterSystems IRIS In Progress

Add pool size in production configuration page

Pool size used to be displayed in Production Configuration page in Management Portal in old version of Ensemble, unfortunately this (IMHO very important) information is now missing. To get the pool size you need to click in each and every host in ...
Enrico Parisi about 1 year ago in Developer Experience / InterSystems IRIS Implemented

Add an "Add Server to VS Code" Option to System Tray Icon

There could be an option from the system tray icon to add a server to Visual Studio Code. When clicked, it could add the selected server to the InterSystems Server Manager extension of Code by editing the "intersystems.servers" node of settings.js...
David Hockenbroch 6 months ago in Initial Developer Experience / InterSystems Products Future consideration

Add "where" clause to SQL Data Export in management portal

Allow user to specify a where clause when doing a data export so the export can be filtered instead of being a full dump of the specified table.
Lori Fassman 4 months ago in Developer Experience / InterSystems IRIS Needs review