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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Enhance JSON Adaptor with Case-Insensitive Field Mapping

The current JSON adaptor implementation, the property name or %JSONFIELDNAME is treated as a constant and case-sensitive when importing JSON into an object. This means the JSON key must match exactly or match with the xData Mapping. To improve fl...
Ashok Kumar T 10 months ago in InterSystems Products Will not implement

Add Search to Banner

We use the Search functionality in InterSystems HealthShare (Health Connect) to navigate around our TIE. This is only available on the Home page. It would be great if it could be part of the banner so searching is available on any screen.
Lewis Houlden over 1 year ago in InterSystems HealthShare Will not implement

Errors messages to be more clear

I find it a bit hard to understand the error, maybe error messages can be clear or trying to detect misspelling and create a more understanding of error message.
Evans Tlhako almost 2 years ago in InterSystems IRIS Will not implement

Include bar code/QR code recognition as a standard function

Zen reports, InterSystem Reports, and IRIS all have ways to generate bar codes and/or QR codes and put them on documents, but there is nothing to read them. Reading them relies on 3rd part packages and sometimes specialized hardware, depending on ...
David Hockenbroch over 2 years ago in InterSystems IRIS Will not implement

Sample code share opportunity

It would be useful to have a place to share/request sample code, a place to review or recommend code improvements, especially when someone is new to some specific InterSystems product feature and not part of big team with similar skill sets.
Mary George over 3 years ago in InterSystems Products Will not implement

CI/CD support

Several developer and partner organisations are embracing a continuous integration/continuous delivery practices of software development. There have been several examples in how to achieve this with IRIS, and at some point this requires scripts o...
Steve Pisani over 3 years ago in InterSystems Products Will not implement

Improve Production Migration From TST to PRD

While I understand the current export/import process to move build from a test env to production, it would be nice if there was an automatic function that would migrate from test to production and include all dependencies like data lookup tables, ...
Corinne Ridgley over 3 years ago in InterSystems IRIS Will not implement

HTTPS for SMP (REST api calls) support + documentation with standard apache

IRIS (and Cache) were always shipped with standalone (with a very simple configuration) apache web server for non-production use (SMP, develop REST API calls etc.). This apache web server supports (out of the box) only HTTP. Large organizations us...
Yaron Munz over 3 years ago in InterSystems IRIS Will not implement

Allow form JSON Objects with variables without parentesis

Currently ObjectScript needs developers to use parenthesis when embedding variables into JSON, e.g. we set authToken and respUser variables and return it in JSON result of a method : quit {"token":(authToken),"user":(respUser)} But it is more obvi...
Evgeny Shvarov 2 months ago in Developer Experience / InterSystems IRIS Will not implement

Compression in SQL Functions

Introduce SQL functions such as COMPRESS() and UNCOMPRESS() to facilitate data compression and decompression. 1️⃣ Description of the idea Introduce native SQL functions COMPRESS(data, algorithm) and UNCOMPRESS(data) to perform data compression a...
Ashok Kumar T 10 months ago in InterSystems Products Will not implement