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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Dump SQL tables

we need a way to dump SQL tables as DDL and even DML, to make it possible to migrate tables with data to another server or IRIS Cloud SQL
Evgeny Shvarov about 3 years ago in InterSystems IRIS Already exists

Java Hibernate support for IRIS

There were some support for Caché, but it's outdated already. And we need support for IRIS.
Dmitry Maslennikov about 3 years ago in InterSystems IRIS Done by Community

Add legitimate special symbol-separator for ObjectScript variable names

If I have a meaningful variable in languages like Python it is very convenient to use _ as a word separator. E.g. this_is_an_sql_that_causes_an_error="SELECT * FROM TABLE" in IRIS there are no special symbols allowed as separators. So the variable...
Evgeny Shvarov about 3 years ago in InterSystems IRIS Will not implement

allow cancel "Pending approval"

After a major Quality Check & Fix action I have a bunch of packages waiting.they don't get approved in a single run.So I prefer to reduce it to 1 by day. And CANCEL the other requests for approval.
Robert Cemper about 3 years ago in Open Exchange Implemented

provide a switch to Hide/Unhide posts. or fix Re-Publish

based on actual experience I had this idea.I found some of my old posts filled with broken URL linksto fix these errors would take time, that I hadn't at that momentmissing a HIDE switch I just unpublished it.Re-Publishing marked it as NEW. No pro...
Robert Cemper about 3 years ago in Developer Community Implemented

Traceroutes to Java Gateway Display

We have a lot of Connections to External Databases using JDBC and the Java Gateways within the Interoperability engine. When you Click on those Services or Operations that use the Java Gateway Service it doesn't show a connection to the Java Gatew...
Scott Roth about 3 years ago in Developer Experience / InterSystems IRIS Planned

On Developer Community put animated GIFs behind a play/pause button

For animated GIFs it would be neat if the DC software could use a technique such as this to automatically add a play/pause button: https://codepen.io/chriscoyier/pen/pogQJER That Codepen sample plays such GIFs by default unless user's browser pref...
John Murray about 3 years ago in Developer Community Implemented

Community in numbers on a GEO Dashboard

The community page has a section community in numbers with total of members, likes, comments, views and posts. I would like to see these numbers represented by member/author country. So in a globe map I can see the numbers by country when hover th...
Yuri Marx about 3 years ago in Developer Community Will not implement

Unit testing in VSCode

A unit testing user interface in VSCODE, similar to what is available for Java or .NET (JUnit, xUnit,…), for use in initial or test driven development.
Robert Barbiaux about 3 years ago in InterSystems Products Done by Community

Saving Searched Criteria within Message Search

I tend to create Saved Searches and save them in the Message Viewer for the rest of my team and myself to help search for messages in troubleshooting systems. I find if I need to update a Saved Search there is not a good way to pull down existing ...
Scott Roth about 3 years ago in InterSystems IRIS Planned