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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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 about 4 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 8 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 Thangavel over 1 year ago in InterSystems Products Will not implement

Update $ZV to include Health Connect info

A lot of times when working with WRC and I do a zwrite $ZV for tickets I get the following that does not contain the HealthShare Health Connect version. USER>w $ZV IRIS for UNIX (Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 for x86-64) 2024.1 (Build 267_2U) Tue...
Scott Roth over 2 years ago in InterSystems HealthShare Will not implement

Run rules chain by using Rule Editor without DTL

We may run the rules chain by using Rule Editor with DTL, which is applicable if regarding protocols-transformation and fields-mapping from sources to targets It is expected to run the rules chain by using Rule Editor without DTL, namely against a...
William Liu over 2 years ago in InterSystems IRIS for Health Will not implement

Multidimensional vector search

Hope vector search can add high-dimensional vectors, such as certain image feature extraction using three-dimensional arrays
xuanyou du over 2 years ago in InterSystems HealthShare 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

BPL, DTL and Rulesets in JSON and/or YAML

Sometimes when working with large rulesets, DTL, and BPL, it is easier to edit it in VSCode as XML than on the visual editors. XML is not the most legible format. If we could edit these as JSON or YAML, it would make editing it a lot easier. Not s...
Stefan Cronje over 2 years ago in InterSystems IRIS Will not implement

Database Cache (Global Buffers) needs to be optimized

IRIS for health version 2023 sets Database Cache (Global Buffers) to 25% of physical memory by default, which is not secure and can be quite large if a server group uses shared memory. At the same time, this setting is very important, if a more ap...
王喆 👀 about 3 years ago in InterSystems Products Will not implement

Why use storage for an index that has never been used?

If an index has never been used (or not for a long time), is it really necessary to use hard drive storage for the index? After a sufficiently long time has passed, it seems like it would be possible to purge storage of index data. The index would...
Nelson Tarr about 3 years ago in InterSystems IRIS Will not implement