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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AI Digital Twin & Safe Replay Studio: One‑click production clone, anonymized traffic replay, and “what‑if” simulation

Problem Changes to productions (new DTLs, rules, adapters, timeouts, upgrades) are risky because test environments rarely mirror real traffic, partner quirks, or peak volumes. Reproducing an incident or validating a partner change requires man...
Tirthankar Bachhar 5 months ago in Developer Experience / Generative AI / InterSystems IRIS Needs review

AI Log Analytics & Predictive Anomaly Detection for Interoperability

Problem Operational issues (bad data, unusual traffic spikes, rising error rates) are discovered too late, after queues back up or downstream systems fail. Current Event Log, Message Viewer, and Visual Trace are excellent for investigation, bu...
Tirthankar Bachhar 5 months ago in Developer Experience / Generative AI / InterSystems IRIS Needs review

AI Interface Builder (AskISC): Generate full Productions from specs or Excel

Problem Implementing new interfaces still takes many hours: picking the right adapters, scaffolding Business Service/Process/Operation classes, authoring Rule Sets, and writing DTLs. Specs often live in Excel, emails, or PDFs and must be translate...
Tirthankar Bachhar 5 months ago in Initial Developer Experience / InterSystems IRIS Needs review

Implement "Search in file" in Visual Studio Code for files in IRIS server

In the old Studio using ctrl+shift+f you were able to search text inside the files located on the server. This functionality is missed in Visual Studio Code and would be really useful.
Luis Angel Pérez Ramos 7 months ago in InterSystems Resources for Developers Needs review

Binding IP Address to SOAP Operations

If you are running a mirrored environment and using a VIP, sometimes the VIP has an assigned NAT. Specifying "Local Interface" or binding the request to a specified value is helpful for setting up a Firewall rule to allow the connection to happen.
Scott Roth 11 months ago in InterSystems Products Needs review

Add FDN Tag within InterSystems Developer Community

It would be nice to tag FDN related articles under HealthShare.
Scott Roth 6 months ago in Developer Community Needs review

Add Form Definition Notation (FDN) validation to VS Code Extension

It would be nice if the VS Code Extension for InterSystems could validate the Form Definition Notation (FDN) format so we can understand the breakdown in defining forms within vs code class files. Right now, it is trial/error if I update the Class...
Scott Roth 6 months ago in Developer Experience / InterSystems HealthShare Needs review

Implement support for Apache Flink CDC.

Apache Flink CDC is capable of synchronizing data between sources and destinations from transaction log files (Oracle logminer, MySQL binfile, etc.).The idea is to implement support for InterSystems IRIS using the IRIS Journal API.
Yuri Marx 3 months ago in Developer Experience / InterSystems IRIS Needs review

Message Viewer - Search by PatientID shortcut

Most of the time, when using the Message Viewer in Health Connect, I need to search by PatientID for fault finding or analytical purposes. It would be handy if there was a field already on the Message Viewer page to search by PatientID, instead of...
Lewis Houlden 6 months ago in Developer Experience / InterSystems IRIS for Health Needs review

Differentiating System-Defined vs. User-Defined Web Applications in IRIS

1️⃣ Description of the idea Introduce a new boolean property in the Security.Applications class, such as IsSystemApp, to clearly identify whether a web application is system-defined (created by IRIS such as /api/atelier , /api/docdb , /api/healths...
Ashok Kumar T 10 months ago in Developer Experience / InterSystems Products Needs review