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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    Visual programming language

    Wouldn't it be so nice to have a graphical programming language for all Intersystems' tools? Specially designed for people who think visually or are from bussiness areas or are being attracted from languages such as Scratch?
    Yone Moreno over 3 years ago in InterSystems Products 2 Will not implement

    Interoperability Wizard

    Should be possible to build a basic production or process based on simple options. For instance if I just want to import a CSV file and populate a generated class then all I need to supply is a name and a file source.
    David Underhill over 3 years ago in InterSystems IRIS 5 Will not implement

    Dark Mode for Studio!

    I know there are ways to customize colors in Options, but I seem to not be able to dial it in right. Other IDEs Ive used have a native nice looking dark mode so Id like to see that implemented.
    Shaun Norum over 3 years ago in InterSystems IRIS 7 Will not implement

    Using OpenSSH Key for Authentication in IRIS on System based accounts

    For internal IRIS accounts like Admin, _system, etc... could we incorporate so mechanism to use encryption keys for Authentication instead of using passwords. We have written a couple of shell scripts that login via Terminal and execute EnableConf...
    Scott Roth over 2 years ago in InterSystems IRIS 5 Will not implement

    Binary index implementation

    The bitmap index is calculated for each node, so I think it will be used as a line. By capturing this as a plane on the horizontal and vertical axes and converting it into a binary image, if it can be processed like image composition or black and ...
    Akio Hashimoto over 2 years ago in InterSystems IRIS 14 Will not implement

    Adding version control and branches per project in IRIS

    When creating a project in IRIS and adding the classes corresponding to that project, it would be nice to be able to initialize a repository in GIT with the project files and to be able to manage the branches and commit/push the code. In response ...
    Joan PĂ©rez over 2 years ago in InterSystems IRIS for Health 6 Will not implement

    Specific cache buffers per DB

    Today, if we want to make sure a specific database is more in-memory than others, we can built is as a 16K or 32K block size (while all others are the default 8K block size) and then assign an amount of "cache buffers" to 16K block DBs. I would li...
    Yaron Munz over 2 years ago in InterSystems IRIS 5 Will not implement

    TWAIN interface to IRIS

    The request https://community.intersystems.com/post/twain-interface-cache-application
    Evgeny Shvarov about 4 years ago in InterSystems IRIS 2 Will not implement

    HTML 5/Node.js documentation generator app

    maybe with python
    Evgeny Shvarov about 4 years ago in InterSystems IRIS 1 Will not implement

    Improve Bracket Colors in Embedded SQL on VSC

    It would be extremely helpful if, when using the InterSystems theme on Visual Studio Code, the bracket colors displayed in Embedded SQL were less confusing. In the screenshot I took this morning, you can clearly see pairs of blue, red, and yellow ...
    Pietro Di Leo over 1 year ago in InterSystems IRIS 2 Will not implement