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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    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 26 days ago in InterSystems IRIS 1 Will not implement

    Enhance CREATE DATABASE by adding WITH INTEROP and WITH ANALYTICS options

    While it's very convenient to use the CREATE DATABASE command to quickly create a namespace with two databases suffixed with D for data and C for code, it would also be useful to add options to automatically make this namespace immediately availab...
    Sylvain Guilbaud 22 days ago in InterSystems IRIS 1 Will not implement

    Add a compiler flag to disable accidental code formatting

    Add a compiler flag to relax or prevent the code from auto-formatting whenever a source file is imported and thus compiled, the reasoning for that is for preventing irrelevant changes from showing up in the source control such as: argument multi-l...
    Rubens Silva about 2 months ago in InterSystems IRIS 1 Will not implement

    Stand-alone ObjectScript Runtime for Containers

    Would it be possible to create a slim ObjectScript runtime that could be used to run arbitrary ObjectScript code in containers to achieve ObjectScript-based microservices? This would be great for folks who are very familiar with ObjectScript alrea...
    Aaron (PSI) Jaeger 6 months ago in InterSystems Resources for Developers 2 Will not implement

    E-learning for job

    A learning platform for Caché where, as the student learns, they score and become available for job vacancies according to the score suggested by the company that makes the position available.
    Andre Larsen Barbosa over 3 years ago in Learning 4 Will not implement

    Command detector through voice or keywords

    Taking advantage of artificial intelligence and many other tools that aim to make everyone's lives easier, I believe that many people may have difficulty converting all their knowledge of programming logic and/or business rules (in various busines...
    Andre Larsen Barbosa over 1 year ago in Ideas Portal 2 Will not implement

    See globals size in Management Portal.

    In System > Globals it would be helpful to see the globals sizes, and be able to sort them by this new column.
    Sylvain Guilbaud almost 2 years ago in InterSystems IRIS 3 Will not implement

    Macros in Classes

    Currently, there are two possibilities to use macros in a class 1) with the "Include" keyword at the beginning of a class definition 2) in EACH (class)metod definition one or more macros can be defined with the "define", "def1arg", etc. keywords...
    Julius Kavay 9 months ago in InterSystems Products 2 Will not implement

    Break down IRIS in microservices

    The objective is to decompose the IRIS monolith into independently scalable microservices within a cloud-native architecture. For instance, the OAuth2 server could be scaled independently without deploying additional full IRIS instances. These mic...
    Dorian Tetu 8 months ago in InterSystems IRIS 1 Will not implement

    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 8 months ago in InterSystems Products 1 Will not implement