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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InterSystems Products

Additional filter for purging messages

It should be possible to exclude messages with an error status from being deleted when running the purge task or methods like Purge() in Ens.Util.MessagePurge, so they can be resend. A customer reports that sometimes these failed messages are purg...
Stephan Mohr 2 months ago in InterSystems IRIS Interoperability Needs review

Support for coloured banner per environment

We currently update the ZEN_Component__core.js to colour the banner for each of our environments, such as green for DEV, orange for TEST and red for LIVE. This gives us a clear indication of which environment we are working in without having to re...
Lewis Houlden about 2 months ago in InterSystems Products Planned

Add a Built-In Change History / Version Log for Data Transformations (DTL)

Right now, the DTL editor doesn't offer a way to see the change history of a Data Transformation directly within the tool. When working on complex DTLs that are edited by multiple developers over time, it would be very useful to see who changed wh...
Ricard Ferrando Paredes about 1 month ago in InterSystems IRIS Needs review

Read-only operations cockpit for InterSystems IRIS management APIs

IRIS Ops Lens is a read-only operations cockpit for InterSystems IRIS. It surfaces health metrics, monitor alerts, REST services, and OpenAPI endpoints in one place. Operators can inspect status safely without changing production data and hand off...
Aidan Hernandez 22 days ago in InterSystems IRIS Needs review

Enable wildcards/REGEX for item names in ArchiveItems setting MsgBankOperation Health Connect

Problem: We handle a large production in Health Connect, which is configured to send a subset of HL7 messages to a messagebank. We need to exclude many of the business hosts from archiving anything. Currently, this has to be done for each host ind...
Stefanie Steinert 2 months ago in InterSystems HealthShare Future consideration

Dark Mode for Management Portal

1️⃣ Description of the idea A dark/light mode toggle button in the Management Portal header that swaps the entire SMP between those themes. 2️⃣ Who is the target audience? Developers and admins using our SMP day to day who love dark mode and a...
Vishal Pallerla over 1 year ago in Initial Developer Experience / InterSystems Products Planned

Allow editing descriptions and such from UI in PyProd

Now, it's impossible to edit the PyProd production setup from the UI. Even the simple stuff like the description. It would be better to be able to do it.
Iryna Mykhailova about 2 months ago in PyProd Needs review

Light version InterSystems IRIS

Develop a light version for InterSystems IRIS. It is a fact that IRIS, today, includes several improvements and new functionalities, however, like "all" software evolution, it also requires heavier hardware resources. Not all applications need all...
Andre Larsen Barbosa about 3 years ago in Initial Developer Experience / InterSystems IRIS Done by Community

Use ISOS as acronym for InterSystems ObjectScript

The traditional acronym, COS (=Caché ObjectScript) is not really up-to-dateand appears to be rather unwelcome in an official context ISOS for InterSystems ObjectScript seems to be more appropriate
Robert Cemper about 1 year ago in InterSystems IRIS Community Opportunity

Provide Unix ‘expect’ like functionality to automate the running of iris routines

Often IRIS routines require interactive responses to questions. My idea is to be able to run IRIS routines in the background and supply repsonses from a Python routine. This is common functionality in the Linux world. You can for instance run a un...
Phillip Wu about 2 months ago in InterSystems IRIS Needs review