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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InterSystems IRIS

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 21 days ago in InterSystems IRIS 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

Publish the InterSystems IRIS Native SDK for Node.js on npm

People building Node.js apps commonly use npm as the place they get packages they depend on. Not being able to get the files needed for InterSystems IRIS Native API for Node.js from there adds friction which probably results in some lost opportuni...
John Murray almost 4 years ago in InterSystems IRIS Implemented

Provide a single page view of free space in IRIS DBs

Actually, the information on free space in IRIS DBs requires many clicksand manual drilldown for each DB. +
Robert Cemper about 1 year ago in InterSystems IRIS Done by Community

Out-of-the-box Enterprise Service Bus solution on IRIS Data Platform

It is no secret that integration is required for any complex IT solution involving many separate applications. IRIS Data Platform already has everything necessary: a lot of connectors, an API server, a database, and an unachievable-by-others level...
Andrew Sklyarov 2 months ago in Initial Developer Experience / InterSystems IRIS Needs review

Fix bugged %JSONIGNORENULL parameter implementation

The %JSONIGNORENULL parameter was working as documented up to version 2020, after that version it does not work anymore. The idea is to fix it as per documentation or, in case there are concerns in existing code that may rely on bugged implemen...
Enrico Parisi over 1 year ago in InterSystems IRIS Planned

Create standardized llms.txt documentation for InterSystems products to improve LLM code generation quality for ObjectScript, Caché, and IRIS development

ObjectScript and InterSystems technologies are underrepresented in LLM training data, leading to poor code generation, hallucinations, and incorrect syntax suggestions. A standardized llms.txt file would provide LLMs with authoritative, structured...
Jan Miesbauer 8 months ago in Documentation / Generative AI / Initial Developer Experience / InterSystems IRIS Planned