InterSystems Ideas

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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.

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InterSystems IRIS

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    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 28 days ago in InterSystems IRIS 1 Will not implement

    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 about 1 month 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 2 months ago in InterSystems IRIS 1 Will not implement

    Support UUID v7 as IdKey

    RFC 9562 defines UUID v7, as a timestamp based universally unique identifier (https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9562.html#name-uuid-version-7). Supporting this type of UUID as the IdKey of persistent classes may have multiple advantages: The ID ...
    Attila Toth 3 months ago in Developer Experience / InterSystems IRIS 1 Will not implement

    Adding Ctrl+V functionality to iris terminals

    Essentially this idea boosts the current functionality of pasting into the IRIS terminal. Over the course of the year, this will save developers in total countless hours of having to right click and paste instead of keyboard macros Any users of ...
    John Spead 8 months ago in InterSystems IRIS 1 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

    Add polling for changes to the VSCode extension(s)

    Currently, if you edit code client-side in VSCode the local copy of any routines/classes remain static.If someone else makes a change, via Studio or another VSCode session etc..., then that change doesn't update my local client copy or flag that a...
    David Underhill about 1 year 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

    Introduce YAML or JSON support for CPF Merge files

    CPF Merge files are cumbersome now. It is very complicated to create a new merge.CPF without knowing by-heart all the configuration parameters. E.g. take a look an example. Let's introduce YAML (preferrable) or JSON notation for CPF Merge
    Evgeny Shvarov over 1 year ago in InterSystems IRIS 0 Will not implement

    Errors messages to be more clear

    I find it a bit hard to understand the error, maybe error messages can be clear or trying to detect misspelling and create a more understanding of error message.
    Evans Tlhako over 1 year ago in InterSystems IRIS 2 Will not implement