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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    More elaborate motivation of ISC 'decision'

    The 'tags' used to indicate the decision of ISC product/development management to honour an idea should be more explained. That way we understand the motivation or even 'appeal' to such a decision.
    Herman Slagman 10 days ago in Ideas Portal 3 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 26 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 30 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 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

    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

    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 :CSP Shell to Line Recall

    Include $SYSTEM.CSP.Shell() as :CSP, similar to how :sql opens the SQL shell and :py opens the Python shell.
    Ashok Kumar T 8 months ago in InterSystems Products 0 Will not implement

    Compression in SQL Functions

    Introduce SQL functions such as COMPRESS() and UNCOMPRESS() to facilitate data compression and decompression. 1️⃣ Description of the idea Introduce native SQL functions COMPRESS(data, algorithm) and UNCOMPRESS(data) to perform data compression a...
    Ashok Kumar T 8 months ago in InterSystems Products 1 Will not implement