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.

Start by sharing what could be better - the community and our teams will help take it from there.

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    Modernize terminal

    Add command and variable/global name completion in the terminal.
    Fabian Haupt over 3 years ago in Developer Experience / InterSystems IRIS 4 Ideas Contest

    Simplify classnames calls in ObjectScript

    Currently everyone use ##class(classname).methodname() to call it. e.g. do ##class(Sample).ClassMethod() This is one of the painful moments about ObjectScript for developers. Can we introduce a parallel support of more simplified way, as: #classna...
    Evgeny Shvarov over 3 years ago in Developer Experience / InterSystems IRIS 0 Ideas Contest

    Configurable processing of messages

    When dealing with changes, it would be great if you could configure a business process or operation to only process N number of messages. We are regularly asked to only allow a few messages through to enable a supplier to verify everything is ok t...
    Lewis Houlden 10 months ago in Developer Experience / InterSystems HealthShare 1 Ideas Contest

    Visual trace contents in JSON format

    The message contents in the interoperability productions are visualized as default XML view. JSON is also a vital part of the works. So, Add JSON as an additional built in format in message viewer. If it's implemented in IRIS application It will b...
    Ashok Kumar T over 2 years ago in Developer Experience / InterSystems Products 3 Ideas Contest

    Refactoring in VsCode

    In VsCode (As in old Studio) there is juste one refactoring possibility : extract in method. I think that refactoring functions are important in producing clean code, because refactoring without dedicated function is too long, so not done.
    Pierre LaFay about 2 years ago in Developer Experience / InterSystems IRIS 3 Ideas Contest

    Set password through environment variable

    In a continious integration processes, for some applications, for testing purposes, it's useful to run vanilla IRIS and run integration tests, for Python applications for instance And the best way to do it, is to use services feature in popular CI...
    Dmitry Maslennikov about 3 years ago in Developer Experience / InterSystems IRIS 5 Ideas Contest

    Add Source control for all the IRIS interoperability components

    Currently there is no source control available for different components of the Interoperability production. There is a tool git-source-control that helps with some components, e.g. production itself , but business rules editor doesn't have such a ...
    Evgeny Shvarov about 3 years ago in Developer Experience / InterSystems IRIS 0 Ideas Contest

    Add ability to dismount DB from the System>Database Screen

    Add ability to dismount DB from the System>Database Screen. You currently have to access the name in order to dismount the database. Cache used to allow us to do it from the selection screen.
    Martha (Perspecta) Rodriguez 12 months ago in Developer Experience / InterSystems IRIS 0 Ideas Contest

    Open source Parser for ObjectScript

    Open source parser driven by InterSystems, required by many types of projects, which could be implemented then by community. Linters, Syntax Analyzers, Security Scans and so on are require parser for ObjectScript Language Server in VSCode is awful...
    Dmitry Maslennikov over 3 years ago in Developer Experience / InterSystems IRIS 1 Ideas Contest

    Reserve licenses

    Where a system is using user based licensing the allocation is first come first served. If there are dynamic connections, such as web based applications, it would be useful to reserve a license for a specific license ID to ensure availability. Thi...
    David Underhill over 3 years ago in Developer Experience / InterSystems IRIS 1 Ideas Contest