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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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 1 day ago in InterSystems IRIS 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 7 days ago in InterSystems Products Needs review

PyProd Assistant for Existing IRIS Productions

Summary Add a Production Assistant to PyProd that inspects an existing IRIS interoperability production and generates an editable PyProd definition using the PyProd APIs. The generated Python code would preserve the production’s components, config...
Vishal Pallerla 12 days ago in PyProd Needs review

Make dialog windows in IDS draggable

Allow all dialog windows in IDS to be dragged around to see what's behind them.
Iryna Mykhailova 13 days ago in InterSystems Data Studio Needs review

In the promotion activity item recognize * as a list of fields

Even though in example 1 it says that I can use * to copy all columns from the source table to the canonical model, I get an error (image3). But if I list all columns, it works (image4).
Iryna Mykhailova 14 days ago in InterSystems Data Studio Needs review

Keep %BatchId when giving my own name to staging table in IDS

In IDS, if I choose my own name for the staging table (image1), the field %BatchId and its index disappear from Indices (image2). I'd like it to stay.
Iryna Mykhailova 14 days ago in InterSystems Data Studio Needs review

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 19 days ago in Initial Developer Experience / 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 20 days ago in InterSystems HealthShare Needs review

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 21 days ago in InterSystems IRIS Interoperability Needs review

PyProd AI Flow Analyzer: Intelligent Production Visualization, Diagnostics, and Optimization

Problem As PyProd applications grow, it becomes increasingly difficult to understand: How messages move through the production Which components interact with each other Where bottlenecks occur Why messages fail or take unexpected paths H...
Subhamay Paul 26 days ago in PyProd Needs review