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 9 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

    IRIS Community with no connections limit

    IRIS Community Edition without limit on connections amount instead, limit IRIS by cores and memory, i.e. limit it to 2-4 cores and 4-8GB RAM IRIS Community Edition is very useful in automated testing or some simple demos, but it's useless due to l...
    Dmitry Maslennikov over 2 years ago in InterSystems IRIS 0 Ideas Contest

    add icons to vscode extensions

    InterSystems Extensions for VScode are the preferred way to develop with InterSystems product stack. These extensions enable connectivity and are very helpful, they even provide a color theme pack for vscode. I would like to see and icon theme pac...
    Timo Lindenschmid 9 months ago in InterSystems Resources for Developers 0 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

    Intersystems IRIS "green time" profile

    Iris will run a profile time where it collects all the usual code run over a period (like a week) and then it create a tipical profile for that workload. With this profile in use, it manage the os so that it can consume less cpu power when not nee...
    Pietro Montorfano over 2 years ago in InterSystems Products 0 Ideas Contest

    built-in way to dynamically include all columns in JSON_OBJECT()

    There’s currently no way to Dynamically include all columns in JSON_OBJECT() without manually listing them in the SQL query. However, Scalar function JSON_OBJECT not supported for stream fields ex: SELECT JSON_OBJECT(t) FROM TABLE t / SELECT JSON_...
    Ashok Kumar T 9 months ago in InterSystems Products 0 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 almost 3 years ago in Developer Experience / InterSystems IRIS 5 Ideas Contest