InterSystems READY 2025: Source Controlling Interoperability

Author: Sean O’Connor, Senior Consultant, J2 Interactive Pravin Barton, InterSystems Principal Application Developer, presented a demo on production decomposition, a new method that utilizes individual PTD files for each production item to improve source control and collaboration by avoiding bottlenecks associated with a single large class representation. The demonstration covered switching to the decomposed format […]
InterSystems READY 2025: Making SQL Aggregates up to 35% Faster

Author: Sean O’Connor, Senior Consultant, J2 Interactive Elie Eshoa, InterSystems Systems Developer, outlined a project to optimize the aggregation of group by queries by improving parallel processing for average, minimum, and maximum operations. The old sequential parent process bottleneck is addressed by a new approach, where worker processes directly write results in parallel to a […]
InterSystems READY 2025: Automated Provisioning and Management of FHIR Servers

Author: Sean O’Connor, Senior Consultant, J2 Interactive Jaideep Majumdar, InterSystems Development Manager, presented new REST APIs for FHIR management, distinct from data access APIs, which enable users to provision, customize, delete, and retrieve information about FHIR servers. The presentation covered creating and updating servers, managing background jobs, handling custom packages and data loading, and included […]
InterSystems READY 2025: IRIS Automation Using Ansible

Author: Sean O’Connor, Senior Consultant, J2 Interactive Murray Oldfield, InterSystems Principal Technology Architect, presented Ansible as a tool for automating complex system deployments, emphasizing its use in environments like HealthShare by creating focused playbooks. He detailed a typical deployment workflow, declarative configuration management via playbooks, and the organization of hosts and variables within Ansible’s inventory. […]
InterSystems READY 2025: SQL Foreign Tables
Author: Sean O’Connor, Senior Consultant, J2 Interactive Michael Golden, InterSystems Principal Software Developer, presented foreign tables as a method to integrate external data sources, such as Oracle, Postgres, and CSV files, with IRIS for SQL querying without data migration, utilizing foreign servers and data wrappers. He further detailed predicate pushdown and its enhancement to include […]
InterSystems READY 2025: Security in the Cloud
Author: Sean O’Connor, Senior Consultant, J2 Interactive Eduard Lebedyuk, InterSystems Sales Engineer, provided an overview of cloud security, emphasizing the shared responsibility model and the need for central management, strong governance, and risk assessment. Key security foundations include managing everything as an API, separating workloads, and adhering to the principle of least privilege. The discussion […]