I have a problem. Occasionally, I am getting locked out of IRIS because of password failures. However, the failures aren't necessarily related to my password.  We are using VSCode, and I have installed one or two proposed APIs for use with the software (because that's just how I am; I want to learn the new stuff).

Today, I had that problem again. The step that caused the problem was most likely when I was trying to switch the branch I was using and updating within VSCode. Let's say I was switching from branch "1A" to branch "2B". When I did this, IRIS caught two password errors:

I am trying to set up VS Code so that it will connect to a new server running IRIS 2023.1, and I can't seem to get the setup to accept my errors. I enter all the requested information, and at the end I receive a message:

Failed to store server '$(name)' definition.

Source: InterSystems Server Manager (Extension)

I've submitted a bug log with VSCode, but then I noticed the source, and figured it might be related to the extension instead of the program, and was wondering if others have received this message. The VSCode is 1.79.1, for the record.

Thanks as always.

This is for the veteran programmers out there (you know who you are; you started programming before date 60000). 

I'm in the middle of updates for our system, and I've come across many $ZU() calls. Most of them are documented in the "Replacement List", but two are missing: $ZUtil(0) and $ZUtil(1).

I honestly don't remember what these are for (and I'm pretty sure I used them in code in a previous century), so if someone can tell me, great.  If you can provide a link to a reference, better!  

As always, I appreciate your help.

I am curious as to why one would use lookup tables, and what would be the best practices regarding them. We have two namespaces, and we would like to use the lookup table in each one. But, there's no clear outline of when to use them, and what are the best ways to use them?

Any help is appreciated.

Probably a simple question, but where do I find the list of Translate Tables?  The documentation wasn't clear.

Thank you,

So, I was doing a debug test on a routine, and tried to open a file (yes, it does exist) as so:

s file=##class(%File).%Open($$$airfile,"R")

And, I got the above-mentioned error. It begins with "cn_iptcp://localhost:56775/%Stream.Object.1.INT" in case the port means anything.

This is a single-license version of Cache 2017.2, which I installed about three years ago. You would think I'd have the .INT files, but I don't. Oh, one other oddity: I can't seem to compile the routine, despite having admin privs for the machine. It's Windows 7 64-bit.

Any help is appreciated.

Hi again!

I logged into the demo IRIS again, and for some reason, today, I had an "Classpath is incomplete" warning message. The classpath is defined under quickstarts-multimodel-java.  Here is the contents of the file :

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<classpath>

    <classpathentry kind="src" path="src"/>

    <classpathentry kind="lib" path="lib/intersystems-jdbc-3.0.0.jar"/>

    <classpathentry kind="lib" path="lib/intersystems-xep-3.0.0.jar"/>

    <classpathentry kind="con" path="org.eclipse.jdt.launching.JRE_CONTAINER/org.eclipse.jdt.internal.debug.ui.launcher.StandardVMType/JavaSE-1.8"/>

I learned about the Open Exchange tab here at Intersystems. I wanted to look at one of them, but when I clicked it, it tried to go to the site, then brought me back to openexchange.intersystems.com.  I then saw a "not secure" icon in the browser bar. I tried this on IE, Chrome, and Firefox, and could never seem to get into the site to look at the site https://openexchange.intersystems.com/package/Cach%25C3%25A9Quality.

NOTE: seems to affect only the link above.

Am I missing something? Is there a special setting I need to set to see these ideas?

Thanks,

We have this challenge at our site. When we first designed it many years ago, we decided that the best way to store files was with a unique identifier, which matched one of the fields in the corresponding record. For example, if the unique identifier was a nine-digit field (such as a SSN), we'd save a file as nnnnnnnnn.ext, where nnnnnnnnn is the nine-digit number, and ext is the file extension. If we needed a change to the file, we'd file as nnnnnnnnn_hdate.ext, where hdate is the horolog date. And for 18 years, this was just fine.

Hello,

I've been doing this for years.  Well, decades.  And, I pride myself in being able to break other people's code.

However, sometimes I don't apply the same dedication to breaking my code.  That needs to change.

So, I'd like to ask people, what are some of the things you like to test for when trying to stress-test your code?  I'll start with what I like to try testing to see what crashes, what works unexpectedly, and what I've handled.

I always test the following: 0; 1; -1; some 20-digit number; some 50-character string; 1/0; 2E12; " ", and an undefined variable.