🚀 IRIS Terminal Bridge

An advanced Auto-SSL Terminal Bridge for InterSystems IRIS and Caché. This extension replaces the standard terminal with a smart, context-aware bridge that handles Telnet/SSL handshakes, automatic authentication, and features a built-in Global Viewer with BiDi support.

✨ Key Features

🛠️ Smart Terminal PTY

• Auto-SSL Handshake: Automatically detects and connects via SSL/TLS (port 23) with a fallback to standard Net sockets.
• Zero-Touch Login: Automatically injects credentials from your intersystems.servers configuration.
• Live Namespace Tracking: The terminal tab dynamically renames itself based on your current $Namespace (e.g., USER>, ENSDEMO>).
• Legacy Encoding Support: Full support for Windows-1255 and UTF-8, ensuring Hebrew characters render correctly.

🔍 Interactive Global Viewer

• Terminal Link Provider: High-speed regex detection for Global references in your terminal. Ctrl+Click any global line to inspect it.
• Piece Explorer: Automatically splits global data by the * delimiter into a structured list.
• BiDi / Hebrew "Flip": Specialized logic to handle "Visual Hebrew" (reversed text) often found in legacy Caché systems. Includes smart character swapping for parentheses and brackets.

📌 Productivity Tweaks

• Auto-Pin (isfs): Forcefully pins server-side files to your tab bar, preventing "Preview Mode" from closing your work while you navigate.
• Persistent Sessions: Retains webview context even when hidden, so your global history isn't lost during your session.

🚀 How to Use

1. Open Terminal: Click the terminal icon in the Explorer title bar or right-click any folder and select "IRIS: Open Terminal".
2. Select Server: Choose from your configured InterSystems servers.
3. Choose Encoding: Select between UTF-8 (Modern IRIS) or Windows-1255 (Legacy/Hebrew Caché).
4. Inspect Globals: When a global reference appears in the terminal output (e.g., ^User.Data(1)="A*B*C"), Ctrl+Click it to launch the Global Viewer in a side pane.

⚙️ Configuration

The extension leverages your existing InterSystems server definitions. Ensure your settings.json includes the standard server format:

"intersystems.servers": {
    "LocalServer": {
        "host": "127.0.0.1",
        "username": "_SYSTEM",
        "password": "SYS",
        "description": "Production Server"
    }
}