Missing Refresh entry points action - SEP doesn't get triggered after program is recompiled

[sebjulliand]

Debug extension: 2.0.2
Debug service: 2.0.1

Setting an SEP on a program works fine until the program gets recompiled. After that, it's not possible to get the SEP to be triggered again. Removing and adding the SEP doesn't work either. Only restarting the Debug Service will make it work again...until the program gets recompiled.

RDi doesn't suffer from this because it includes an action to refresh the SEPs; this action must be run after a program is recompiled, and it works fine:

This action seems to be missing from the VS Code Debug Extension and should be added, IMHO.

[heymchri]

@sebjulliand I was so glad to see this issue - we have been running into it as well, and we couldn't figure out what was going on. It's puzzling though that removing and adding the SEP doesn't fix this either.

[mkwan01]

@sebjulliand This is a known missing feature. There is some amount of work to implement this feature in the debug service. We will try to add this feature in the next debug service update.

[sebjulliand]

Lovely; thanks for the heads up @mkwan01 (and happy new year)!

[heymchri]

@mkwan01 Thanks for the update - this is a critical issue for our development team that prevents them from fully adopting VS Code for their IBM i work.

[mkwan01]

@heymchri Thanks for the comment. We will try to give this one a higher priority when planning for the next phase features.