Unable to debug a program

[rob400i]

When I try to debug an RPGLE program I receive the following message.

EQAVS1007E mysystem on port 8005 could not be connected.
Message received: connect ECONNREFUSED 192.168.9.2:8005

Note the system name and ip address were changed in the above message.

I verified Port 8005 is not listening on the system.

The System Debugger under Network/TCP Servers does show Started.

I also ran STRDBGSVR and it returned the following message.
Debug server router function already active.

Any ideas on how I can resolve this?

[rob400i]

I now have debug working although I’m not 100% clear on the details.

At the bottom of the left sidebar in vsCode was an IBM i Debugger 3.0.0 section. A debug server job and service were listed and beside them were start buttons. After clicking them, ports 8001 & 8005 went active, and I was able to debug.

Prior to this I had already run the STRDBGSVR command so I’m not sure why the above steps were necessary.

I’ll post an update to this when I get a better understanding of the issue.

While researching this issue, I found an IBM document that says the “IBM i Debug Service uses two port number: the debug daemon port (default is 8001) and the secure port (default is 8005).” It also describes how to change the ports being used.

Here is a link to the document.

https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/merlin/1.0?topic=environment-debugging

[sebjulliand]

Hi @rob400i ,
Your issue was due to the debug service not being started.
There are two pieces involved when debugging from code for i:

• The debug server, that is used by RDi. (Started from iNav or with STRDBGSVR or from the IBM debugger view in vs code)
• The debug service, that code for i uses. The service is a rest api server (to simplify) that connects to the debug server to perform debugging. It can be started from iNav and the IBM debugger view (but this capability will be removed in a future release).

Here's the documentation about the debug service: https://codefori.github.io/docs/developing/debug/

Hope this helps!