Starting the Debug Service job v3 outside of iNav or VS Code

[heymchri]

Debug Service job v2 could be started on the server like this:
SBMJOB CMD(STRQSH CMD('/QOpenSys/pkgs/bin/bash -c /QIBM/ProdData/IBMiDebugService/bin/startDebugService.sh')) JOB(DBGSVCE) JOBD(QSYS/QSYSJOBD) JOBQ(QSYS/QUSRNOMAX) USER(<user profile with *ALLOBJ authority>)
We did this as part of our IPL process.

Is there a way to do this with v3? Or is there a way to autostart this job at IPL?

Since our developers typically don't have *USE authority on user profile QDBGSRV they can't start the Debug Service job from VS Code.

The following command seems to be working on V7R5, but I'm hoping someone can confirm that this is acceptable:
SBMJOB CMD(QSH CMD('export JAVA_HOME=/QOpenSys/QIBM/ProdData/JavaVM/jdk11/64bit;/QIBM/ProdData/IBMiDebugService/bin/startDebugService.sh > /QIBM/UserData/IBMiDebugService/startDebugService_workspace/startDebugServiceNavigator.log 2>&1')) JOB(QDBGSRV) JOBD(QSYS/QSYSJOBD) JOBQ(QSYS/QUSRNOMAX) OUTQ(QUSRSYS/QDBGSRV) USER(QDBGSRV)

[sebjulliand]

Yes, this is the same command executed when starting the service from Code for i. Perfectly acceptable 👌🏻

[heymchri]

To start the Debug Service v3 job from the server:
SBMJOB CMD(QSH CMD('export JAVA_HOME=/QOpenSys/QIBM/ProdData/JavaVM/jdk11/64bit;/QIBM/ProdData/IBMiDebugService/bin/startDebugService.sh > /QIBM/UserData/IBMiDebugService/startDebugService_workspace/startDebugServiceNavigator.log 2>&1')) JOB(QDBGSRV) JOBD(QSYS/QSYSJOBD) JOBQ(QSYS/QUSRNOMAX) OUTQ(QUSRSYS/QDBGSRV) USER(QDBGSRV)

Notes:

• on V7R6, use jdk17 instead of jdk11
• to stop the Debug Service job, just change 'start' to 'stop' (and maybe change JOB to QDBGSRVE)