VS Code run ipython in debug console

Meanwhile, I have become a big fan of PDB++ debugger for python. It works like the iPython CLI, so I think the question has become obsolete specifically for me, but still may have some value for others.

It seems this is a desired feature for VS Code but not yet implemented. See this post: https://github.com/DonJayamanne/vscodeJupyter/issues/19

I'm trying to see if one could use the config file of VS Code to define an ipython debug configuration e.g.:

{ "name": "ipython", "type": "python", "request": "launch", "program": "${file}", "pythonPath": "/Users/tsando/anaconda3/bin/ipython" }

but so far no luck. You can see my post in the above link.