LabVIEW Idea Exchange

There are express VIs for Analog/Digital/Counter channels.How about express VIs for configuraing and acquiring data from an RS232 port?

Most of the time, I put remote devices on our internal network. If I set up the device so the IP Address is dynamically assigned, the IP often changes. But, the project needs me to point to a device via specific IP address. If the IP Address changes, I constantly have to update the remote devices properties in my project, often times not realizing this is even an issue until a deployment fails because the device can't be found.

I'm proposing an idea to link to a devices' alias (or some unique ID other than IP) and allow the project to automagically update the IP Address.