TSPLPRD (Page range tool for RMT PRT) problem.

["Roger Vicker, CCP" <rv-lists@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Either I am suffering Gray Matter CPU rot or something has changed with 
the TSPLPRD tool (actually the V5R2 handling of *DEVD).

I tried to add another dot matrix printer today using CRTDEVPRT and the 
TSPLPRD driver just as I have in the past. When I start the printer it 
ends immediately abnormal and the job log has an escape message CPF9898 
with:

REMOTE PRINTER QUEUE NOT SPECIFIED IN USRDFNDTA OF PRINTER

So... I looked in the QUSRTOOL documentation for TSPLPRD and it said to 
use SETRMTPQ to set the USRDFNDTA as the remote "path/queue". When I 
used this command 1) it left the object locked until I ended the group 
job (couldn't even do a DLCOBJ) 2) it didn't help.

I don't remember using the SETRMTPQ command years ago when the IBM'er 
sent me the tool (pre WDSC inclusion of the C compiler) and there isn't 
a USRDFNDTA parm on the CRTDEVPRT command.

Has anyone else at V5R2 recently added a printer using TSPLPRD without 
trouble?

Thanks.

Roger Vicker, CCP

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