User`s guide

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Guide to Printers and Printing
Limits Field
The limits field in the colon file contains two types of information. SMIT dialog information
and validation information.
SMIT Dialog Information
Information used in building SMIT objects represent colon file attributes in the object data
manager (ODM). These objects will be used in the Print a File, Printer Setup, and Default
Job Characteristics dialogs.
The limits field gives you some control over the type of sm_cmd_opt ODM object that is built
for every object. You can control whether or not an attribute is always displayed, never
displayed, or displayed only if it is referenced in a pipeline. You can modify the following
fields:
• id_seq_num
• entry_type
• cmd_to_list_mode
• required
• op_type
• multi_select
• disp_values
• aix_values
• values_msg_file
• values_msg_set
• values_msg_id
• help_msg_id
• help_msg_loc
Validation Information
Validation information validates attribute values when the colon file is complete and a print
job is submitted.