Hi experts…

Lately I've been working with SMIT menus and I've noticed that for each menu option, selector, and dialog box, there are references to a catalog file with information or help.

Most of the references point to the smit.cat file, which is the default catalog file for messages.

I understand that we can retrieve the messages and display them with commands like:

# dspmsg -s 3 smit.cat 71 "Could not create user $USER."

The location of the smit.cat file should be /usr/lib/nls/msg/en_US (depending on the language), but when I looked for it, it wasn't there.

When I tried using the following command, it returned that there is no smit.cat file anywhere on the system.

# find / -name smit.cat

This would indicate that SMIT has a problem displaying messages from its menus, but SMIT calls to help do display information and help data correctly

So where is the smit.cat file? .... Is it embedded somewhere?

Other catalog files referenced in ODM's SMIT files, such as devices.cat, sas.cat, and serinstall.cat, are located in the /usr/lib/methods/ or /usr/lib/nls/msg/en_US/ directories.

However, there are many other files, such as topas.cat, cmdnim.cat, rsetctl.cat, ewlm.cat, wlmcntrl.cat, chedition.cat, trustchk.cat, cmdtrace.cat, smtctl.cat, piosmit.cat, and vrtscsi.cat, to name a few, that are also nowhere to be found but also surely work well. 

Regards

Luis A. Rojas Kramer

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Luis Alberto Rojas Kramer
Tech Support Specialist and Company Founder
Grupo Integrador TFI, S.A. de C.V.
Boca del Río
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