In last version of Suite - 7.38 there is new bug that validate function of Combo does not return result of validation at all, so it is always undefined. In previous versions there was correct.
We have fixed your reported problem in the latest dhx.Suite update (v.7.3.9).
Now the validation should work properly.
You can test it in your original snippet.
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