Search Results igs_st_gvt_spsht_chg

Overview

The table IGS_ST_GVT_SPSHT_CHG is a data repository within the Oracle E-Business Suite's Student System (IGS), which is now designated as obsolete. Its primary function is to serve as an audit and reporting mechanism for post-submission data corrections. Specifically, it records changes made to student data that impact a government submission after that submission has already been officially transmitted. This is critical for regulatory compliance, as such late changes typically require formal reporting to the relevant government authority to correct the official record.

Key Information Stored

The table's structure is designed to uniquely identify each change record and link it to the original submission. Its primary key is a composite of five columns: SUBMISSION_YR, SUBMISSION_NUMBER, PERSON_ID, COURSE_CD, and SEQUENCE_NUMBER. This combination ensures each change is tied to a specific student (PERSON_ID), their course (COURSE_CD), within a distinct government submission (identified by YEAR and NUMBER), with a SEQUENCE_NUMBER to order multiple changes for the same entity. While the specific data columns changed are not detailed in the provided excerpt, the table's purpose implies it would store metadata about the change, such as the field altered, its old and new values, and likely a timestamp and identifier for who made the change.

Common Use Cases and Queries

The central use case is generating regulatory change reports for government bodies. Administrators would query this table to compile a list of all amendments requiring notification since the last submission. A typical query would join to the submission control table to filter for a specific reporting period or submission batch. For example: SELECT chg.* FROM igs_st_gvt_spsht_chg chg, igs_st_gvt_spsht_ctl_all ctl WHERE chg.submission_yr = ctl.submission_yr AND chg.submission_number = ctl.submission_number AND ctl.submission_status = 'SENT' ORDER BY chg.submission_yr, chg.submission_number, chg.person_id; Another critical operational use is data validation, where queries might identify students with an unusually high number of post-submission changes, potentially indicating underlying data quality issues.

Related Objects

The table has a documented foreign key relationship, indicating it is a child table dependent on the submission control entity. The specific relationship is:

• Foreign Key to IGS_ST_GVT_SPSHT_CTL_ALL: The columns IGS_ST_GVT_SPSHT_CHG.SUBMISSION_YR and IGS_ST_GVT_SPSHT_CHG.SUBMISSION_NUMBER reference the control table. This enforces referential integrity, ensuring every change record is associated with a valid, existing government submission. The control table (IGS_ST_GVT_SPSHT_CTL_ALL) likely holds high-level information about each submission batch, such as creation date, status, and reporting period.

It is important to note the provided metadata states this table is "Not implemented in this database," suggesting it may exist in the data model but was not deployed in all instances, or its functionality was superseded.