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Overview

AME_STRING_VALUES_API is a PL/SQL package owned by the APPS schema in Oracle E-Business Suite 12.1.1 and 12.2.2. It belongs to the Oracle Approvals Management (AME) product family and is classified in the ETRM repository as an API, meaning it is intended as a programmatic interface rather than as a private implementation unit. AME is the rules engine that evaluates approval routing for transactions such as purchase orders, requisitions, invoices, and expense reports across the EBS suite. Within that architecture, string values represent the textual data elements that AME rules reference when performing comparisons, such as a buyer name, a cost center code, or a transaction type descriptor.

The package provides the supported entry points for creating, removing, and bulk-loading rows in the underlying string value store. It encapsulates the insert, delete, and load logic so that callers do not manipulate the base table directly, thereby preserving data integrity and allowing Oracle to maintain validation and defaulting behavior internally. The package is recorded with a status of VALID in the ETRM dependency report, confirming that it compiles cleanly against its declared dependencies and is currently active in the instance.

Key Procedures and Functions

The ETRM metadata documents three procedures for AME_STRING_VALUES_API:

• INSERT_ROW — Creates a single new string value record. This is the primary programmatic entry point for adding a textual value that an AME rule can subsequently reference during approval evaluation.
• DELETE_ROW — Removes an existing string value record, typically identified by its key columns. This supports maintenance and cleanup of values that are no longer needed by any active rule.
• LOAD_ROW — Performs a conditional load, conventionally implemented in EBS APIs as an upsert: the row is inserted when absent and updated when already present. This makes LOAD_ROW the preferred procedure for idempotent data migration and seeding scripts, because repeated execution does not raise duplicate-key errors.

The documented metadata does not enumerate parameter signatures for these procedures. Callers should obtain the exact argument lists from the installed package specification in the target instance, since parameter order and datatypes are defined in the source and are not reproduced in the ETRM extract.

Tables Accessed

The package operates on a single documented table, AME_STRING_VALUES, which is referenced through an APPS synonym. This table is the persistence layer for the textual values consumed by AME rule definitions. INSERT_ROW writes new entries, DELETE_ROW removes existing entries, and LOAD_ROW conditionally writes or updates entries. All three procedures therefore concentrate on maintaining the integrity of this one store. No additional tables are listed in the documented dependencies, which indicates a tightly scoped API that does not reach into unrelated AME configuration entities such as rule or attribute definitions.

Usage Notes

AME_STRING_VALUES_API is intended for programmatic invocation by concurrent programs, data-migration or seeding scripts, and custom PL/SQL routines that extend or configure AME setup data. It is an internal-service-style API rather than a user-facing one: no standard Oracle EBS form is documented as calling it directly, and the ETRM record shows zero packages referencing it, meaning it sits at the edge of the AME dependency graph rather than in its interior.

Typical usage patterns include loading string values as part of an AME rule deployment, replicating setup between environments such as test and production, and performing controlled maintenance deletions. Because the package is owned by APPS, custom code must be granted execute privilege on it or invoked through a synonym in the APPS schema. Implementers should always call the API procedures rather than issuing DML against AME_STRING_VALUES directly, so that any validation or defaulting logic encapsulated in the package is applied consistently. Where values are created for rule evaluation, callers should also confirm that the corresponding rules and attributes are configured, since this package manages only the value store and not the rule definitions that consume it.