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Overview

BEN_BDI_SHD is a PL/SQL package owned by the APPS schema in Oracle E-Business Suite, classified under the Oracle Advanced Benefits (BEN) product family. The "BDI" prefix denotes the Batch Dependant Information component of the Benefits module, while the "SHD" suffix identifies this as a shadow or stub package. Shadow packages in Oracle EBS typically serve as compile-time and dependency-management placeholders for a corresponding base package, in this case the BEN_BDI package family used to process batch dependent information records.

The package operates as an internal, "OTHER"-classified API rather than a public interface. It exists to support the batch data interface used when importing, updating, deleting, or inserting dependant records in bulk, and to expose controlled DML status handling for those operations. Its status is VALID, indicating that it compiles successfully in the 12.1.1 and 12.2.2 environments against which it was documented.

Key Procedures and Functions

  • RETURN_API_DML_STATUS — Returns the current DML status flag maintained by the API layer, allowing callers to determine whether a preceding insert, update, or delete operation against dependant batch data completed successfully.
  • CONSTRAINT_ERROR — Handles or raises constraint violation conditions encountered during DML, providing a controlled mechanism for reporting integrity failures back to the calling processes.
  • API_UPDATING — Indicates or manages the state in which the API is actively performing an update, used to distinguish update processing from other transaction modes.
  • LCK — Provides locking behavior for the records under manipulation, protecting concurrent access during batch processing.
  • CONVERT_ARGS — Converts or normalizes arguments passed into the API, bridging the calling convention used by the batch loaders with the internal representation expected by the base processing routines.

Tables Accessed

The package references ALL_CONSTRAINTS, an Oracle data dictionary view, which aligns with the CONSTRAINT_ERROR routine and suggests the package inspects constraint definitions or validates constraint state at runtime. It also references BEN_BATCH_DPNT_INFO, the primary business table storing batch dependant information. Read and write activity against this table underpins the insert, update, and delete processing performed through the dependent BEN_BDI_INS, BEN_BDI_UPD, and BEN_BDI_DEL packages, which are themselves listed as referencing BEN_BDI_SHD.

Usage Notes

BEN_BDI_SHD is not intended for direct invocation by end users. It is referenced by five other packages within APPS, including BEN_BATCH_DPNT_INFO_API, BEN_BDI_BUS, BEN_BDI_DEL, BEN_BDI_INS, and BEN_BDI_UPD. These references indicate that the package is invoked indirectly whenever batch dependant information is loaded, reconciled, or maintained, whether through Benefits concurrent programs, the Batch Dependant Information functional flows, or custom extensions that call the BEN_BDI API stack. Customizations should call the public-facing BEN_BATCH_DPNT_INFO_API rather than BEN_BDI_SHD directly, since the shadow package exposes internal DML status, locking, and argument-conversion utilities that operate within the transactional context established by its callers.