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Overview

APPS.BEN_DM_UTILITY is a PL/SQL package body in the Oracle E-Business Suite Benefits module that supports the Benefits data migration (DM) framework. Its name reflects its role as a shared utility layer for the DM subsystem, which is used to migrate benefits configuration and transactional data between environments, particularly during implementations and upgrades. The package encapsulates common operations required by the migration engine, including phase and item state management, rollback processing, error and message handling, threading control, and the seeding of column mappings and table ordering metadata. Within the ETRM documentation for 12.2.2, the object is classified as an API of type OTHER, is owned by the APPS schema, and carries a VALID status. It is referenced by fifteen other database objects, indicating that it functions as a foundational dependency rather than an entry-point program. The package body also references BEN_DM_UTILITY itself, which is consistent with internal recursive or overloaded helper calls.

Key Procedures and Functions

The documented API surface comprises eighteen procedures and functions. Grouped by purpose:

No parameter lists are documented in the ETRM metadata, so signatures are not reproduced here.

Tables Accessed

The package reads and writes the core metadata tables of the Benefits data migration framework, accessed through APPS synonyms:

Usage Notes

BEN_DM_UTILITY is not an end-user API. It is invoked indirectly by the Benefits data migration concurrent programs and by the higher-level migration packages that depend on it. Administrators typically trigger the migration framework through concurrent program submissions; this package then executes in support of those programs, seeding configuration metadata, managing phases, and providing rollback and messaging services. Because it is referenced by fifteen other packages, customizations should avoid modifying it directly. Custom code that must interact with the Benefits DM framework should call the documented higher-level migration APIs rather than this utility package, preserving upgrade safety across 12.1.1 and 12.2.2.