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Overview

The APPS.CSP_REQUIREMENT_LINES_PVT package body is the private implementation unit of the requirement lines API within the Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) Service (CSP) module. It belongs to the Order-to-Cash and Service family of PL/SQL APIs and is delivered under the APPS schema with a status of VALID in both EBS 12.1.1 and 12.2.2. The package follows the standard EBS "PVT" (private) naming convention, meaning it encapsulates the internal processing logic that is exposed to callers only indirectly, typically through a corresponding public package or through the associated stored package CSP_REQUIREMENT_LINES_PKG.

Functionally, the package manages the individual line records that constitute a service requirement. A requirement in EBS Service represents a demand or commitment for parts, labor, or other resources associated with a service order, depot repair, or field service activity. The PVT package therefore provides the transactional create, update, and delete primitives that keep those requirement lines consistent with their parent requirement headers and the surrounding service transaction.

Key Procedures and Functions

The ETRM metadata documents three public procedures on this package body. Parameter lists are not published here, so only purpose is described.

  • CREATE_REQUIREMENT_LINES — Inserts new requirement line records into the underlying requirement-line structure. It is the primary entry point for populating a requirement with its constituent lines during service order or requirement creation.
  • UPDATE_REQUIREMENT_LINES — Modifies existing requirement line records, allowing quantities, attributes, or references on a requirement line to be revised after initial creation.
  • DELETE_REQUIREMENT_LINES — Removes requirement line records, supporting cancellation or correction of requirement detail.

Because the package is classified as PVT, these procedures are intended for internal use and are not the supported public interface. External consumers should invoke the corresponding public API rather than calling the PVT package directly.

Tables Accessed

The documented table reference for this package body is PLITBLM, which is a standard Oracle PL/SQL API internal table (a PL/SQL table of VARCHAR2 used by FND_API/JTF_PLSQL_API style APIs for message and error handling). It is not a business data table in the application sense. The actual business persistence for requirement lines is performed through the companion package CSP_REQUIREMENT_LINES_PKG, which the PVT package references. This separation is consistent with EBS coding standards, where the PVT package orchestrates API logic — validation, message handling, and calls to the underlying DML package — while the associated PKG performs the physical inserts, updates, and deletes against the CSP requirement-line base tables.

Usage Notes

The package depends on the standard EBS API infrastructure: FND_API (API framework constants and utilities), FND_GLOBAL (session and user context, such as USER_ID and RESP_ID), FND_MESSAGE and FND_MSG_PUB (error/message stack management), and JTF_PLSQL_API (shared error handling conventions). These dependencies confirm that the package adheres to the EBS API error-handling model, using the message stack and the x_return_status/x_msg_count/x_msg_data convention.

The metadata states that CSP_REQUIREMENT_LINES_PVT is not referenced by any database object, but is itself referenced by eight other packages. This indicates it sits low in the call stack: it is invoked internally by wrapper packages (likely including CSP_REQUIREMENT_LINES_PKG and higher-level service APIs) rather than by forms or concurrent programs directly. Custom developers requiring requirement-line manipulation should call the supported public API, not this private body, because its interface is not guaranteed across patches or releases. As with all APPS schema PL/SQL API objects, changes should be deployed through the standard AD utilities and the file system synchronization process rather than by editing the object in the database.