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Overview

JG_UTILITY_PKG is a small, stateless utility package owned by the APPS schema in Oracle E-Business Suite 12.1.1 and 12.2.2. Its sole business function is to provide a consistent run-time diagnostic and messaging facility for PL/SQL code executed within an EBS session. The package is declared AUTHID CURRENT_USER, meaning its procedures execute with the privileges of the calling user rather than the definer, which allows any application or custom schema that has been granted execute privilege to invoke the utilities without requiring direct access to APPS-owned database objects.

The package is classified as OTHER in the ETRM metadata, reflecting that it is not a business API but rather a shared infrastructure helper. Its header comment states the purpose explicitly: to generate standard debug information and send it to DBMS_OUTPUT so that the client tool can log it for the user.

Key Procedures and Functions

The documented interface exposes five procedures and no functions:

• DEBUG — Displays a text message only when the package is in debug mode. This is the workhorse diagnostic call used to trace execution paths during troubleshooting.
• LOG — Writes a text message to the log file, providing a persistent record of processing activity independent of the debug flag.
• OUT — Writes a text message to the out file, intended for user-visible output from a concurrent or reporting process.
• ENABLE_DEBUG — Enables run-time debugging for the session, causing subsequent DEBUG calls to emit output.
• DISABLE_DEBUG — Disables run-time debugging for the session, suppressing DEBUG output. This is the counterpart called at the end of a diagnostic run to restore normal, quiet behavior.

Control of output is governed by the package-level variable debug_flag BOOLEAN := FALSE, which defaults to disabled. The user query for "disable_debug" therefore relates directly to the mechanism that returns a session to its default, non-verbose state after troubleshooting. No parameter lists are documented in the ETRM extract, and none should be assumed.

Tables Accessed

The ETRM metadata records no base tables referenced through APPS synonyms. This is consistent with the package's design: it is a pure messaging utility that writes exclusively to the DBMS_OUTPUT buffer and, by extension, to the client-side log or out file. It performs no DML and holds no persistent state. The only state is the in-memory debug_flag, which exists for the lifetime of the database session and is not shared across sessions.

Usage Notes

JG_UTILITY_PKG is typically invoked from PL/SQL blocks embedded in concurrent program logic, Forms-based client extensions, and custom code that needs to emit diagnostics without building its own logging layer. The package is referenced by three other documented packages, indicating that it forms a common dependency in the Oracle EBS instrumentation stack.

A typical invocation pattern is to call enable_debug at the start of a diagnostic session, use debug calls to trace execution, direct user-facing messages through out and persistent messages through log, and finally call disable_debug to suppress further debug output. Because output relies on DBMS_OUTPUT, the calling client must have output buffering enabled and must fetch the buffer to view messages. Administrators troubleshooting a session should confirm both the debug flag state and the client-side output settings before concluding that a DEBUG call produced no result.