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Overview

The EAM_WORK_ORDER_IMPORT_ERRORS table is a diagnostic repository within Oracle E-Business Suite's Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) module. It captures validation and processing failures that occur when work order records are loaded into EAM through the Work Order Import concurrent program, which reads source data from the EAM_WORK_ORDER_IMPORT interface tables and stages it into the operational work order tables. When a source row fails validation — due to missing mandatory attributes, invalid asset numbers, unresolvable department references, or malformed date values — the import process does not abort. Instead, it writes a row into this table describing the failure, allowing the rejected record to be corrected and resubmitted without re-running the entire batch.

The table therefore serves as the error-handling arm of the EAM work order inbound integration, and its presence is essential for auditability of interface loads. Its role is closely tied to the GROUP_ID, which links each error row back to the specific import batch that produced it.

From a dimensional modeling perspective, the ETRM metadata classifies this object as standalone, meaning no foreign-key enforcement is documented against other EAM entities. Under a heuristic Data Vault classification, the table behaves most like a satellite — it is a descriptive, non-key-bearing artifact attached to a parent load process rather than the hub of a business entity or a relationship between entities. Modelers should treat it as an event/diagnostic record, not as a reference table.

Key Information Stored

The documented physical schema in ETRM 12.2.2 contains nine columns, which fall into three functional groups: identifiers, the error payload, and standard audit columns.

• GROUP_ID — the batch identifier shared by all interface rows submitted together. This is the principal business-key candidate and the most useful join predicate when reconciling a failed import run against the source interface table.
• HEADER_ID — identifies the work order header that the rejected interface row was intended to create. This links the error back to the work order business key.
• ROW_ID — the surrogate row identifier. The documented metadata shows a relationship from ROW_ID to CS_SYSTEMS_ALL_B_TEMP, but the heuristic classification flags the table as standalone, so this association should be validated against the actual foreign-key definition in the customer's instance before relying on it for enforced joins.
• ERROR_MESSAGE — the human-readable text of the validation failure. This is the column queried most frequently by support and integration teams, and it drives the corrective action taken against the source file.
• LAST_UPDATE_DATE, LAST_UPDATED_BY, CREATION_DATE, CREATED_BY, LAST_UPDATE_LOGIN — Oracle's standard WHO columns, recording creation and last-modification metadata for audit and troubleshooting.

The combination of GROUP_ID and HEADER_ID, rather than ROW_ID alone, is the practical business key for locating a specific failure.

Common Use Cases and Queries

The most frequent operational scenario is diagnosing a failed Work Order Import batch. Support staff first determine which GROUP_ID failed, then retrieve the error text for every affected row:

SELECT header_id, error_message FROM eam.eam_work_order_import_errors WHERE group_id = :p_group_id ORDER BY row_id;

A second common pattern is a triage report that aggregates failures by message to reveal systemic data problems rather than one-off defects:

SELECT error_message, COUNT(*) failures FROM eam.eam_work_order_import_errors GROUP BY error_message ORDER BY failures DESC;

A third use is data-quality trending, joining errors to load history so that recurring failures can be measured over time. This supports integration monitoring and SLA reporting, and it is useful when validating a new or modified interface before cutover.

Related Objects

• CS_SYSTEMS_ALL_B_TEMP — the documented relationship target reached through ROW_ID. This relationship should be confirmed in the target instance, since the table is classified as standalone.
• EAM_WORK_ORDER_IMPORT (interface table) — the staging source for work order load rows; joined on GROUP_ID to obtain the original data that failed validation.
• EAM_WORK_ORDER_IMPORT_HEADERS / EAM_WORK_ORDER_IMPORT_HEADERS_TEMP — header-level interface staging, joined via GROUP_ID for full batch context.
• EAM_WORK_ORDER_HEADERS / EAM_WORK_ORDER_HEADERS_ALL — the destination work order tables; join on HEADER_ID to confirm whether the record was ultimately created.
• WIP_ENTITIES and standard concurrent-request tables (FND_CONCURRENT_REQUESTS) — used to correlate an error batch with the request that produced it.