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Overview

EDW_ITEMCUSTOM_M_C is an Oracle E-Business Suite PL/SQL specification package owned by the APPS schema. It is classified by ETRM as an "OTHER" API, indicating that it does not conform to the standard Oracle interface table and concurrent program conventions used by Open Interfaces and Public APIs. The package forms part of the Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) custom extension layer that Oracle historically delivered to support the transfer of master-level item attribute data from the operational EBS schema into the Oracle Business Intelligence and Enterprise Data Warehouse environments.

The package is declared with AUTHID CURRENT_USER, meaning that its SQL statements execute with the privileges of the invoking schema rather than the definer. This design is consistent with data-extraction utilities that are intended to be called from a variety of contexts, including concurrent program sessions and anonymous PL/SQL blocks, without requiring the calling user to be the APPS schema itself. The header comment records an initial release version of 115.0 dated 2002/05/08, which reflects the package's origin in the 11i era; the object remains present and documented in EBS 12.1.1 and 12.2.2 as a legacy extraction component.

Key Procedures and Functions

ETRM documents a single callable element within this package specification:

• GET_PRODUCT_CATEGORY_SET_FK — A function whose name indicates that it resolves and returns the foreign key reference to the product category set associated with a particular item and inventory organization. It accepts parameters representing the inventory item, the inventory organization, and an instance code, and returns a VARCHAR2 value. The function serves as a lookup utility for the warehouse load process, supplying the category set identifier required to correctly dimension item-category relationships in the EDW model.

No other procedures or functions are documented in the specification. Because the package body is not included in the ETRM excerpt, the precise query logic and the full parameter names and datatypes are not reproduced here; only the documented signature contract is described.

Tables Accessed

The ETRM metadata records no direct table references for this package. In practice, a category-set resolution function of this nature would read the item-category assignment tables and the category set definition tables through APPS synonyms, but since no dependencies are documented, no table list can be asserted with confidence. Administrators performing impact analysis should query ALL_DEPENDENCIES and DBA_SOURCE for the package body in their specific instance to enumerate the actual objects touched.

Usage Notes

EDW_ITEMCUSTOM_M_C is referenced by one other package, indicating that it is an internal utility consumed by a higher-level warehouse extraction routine rather than being invoked directly by end users. It is not associated with a form or a standalone concurrent program in the documented metadata. Typical invocation is therefore expected to occur from within the parent extraction package or from custom PL/SQL code that assembles item master records for the data warehouse. Because the function returns a VARCHAR2 foreign key, callers must handle the possibility of a NULL return when no category set is assigned to the combination of item, organization, and instance code supplied. The package should be treated as legacy and read-only in nature; no transactional or DML behavior is documented for it.