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Overview
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Overview

The APPS.FF_ARC_INS package body is a component of the Oracle E-Business Suite Flexfields architecture, residing in the APPS schema with a status of VALID across both 12.1.1 and 12.2.2 releases. Its role is to manage the insertion of records into the flexfield archiving structures that store historical and audit copies of descriptive flexfield and key flexfield data. The "FF_ARC" prefix identifies it as part of the Flexfields Archiving subsystem, while the "_INS" suffix denotes its responsibility for insert-oriented activity. In practice, this package provides the procedural layer that persists archived flexfield item rows, drawing on shared logic exposed by companion packages within the archiving suite.

The package is classified as OTHER under the ETRM API classification model, and the available metadata records that it is not referenced by any other database object, indicating it functions as a leaf-level implementation unit invoked through the archiving framework rather than as a broadly reused public API.

Key Procedures and Functions

The documented interface exposes one procedure:

  • INS — Performs the core insert operation for flexfield archive items. This procedure writes archived flexfield item records into the underlying archive tables, serving as the primary entry point through which the package contributes to the archive-population process. Consistent with the package's naming convention, INS is dedicated to insert activity rather than update, delete, or query operations.

The metadata does not document parameter lists, and none are reproduced here. Descriptions are limited to the purpose evidenced by the object's documented dependencies and name. The single documented procedure confirms that FF_ARC_INS is narrowly scoped to record creation within the archive schema.

Tables Accessed

The package references two archived flexfield objects through APPS synonyms:

  • FF_ARCHIVE_ITEMS — The principal archive table holding serialized or structured copies of flexfield item data. FF_ARC_INS writes to this table as its primary persistence target.
  • FF_ARCHIVE_ITEMS_S — A companion structure, typically a sequence or supporting auxiliary object associated with FF_ARCHIVE_ITEMS. The search term "ff_archive_items_s" that led to this object corresponds directly to this dependency, confirming its relevance to archive item insertion.

Because FF_ARCHIVE_ITEMS_S commonly carries sequence semantics, its presence here supports the generation of unique identifiers required when new archive item rows are created. Both tables are accessed via APPS synonyms, so the package operates entirely within the APPS schema namespace.

Usage Notes

Invocation of FF_ARC_INS occurs indirectly rather than through a directly exposed form or concurrent program. The dependency listing shows it references FF_ARC_BUS, FF_ARC_SHD, FND_GLOBAL, HR_API, and HR_UTILITY, placing it within a layered calling structure in which business and shared archive logic sit above the insert routine. The presence of FND_GLOBAL indicates reliance on Oracle Applications session context, such as user identity and responsibility information, captured alongside archived records. The HR-related dependencies (HR_API, HR_UTILITY) suggest the archiving process can also encompass flexfield data associated with HR-related entities, or that shared HR utility routines are reused for validation and identifier handling.

The package is not referenced by any other database object, so it should be treated as an internal implementation detail of the flexfields archive subsystem. Custom code should not invoke FF_ARC_INS directly; instead, archiving should be triggered through the supported archive management interfaces that ultimately call this package. Its behavior is tightly coupled to FF_ARCHIVE_ITEMS and FF_ARCHIVE_ITEMS_S, so any modification to those structures must be evaluated against this package before deployment in either 12.1.1 or 12.2.2 environments.