Search Results get_bis_global_start_date

Overview

APPS.HRI_BPL_PARAMETER is a small wrapper package body belonging to the Oracle Human Resources (HRMS) Business Process Library (BPL) layer, the component of the E-Business Suite that exposes shared business logic services to forms, concurrent programs, and other PL/SQL packages. In the Oracle EBS 12.1.1 and 12.2.2 releases the BPL packages act as stable, upwardly supported entry points into underlying infrastructure, allowing callers to avoid hard-coding dependencies on lower-level utilities. This particular package body is classified in the ETRM metadata as an OTHER API, indicating that it is an internal framework utility rather than a public, documented application programming interface intended for customer extension. Its single documented function, GET_BIS_GLOBAL_START_DATE, exposes the Business Intelligence System (BIS) global start date — the system-wide baseline date used by HRMS reporting and business intelligence features — through the BPL naming convention. The package carries the header identifier hribprm.pkb, version 120.0, last modified in November 2005, which is consistent with the 12.1.1 code line and remains unchanged in 12.2.2.

Key Procedures and Functions

The package body documents exactly one callable unit:

• GET_BIS_GLOBAL_START_DATE — a function returning a DATE. It performs no processing of its own; its body simply returns the value obtained from bis_common_parameters.get_global_start_date, the lower-level BIS package that owns the actual retrieval logic. The wrapper therefore exists to present the global start date through the HRI_BPL_PARAMETER interface so that HRMS forms and packages need not reference BIS internals directly.

No parameters are documented for this function, and no other procedures or functions are listed in the ETRM metadata for this package body. The implementation is a straightforward pass-through, with no exception handling, caching, or conditional logic declared.

Tables Accessed

The ETRM metadata records no tables referenced through APPS synonyms by this package body. This is expected: the wrapper delegates all data access to BIS_COMMON_PARAMETERS, which internally resolves the global start date, typically from BIS system parameter storage rather than from an HRMS application table. Because HRI_BPL_PARAMETER itself issues no SQL, it presents no direct read or write exposure to application tables and generates no direct table-level dependencies in the ETRM dependency listing.

Usage Notes

HRI_BPL_PARAMETER is an internal framework package. It is not intended for direct invocation from custom code, and Oracle does not document it as a supported extension point. In practice it is invoked indirectly: the ETRM metadata records that five other packages reference it, so calls arrive through HRMS business process flows, such as HRMS reporting and intelligence functions that must establish the BIS global start date as a lower bound for date-range logic. Because the function merely forwards to BIS_COMMON_PARAMETERS.GET_GLOBAL_START_DATE, the returned value reflects whatever the BIS layer currently exposes as the global start date configured for the instance. Developers diagnosing the search term "get_bis_global_start_date" should recognise this object as a thin BPL wrapper; the authoritative implementation, and any troubleshooting of unexpected return values, belongs to BIS_COMMON_PARAMETERS. Customizations should call the BIS package or the documented HRMS public APIs rather than this package, and any modification to the body risks invalidating the five dependent packages that rely on its interface.