Search Results get_global_description

Overview

APPS.JL_ZZ_INV_LIBRARY_1_PKG is a small, single-purpose PL/SQL package body belonging to the Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) localization layer associated with the JL schema prefix, which designates regional and country-specific functionality. The object is documented as an OTHER-classified API, meaning it is not exposed as a standard public interface but rather serves as an internal library routine consumed elsewhere in the application. Its header comment (jlzzil1b.pls 115.4 99/07/16) places its origin in the late 1990s, consistent with the code lineage carried forward into EBS 12.1.1 and 12.2.2.

The package's center of gravity is the global descriptive flexfield (DFF) framework. Specifically, it encapsulates a reusable lookup against the descriptive flexfield context definitions, allowing callers to resolve a human-readable global description for a given flexfield name and context combination. The user search term "flex_name" maps directly to the flex_name parameter of the sole documented procedure, confirming that this package exists to support DFF metadata resolution rather than transactional processing.

Key Procedures and Functions

• GET_GLOBAL_DESCRIPTION — The only documented procedure in the package. It accepts a flexfield name, a descriptive flexfield context code, an output description buffer, a row number, and an error code. Its purpose is to retrieve the global description associated with the specified descriptive flexfield context, truncating the returned text and returning a status code. Errors are trapped internally via a WHEN OTHERS handler, and the SQL error code is returned through the output error parameter rather than being raised to the caller.

Tables Accessed

• FND_DESCR_FLEX_CONTEXTS_VL — The descriptive flexfield contexts view is queried to obtain the description column. The query filters on application_id = 7003, the descriptive flexfield name supplied through the flex_name parameter, the context code, and an enabled_flag = 'Y' condition, ensuring only active contexts qualify. The description value is returned via SUBSTR(description, 1, 50), capped at fifty characters. A rownum = row_number predicate lets the caller select a specific row when multiple matches exist.

No other tables, sequences, or DML operations are documented for this package; the operation is read-only against the flexfield context view.

Usage Notes

Because the package is classified as OTHER and is referenced by no other packages per ETRM metadata, it is a leaf-level utility intended for direct invocation by localization forms, concurrent programs, or custom extensions that need to resolve DFF context descriptions. The required application_id = 7003 hard-coding indicates the routine is scoped to a specific Java/regional application product family rather than being generic. Callers should note that the procedure does not raise exceptions outward: any failure is signaled only through the Errcd output, so invoking code must check that value explicitly. Given the package name prefix "ZZ," it is likely a placeholder or custom localization implementation not guaranteed to be present in every environment. Where this object is absent, equivalent functionality is typically derived directly from the FND descriptive flexfield context view.