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Overview
INV_RELEASE is a lightweight utility package in the Oracle E-Business Suite Inventory (INV) application whose sole purpose is to expose patchset release-level constants to other PL/SQL code. It is not a business-logic package: it does not process inventory transactions, manage material, or drive concurrent programs. Instead, it acts as a central registry of version identifiers, allowing dependent packages to determine, at runtime, which patchset level of the Inventory module is installed in a given environment.
By centralizing these values, the package shields calling code from hard-coded version literals. A dependent package can call the appropriate getter function and branch its logic based on the returned release level, which is the classic Oracle EBS mechanism for maintaining backward compatibility across patchsets.
Key Procedures and Functions
The documented interface exposes four functions, each a trivial pass-through returning a package-level global constant:
- GET_I_RELEASE_LEVEL — returns the numeric patchset I release level for the Inventory module. It reads the global constant G_I_RELEASE_LEVEL.
- GET_J_RELEASE_LEVEL — returns the numeric patchset J release level, sourced from the global constant G_J_RELEASE_LEVEL.
- GET_K_RELEASE_LEVEL — returns the numeric patchset K release level, sourced from the global constant G_K_RELEASE_LEVEL.
- GET_OPTLOTSUPPORT_LEVEL — returns the release level associated with opt-lot (optional lot) support, used by callers that need to test whether the installed patchset includes the corresponding feature set.
The package body also declares the package name constant G_PKG_NAME (VARCHAR2(30)), used for standard EBS error-handling and message routines. No parameters are documented for any of the functions; each takes no arguments and simply returns the corresponding constant value.
Tables Accessed
No tables are accessed. The documentation records no referenced tables via APPS synonyms, which is consistent with the package's design: every function returns a compile-time constant rather than querying the database. This makes INV_RELEASE extremely cheap to invoke and free of SQL parsing or I/O overhead.
Usage Notes
INV_RELEASE is referenced by 25 other packages within the E-Business Suite, confirming its role as a shared version-detection utility rather than an end-user-facing module. It is not invoked from a form, concurrent program, or user interface directly. Typical invocation is from the initialization or guarded logic of other PL/SQL packages that must behave differently depending on the installed Inventory patchset—for example, enabling a newer code path only when GET_K_RELEASE_LEVEL or GET_OPTLOTSUPPORT_LEVEL reports a sufficient level.
The package is classified as OTHER in the API classification scheme (2012.2 metadata), meaning it is an internal, non-public utility rather than a supported public API. Customizations should not depend on it, and Oracle may change its contents across patchsets. Its header tag (120.0) indicates it was last modified for the 11i-era code line and carried forward into 12.1.1 and 12.2.2 unchanged, underscoring that it exists purely for compatibility tracking rather than functional processing.