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Overview

APPS.BOM_PA_UTIL is a utility package in the Oracle E-Business Suite Bills of Material (BOM) module, created to support Project Manufacturing (PA) integration. The package specification carries the header identifier BOMPAUTS.pls and was initially created on 27-JUN-2003 by Refai Farook, as recorded in the source history block. The package is declared AUTHID CURRENT_USER, meaning that its unqualified references to database objects resolve against the schema of the calling session rather than against the APPS schema itself. This is a deliberate design choice for a lookup utility that is expected to be invoked from multiple contexts, including from within the BOM and Project Manufacturing application logic and from customer extensions.

The functional purpose of BOM_PA_UTIL is to return descriptive text values for project-related identifiers. Rather than exposing raw numeric primary keys for lifecycle and phase codes, the package provides translation functions that convert those identifiers into their human-readable names. In practice, the package serves as a thin, reusable wrapper over the underlying Oracle Projects lookup data, allowing BOM-related code to resolve lifecycle and phase identifiers without embedding direct queries against the Projects tables in every calling program.

Key Procedures and Functions

The documented specification exposes two functions, both of which are value-returning and free of side effects:

• GET_LIFECYCLE — Accepts a lifecycle identifier and returns the corresponding lifecycle name as a VARCHAR2. This function supports resolution of project lifecycle codes used in project manufacturing and project-based BOM contexts, where a lifecycle identifies the sequence of phases a project progresses through.
• GET_PHASE — Accepts a phase identifier and returns the corresponding phase name as a VARCHAR2. This is the function most commonly referenced by developers searching for phase-related logic in BOM project manufacturing flows; it translates a stored phase ID into the displayable phase value used in project and task structures.

Both functions carry PRAGMA RESTRICT_REFERENCES declarations asserting WNDS (Write No Database State) and WNPS (Write No Package State). These pragmas confirm that neither function performs DML or modifies package-level state, making them safe to invoke from SQL statements and from contexts that require purity guarantees, such as function-based indexes and certain forms triggers.

Tables Accessed

The ETRM metadata for this package identifies no directly documented table references through APPS synonyms, and no other packages are documented as referencing it. This is consistent with a specification-only utility whose implementation resolves lifecycle and phase descriptions from Oracle Projects reference data. Consumers should treat the internal read sources as implementation details and rely solely on the documented function contracts rather than assuming a stable table dependency.

Usage Notes

BOM_PA_UTIL is a lightweight lookup helper. It is typically invoked from custom PL/SQL code, forms personalizations, or concurrent program logic that needs to display or validate a project lifecycle or phase name given a stored identifier. Because the functions are declared with restrictive purity pragmas, they may also be called directly from SQL statements. The package is documented as having no inbound references from other documented packages, so it should be regarded as a leaf-level utility rather than a central integration point. When extending project manufacturing logic in EBS 12.1.1 or 12.2.2, calling these functions is preferable to writing ad hoc joins against the Projects reference tables, as it centralizes the translation logic and honors the original design intent of the package.