Search Results get_product_category_set_fk

Overview

The APPS.EDW_ITEMCUSTOM_M_C package body belongs to the Oracle E-Business Suite data warehousing and business intelligence layer, specifically the EDW (Enterprise Data Warehouse) item dimension extraction family. The package is owned by APPS and is classified as OTHER in the ETRM repository, indicating that it is not a public API for transactional data manipulation but rather an internal utility used to support the materialized view and staging logic that populates the item custom dimension table (the _MC suffix denotes a materialized-view container or extract staging object).

The header comment $Header: ENIITCSB.pls 115.0 2002/05/08 12:15:49 pkm ship $ confirms the package originated in the ENI (Enterprise Intelligence) product family and has been stable since version 115.0. The package exposes a single function, GET_PRODUCT_CATEGORY_SET_FK, whose purpose is to supply a default or placeholder foreign key value for the product category set dimension when the corresponding source data is unavailable in the EBS instance. In EDW terminology, a "category set FK" is the dimensional surrogate key that links an item to its product category hierarchy.

Key Procedures and Functions

The package body documents exactly one callable unit: GET_PRODUCT_CATEGORY_SET_FK. It is a scalar function returning a VARCHAR2 value.

• GET_PRODUCT_CATEGORY_SET_FK — Returns the foreign key identifying the product category set associated with a combination of inventory item, organization, and instance code. In the shipped implementation the local variable Prod_FK is initialized to the literal 'NA_EDW' and returned unconditionally, meaning the function acts as a not-applicable sentinel generator. Downstream EDW extract and load routines rely on this constant to populate the category set FK column when no valid category assignment exists, preserving referential consistency with the EDW dimension table.

No additional procedures, private helpers, or overloaded signatures are declared; the body terminates immediately after this function. The absence of loops, cursors, or DML confirms the function is a pure, side-effect-free lookup.

Tables Accessed

The ETRM metadata records no APPS-synonym table references for this package body. Because the shipped implementation returns a hard-coded value, the function performs no SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, or DELETE against any base table, interface table, or staging table. This is consistent with a placeholder implementation that vendors or customers may later extend to query MTL_ITEM_CATEGORIES, MTL_CATEGORY_SETS, or a custom EDW mapping table when functional category logic is required.

Usage Notes

The package is referenced by one other database package according to the ETRM dependency graph. Typical invocation occurs during concurrent program execution of the EDW item dimension load, where the caller supplies the inventory item ID, organization ID, and instance code and receives the category set FK for insertion into the materialized view source query. Because the function is deterministic and parameterless in its behavior, invocations are inexpensive and safe to call repeatedly within a single load run.

In Oracle EBS 12.1.1 and 12.2.2 the package compiles and executes identically; no editioning or online-patching differences apply. Customizations should extend rather than replace the body, since the one dependent package expects the 'NA_EDW' sentinel to remain available for rows lacking category data. The p_instance_code parameter permits multi-organization or multi-instance extract scenarios to be distinguished by the caller, even though the shipped body ignores it.