Search Results get_user_serial_numbers

Overview

The APPS.INV_DETAIL_SERIAL_PUB package body is a public (PUB-classified) PL/SQL API belonging to the Oracle Inventory application module. Its business purpose is to resolve and return the set of serial numbers applicable to a specific inventory transaction context. Serial number control is a core Inventory capability that allows organizations to track individually identified units of an item through receiving, storage, movement, and issue. The INV_DETAIL_SERIAL_PUB package supports this capability by exposing an API that determines which serial numbers a user may select or is required to provide when a transaction detail line is entered.

The package is identified by its global constant g_pkg_name set to 'INV_DETAIL_SERIAL_PUB', and it exposes a package version string derived from the header $Header: INVSRSTB.pls 115.0 2003/11/25 20:47:36 jsheu noship $. The suffix noship in the header comment is significant. It indicates that the source file was marked as not for shipment at that revision — that is, the delivered body was a stub placeholder rather than a fully implemented API. The ETRM metadata confirms that the package contains only a single documented procedure, and the source excerpt shows that procedure contains no functional logic beyond initializing the API return status.

Key Procedures and Functions

The package body declares one documented procedure:

• GET_USER_SERIAL_NUMBERS — The single public entry point of the package. Its purpose is to retrieve the serial numbers that a user may specify (or that the transaction demands) for a given inventory transaction line. Based on the source excerpt, the procedure accepts an extensive set of input parameters that describe the transaction context — including organization, inventory item, revision, lot number, subinventory code, and locator — together with serial quantity and range-related inputs and demand source references. Its output surface consists of the standard Oracle EBS API return channel (x_return_status, x_msg_count, x_msg_data) plus an output parameter named x_serial_numbers, typed against INV_DETAIL_UTIL_PVT.G_SERIAL_ROW_TABLE_REC. That output type is a table/record collection structure defined in the Inventory detail utility private package, suited to returning multiple serial rows in a single call. No other procedures or functions are documented for this package.

Tables Accessed

The available ETRM metadata documents no tables referenced through APPS synonyms for this package body. This is consistent with the stub nature of the source. Because GET_USER_SERIAL_NUMBERS contains no executable business logic — its body immediately initializes x_return_status to fnd_api.g_ret_sts_success and then falls through — no SQL statements against inventory tables are issued. A fully implemented version of such an API would ordinarily read serial number master data and transaction-level serial associations, but no such access is present in the documented revision, and none should be assumed.

Usage Notes

The ETRM metadata records that this package is referenced by two other packages, indicating that it forms part of the call graph of higher-level Inventory serial-processing logic. However, the source version documented (115.0, dated 2003) is explicitly a stub. In the exception handler the body again returns fnd_api.g_ret_sts_success, with an inline comment stating that this is "for stub purposes" and should be replaced with appropriate error handling when implemented. Consequently, callers in Oracle EBS 12.1.1 and 12.2.2 that invoke GET_USER_SERIAL_NUMBERS will receive a success status and no meaningful serial set.

From a customization and extension standpoint, this package is not a reliable integration point in its delivered form. Developers who require programmatic retrieval of user-selectable serial numbers should treat the documented stub as illustrative of the intended signature rather than as a functioning service, and should verify behavior against the actual installed revision in their environment before depending on it. The naming convention (_PUB) and the use of fnd_api return conventions confirm that the API was designed for public consumption by other Oracle EBS modules and custom code, but the delivered implementation in this revision does not fulfill that contract.