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Overview

IBC_UTILITIES_PUB is a public PL/SQL package body owned by the APPS schema in Oracle E-Business Suite. It forms part of the Oracle iMarketing / iStore content management infrastructure, where the "IBC" prefix designates the marketing and content authoring components of the EBS application family. The package is classified as a public (PUB) API within the ETRM (E-Business Suite Technical Reference Manual) repository, meaning its interface is intended for consumption by other EBS modules and, where documented, by customer extension code. The header comment embedded in the source, $Header: ibcputlb.pls 115.2 2002/10/03 22:30:41 vicho ship $, indicates the file was last shipped in the 11.5.x release family and has remained stable, carried forward into the 12.1.1 and 12.2.2 application releases without substantive change. The package's stated purpose is to centralize shared utility logic used across the iMarketing/iStore content-processing stack, exposing reusable routines that avoid duplication of common tasks such as identifier resolution, session and context retrieval, and data validation.

Key Procedures and Functions

The ETRM metadata records no documented procedures or functions for this package body; the extracted source excerpt consists solely of the package header, the declaration block, and the terminating END Ibc_Utilities_Pub; statement. The declaration section establishes the package's internal scaffolding rather than its callable surface. It defines two package-level constants: G_PKG_NAME, holding the literal 'IBC_Utilities_Pub' for use in error-handling and logging messages, and G_FILE_NAME, holding 'ibcputlb.pls' to identify the source file in diagnostic output. It further initializes five global variables from the FND_GLOBAL server-side context API — G_APPL_ID (FND_GLOBAL.Prog_Appl_Id), G_LOGIN_ID (FND_GLOBAL.Conc_Login_Id), G_PROGRAM_ID (FND_GLOBAL.Conc_Program_Id), G_USER_ID (FND_GLOBAL.User_Id), and G_REQUEST_ID (FND_GLOBAL.Conc_Request_Id). These session-scoped values are captured once at package instantiation and made available to all routines in the body, which is the standard Oracle EBS pattern for attributing database operations to the correct application, user, and concurrent request. Although the ETRM record lists zero documented procedures, the EBS coding convention reflected here — a componentized layout with clearly delineated FUNCTION and PROCEDURE sections — implies that the shipped body contains one or more utility routines whose specifications reside in the corresponding package specification, IBC_UTILITIES_PUB is referenced by eleven other packages, confirming that it functions as a shared dependency in the iMarketing call graph.

Tables Accessed

The ETRM metadata does not enumerate any tables referenced through APPS synonyms for this package. Given the utility nature of the code and the absence of DML in the documented excerpt, it is consistent with the metadata that IBC_UTILITIES_PUB performs no direct inserts, updates, or deletes against application tables. Utility packages of this class typically operate on PL/SQL data structures and FND_GLOBAL context rather than persisting data themselves, delegating any table access to the calling modules. Where the package does read base data, it would do so through APPS synonyms under the standard EBS naming and grants conventions, but no such references are confirmed in the available documentation.

Usage Notes

IBC_UTILITIES_PUB is an internal infrastructure package rather than an end-user-facing API. Its eleven inbound package references indicate that it is invoked programmatically by sibling packages in the iMarketing and iStore codebase, typically during concurrent program execution or from within OA Framework-based application logic. Because the package captures concurrent request and login context at initialization, it is safe to call in both concurrent manager and online (Forms/OAF) sessions, provided the FND_GLOBAL context is properly initialized beforehand. Custom code should invoke the package only through its declared specification, never by referencing the body directly, and should avoid depending on the package-level globals, which reflect the state of the initializing session and are not re-evaluated per call. Customers upgrading from 12.1.1 to 12.2.2 can treat the package as stable; the 115.2 version stamp and unchanged header suggest the documented public interface has not been revised across these releases.