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GL_GLXRLCOA_XMLP_PKG is the generated PL/SQL package body that supports the Oracle E-Business Suite General Ledger XML Publisher (BI Publisher) report identified internally as GLXRLCOA. The suffix XMLP_PKG indicates that the package is produced by the Oracle Reports-to-XML Publisher migration utility, which wraps a traditional Oracle Reports definition into a concurrent-program-compatible PL/SQL structure. Its principal business function is to expose the lexical SQL fragments, bind references, and layout placeholders required by the Chart of Accounts listing and related General Ledger reporting queries, so that the XML Publisher data template can assemble a valid extraction statement at runtime.

The package is a thin orchestration layer rather than a repository of business logic. It defines the BeforeReport and AfterReport report triggers and a set of accessor functions that surface package-level placeholders to the XML Publisher engine. The heavy lifting of selecting chart of accounts combinations, balances, and segment values is performed by the SQL embedded in the associated data template, using the strings supplied by this package.

Key Procedures and Functions

The package exposes ten documented program units, all of which are simple and deterministic.

  • AFTERREPORT — Report-level trigger executed after the data extraction completes. In the shipped source the body is effectively a null operation; the historical FND SRWEXIT call is commented out because XML Publisher manages session teardown itself.
  • BEFOREREPORT — Report-level trigger executed before extraction. It performs no active work; the FND SRWINIT call is commented out, and the body consists of references to the report parameters P_STRUCT_NUM, P_ORDERBY_SEG, P_FLEX_HIGH, and P_FLEX_LOW. These references exist only to satisfy the Oracle Reports parser and the XML Publisher placeholder mechanism.
  • FLEX_SELECT_ALL_P — Returns the FLEX_SELECT_ALL placeholder, furnishing the select list used when the report operates across all account combinations.
  • FLEX_SELECT_BAL_P — Returns the FLEX_SELECT_BAL placeholder, supplying the select list used for balance-oriented queries.
  • FLEX_SELECT_SEG_P — Returns the FLEX_SELECT_SEG placeholder, supplying the select list used for segment-level queries.
  • FLEX_ORDERBY_ALL_P — Returns the FLEX_ORDERBY_ALL placeholder, providing the ORDER BY clause for the all-combinations variant.
  • FLEX_ORDERBY_BAL_P — Returns the FLEX_ORDERBY_BAL placeholder, providing the ORDER BY clause for balance reporting.
  • FLEX_ORDERBY_SEG_P — Returns the FLEX_ORDERBY_SEG placeholder, providing the ORDER BY clause derived from the P_ORDERBY_SEG parameter.
  • FLEX_WHERE_ALL_P — Returns the FLEX_WHERE_ALL placeholder, supplying the WHERE predicate for the all-combinations query.
  • FLEX_NODATA_SELECT_ALL_P — Returns the FLEX_NODATA_SELECT_ALL placeholder, used to construct the select list for the no-data condition.

Tables Accessed

The documented metadata records no direct table references through APPS synonyms. This is expected: the package contains no DML or embedded SELECT statements. All database access is deferred to the XML Publisher data template, which reads General Ledger chart of accounts and account combination data using the flexfield view and the SQL fragments returned by the accessor functions. Consequently, the package itself neither inserts, updates, deletes, nor queries base tables directly.

Usage Notes

This package is invoked indirectly by the concurrent program that runs the GLXRLCOA report. The XML Publisher engine calls BEFOREREPORT before execution and AFTERREPORT on completion, and resolves the FLEX_*_P functions to obtain the dynamic SQL components required for the General Ledger flexfield listing. Because the FLEX_SELECT, FLEX_ORDERBY, and FLEX_WHERE strings depend on the key flexfield structure passed through P_STRUCT_NUM, correct behavior requires that a valid chart of accounts structure number be supplied at submission time.

The package is referenced by no other PL/SQL package, and no other package depends on it. Customization should therefore be limited to the underlying XML Publisher data template and report definition; modifying the generated package body directly is not recommended, as it may be regenerated during patching or upgrades. The package is compatible with both Oracle EBS 12.1.1 and 12.2.2, and its behavior is unchanged across those releases.