Search Results pay_sa_payment_status_pkg

Overview

The APPS.PAY_SA_PAYMENT_STATUS_PKG package is a payroll-related PL/SQL utility delivered as part of the Oracle E-Business Suite Payroll (PAY) application. Its business function is to determine the payment status of a specific payroll assignment action so that the Saudi Payroll Register can display or process the correct outcome. The header comment identifies the package purpose explicitly: it "contains function for checking the status of payment for Saudi Payroll Register." This places the package within the Oracle HRMS localization layer for Saudi Arabia, where pre-payment and payment processing must be verified before the payroll register is finalized or reported.

The package was created on 08-June-2009 by B. Keshary under bug 7648285 and carries version identifier 120.0.12010000.2. It is defined with AUTHID CURRENT_USER, meaning it executes with the privileges of the invoking user rather than the package owner. In the ETRM 12.2.2 metadata, the package is owned by APPS and classified as OTHER, a category used for objects that are not formal public APIs but are referenced by application logic or localization extensions.

Key Procedures and Functions

The package exposes a single documented function: GET_SA_PAYMENT_STATUS. Its stated purpose is to return the payment status associated with a given payroll assignment action. The function returns a VARCHAR2 value, which is consistent with status lookups that return descriptive or code-based status indicators rather than numeric results. The package specification is minimal — it contains only this one function and no additional procedures — which reflects its narrow, targeted role in the Saudi payroll register process. The function is not documented as a public API, so it should be treated as an internal helper rather than a supported integration point.

Tables Accessed

According to the documented package metadata, GET_SA_PAYMENT_STATUS references five base tables through APPS synonyms:

• PAY_ASSIGNMENT_ACTIONS — the core payroll action record for an assignment; supplies the assignment action context used by the status check.
• PAY_ACTION_INFORMATION — stores action-level information, including status and processing data relevant to the payment determination.
• PAY_ACTION_INTERLOCKS — records interlock relationships between actions, which can indicate whether a payment-related action has completed or is blocked.
• PAY_PAYROLL_ACTIONS — holds payroll run/action definitions, providing the payroll action context associated with the assignment action.
• PAY_PRE_PAYMENTS — stores pre-payment records, which are central to determining whether payment has been issued or is pending.

Together these tables allow the function to correlate the assignment action with its payroll action, check interlock conditions, and inspect pre-payment entries to derive the payment status returned to the caller.

Usage Notes

This package is a localization-specific (Saudi Arabia) utility and is not referenced by any other documented packages in the ETRM 12.2.2 metadata, indicating it is invoked directly rather than through a public API chain. Typical invocation scenarios include the Saudi Payroll Register process, where the register logic must confirm payment status before producing output. It may be called from concurrent program logic, from a payroll register report or form, or from custom localization code developed for Saudi payroll. Because it is classified as OTHER and is not a published API, developers should avoid relying on it as a stable integration interface; any custom code that calls GET_SA_PAYMENT_STATUS should be validated against the specific EBS release (12.1.1 or 12.2.2) in use, since internal localization packages can change without the compatibility guarantees that apply to public APIs. Customers who do not operate Saudi Arabian payroll will generally find no active use for this package.