Results for “pay_us_magw2_reporting”

AI-generated from documented ETRM metadata — verify critical details on the linked pages.

Overview

PAY_US_MAGW2_REPORTING is a PL/SQL package owned by the APPS schema in Oracle E-Business Suite (documented for 12.1.1 and 12.2.2) that supports the generation of magnetic tape W2 reports required by United States legislative and regulatory requirements. According to the ETRM metadata, the package was created on 25-June-1998 and was designed to incorporate magtape resilience together with the new end-of-year design introduced by Oracle Payroll for US legislative reporting.

The package operates on a two-stage model. The first stage validates that the year-end pre-processor has been run for all GREs (Government Reporting Entities) and assignments; if this precondition is not satisfied, the process terminates with an error rather than proceeding. The second stage creates a payroll action for the report, identifies all assignments to be reported, and records an assignment action against that payroll action for each assignment. The generic magnetic tape process then drives off the data created in stage two, producing a structured ASCII file that can be transferred to magnetic tape and submitted to the relevant tax authority.

Because the source of each report is a structured ASCII file, the package also encapsulates the resilience logic necessary to regenerate or re-sequence magtape output reliably across the end-of-year cycle.

Key Procedures and Functions

The ETRM documentation registers six documented program units within the package:

• PREPROCESS_CHECK — validates that the year-end pre-processor has run for all GREs and assignments before any reporting activity is allowed to continue. It is the gatekeeper that prevents production of incorrect W2 magtape files.
• CREATE_ASSIGNMENT_ACT — creates the payroll action for the report and records an assignment action against it for each assignment identified for reporting.
• BAL_DB_ITEM — retrieves or resolves balance database item information used in building the reported amounts.
• GET_BALANCE_VALUE — returns the balance value required for a given reporting element, supporting the derived figures that appear on the W2 output.
• GET_REPORT_PARAMETERS — obtains the parameters that drive report generation, including the state or jurisdiction-specific settings that determine which format and filing rules apply.
• RANGE_CURSOR — provides the range cursor used to select and order the assignments or records that participate in the report.

Parameter lists are not enumerated here because they are not part of the documented metadata; the descriptions above reflect purpose only.

Tables Accessed

The package accesses the following tables through APPS synonyms:

• PAY_PAYROLL_ACTIONS and PAY_ASSIGNMENT_ACTIONS (with the _S variant) — the payroll action and assignment action rows created during report preparation.
• PAY_ACTION_INTERLOCKS — used historically to pick up assignment_action_id values when populating the supplement and transmitter structures.
• PAY_DEFINED_BALANCES and FF_DATABASE_ITEMS (with FF_ARCHIVE_ITEMS, FF_ARCHIVE_ITEM_CONTEXTS, and FF_CONTEXTS) — provide the balance and database item definitions required to compute reported amounts.
• FF_USER_ENTITIES — supplies the user entity context for the legislative reporting definitions.
• PAY_US_STATES and PAY_STATE_RULES — supply state-specific filing and format rules.
• HR_ORGANIZATION_INFORMATION — provides organization-level attributes, including the school district and GRE information referenced in the package history.
• PAY_MESSAGE_LINES — used for diagnostic and error messaging, including the pre-processor failure conditions.
• DUAL — used for single-row utility queries.

Usage Notes

PAY_US_MAGW2_REPORTING is normally invoked indirectly rather than called directly by end users. It is driven by the US year-end W2 magnetic tape reporting flow, in which the Payroll Year End Pre-Processor must be completed first. The package is referenced by no other packages, per the ETRM metadata, indicating that it sits at the top of its own call path and is invoked from the concurrent program or form layer that submits the US W2 magtape report.

Customers searching for "wishsecure reports" should note that no such object exists in the Oracle EBS data model. The metadata above corresponds to the statutory US W2 magnetic tape reporting functionality; any custom or third-party report with a similar name would be a separate development layered on top of the standard payroll reporting tables and would not be part of the APPS.PAY_US_MAGW2_REPORTING package.