Search Results proc_futr_act

Overview

The concurrent program GHR_INIT_PROC_FUTURE_SF52 belongs to the GHR — US Federal Human Resources product family within Oracle E-Business Suite. Its documented purpose is to initiate processing of future-dated Standard Form 52 (SF52) records that have reached their due date and therefore become eligible for processing. The SF52 is the U.S. federal government form used to request personnel actions, and within Oracle EBS it is stored against the HR person and assignment records managed by the GHR application. This program serves as the scheduled driver that sweeps pending, future-dated SF52 transactions and hands them to the processing executable.

In the ETRM 12.2.2 metadata the user-facing name is rendered as Process Future Dated RPA — Obsolete. The use of the term "RPA" here reflects the historical naming convention used for "Request for Personnel Action" records, which the SF52 instantiates. The inclusion of "Obsolete" indicates that the program has been superseded by an alternative mechanism and should not be enabled for new schedules. Consistent with this, the metadata records Enabled: No, meaning the program is retained for audit, upgrade, and historical traceability but is not intended to be actively submitted.

Execution Details

The ETRM documentation specifies the following execution characteristics for the program:

• Execution Method: PL/SQL Stored Procedure
• Argument Method: Standard
• Executable: GHR_FUTURE_SF52
• Execution Filename: ghr_process_sf52.proc_futr_act

The execution filename confirms the underlying PL/SQL package and entry point. The package is ghr_process_sf52 and the invoked routine is proc_futr_act — the "future action" procedure. This matches the search term associated with the object, as proc_futr_act is the actual stored procedure identifier that Oracle EBS resolves when the concurrent program is launched. Because the execution method is a stored procedure rather than a Java or host-based executable, the program runs entirely within the database session, subject to the standard concurrent manager environment (session parameters, application context, and responsibility-based security).

How to Run

Programs of this type are submitted through the Standard Request Submission (SRS) window. A user operating under a GHR responsibility would navigate to the Submit Requests form, query the program by its user-facing name Process Future Dated RPA — Obsolete, and supply any required parameters before running it. Because the argument method is Standard, parameter prompts are defined directly on the concurrent program definition and validated by the concurrent manager. Typical guidance for future-dated SF52 processing requires an effective date or processing-cutoff date so that only actions whose due date falls on or before that date are selected. The program may also rely on the effective date of the user's HR session to establish the business group and security profile.

Practitioners should note that, since the program is documented as Enabled: No and its user name includes "Obsolete," direct submission is generally neither supported nor recommended. Where a need to process future-dated SF52 actions arises in 12.1.1 or 12.2.2, the replacement functionality should be identified through the latest GHR patch documentation. Administrators reviewing old schedules should confirm that no active concurrent manager schedule still references GHR_INIT_PROC_FUTURE_SF52.

Related Objects

The program operates within the GHR Personnel Action framework. Related items include:

• Executable GHR_FUTURE_SF52 — the concurrent executable definition that points to the PL/SQL package.
• Package ghr_process_sf52 — the PL/SQL package housing proc_futr_act, which performs the actual selection and processing logic.
• SF52 / RPA records — the personnel action requests stored in GHR action tables, which are read and transitioned by this routine.
• Concurrent manager (Standard Manager or a GHR-dedicated manager) — required to run the program when enabled.
• Request Groups and Responsibilities — the security containers that would have exposed the program to users in prior releases.

Because the metadata indicates the object is obsolete, integration with interface or staging tables should be validated against current GHR documentation before reuse.