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Overview

The APPS.IBC_LABELS_GRP package is a PL/SQL group (GRP) API within Oracle E-Business Suite, belonging to the IBC (iStore/Content) application module. Its stated purpose, as recorded in the package header, is to serve as an API to populate Content Type label data. The package follows the standard Oracle EBS API design pattern, adopting AUTHID CURRENT_USER execution semantics and exposing a group-type interface that bundles record and table type definitions together with the public procedures that operate on them.

The package defines two central PL/SQL data structures: Label_Rec_Type, a record representing a single label with attributes such as LABEL_CODE, LABEL_NAME, DESCRIPTION, audit columns (CREATED_BY, CREATION_DATE, LAST_UPDATED_BY, LAST_UPDATE_DATE, LAST_UPDATE_LOGIN), and OBJECT_VERSION_NUMBER for optimistic locking; and Label_Tbl_Type, a PL/SQL associative array indexed by BINARY_INTEGER that allows bulk processing of multiple label records in a single API call. Global "miss" (default) instances of both structures are declared for use as sentinel or default parameter values.

Key Procedures and Functions

The ETRM metadata documents three public procedures on this package:

• CREATE_LABELS — Creates one or more label records. Per the API header comments, it accepts a standard API version number, an initialization message list flag, a commit flag, a validation level, and a content type record, together with an input label table. It returns the standard EBS API out parameters: x_return_status, x_msg_count, and x_msg_data, plus an output label table. This is the primary entry point for bulk label insertion.
• UPDATE_LABELS — Modifies existing label records. Following the same group API conventions, it processes a table of label rows and applies changes to matching records, returning standard status and message outputs.
• DELETE_LABEL — Removes a label record. As a singular operation it targets one label at a time, consistent with the EBS convention of providing a single-record delete alongside bulk create and update operations.

All procedures adhere to the Oracle Application Object Library (AOL) API framework, supporting the FND_API.G_FALSE defaults for p_init_msg_list and p_commit, and FND_API.G_VALID_LEVEL_FULL as the default validation level.

Tables Accessed

The package operates against the following tables reached through APPS synonyms:

• IBC_LABELS_B — The base table storing label definitions. The _B suffix indicates this is the base (non-translated) entity table holding the core label attributes defined in Label_Rec_Type. All three procedures ultimately read from or write to this table.
• PLITBLM — A standard EBS message table used by the FND message-handling framework to retrieve and store API error and information messages generated during validation and processing. Its presence confirms the package integrates with the standard AOL error-stack mechanism surfaced through x_msg_count and x_msg_data.

Usage Notes

IBC_LABELS_GRP is intended for programmatic consumption rather than direct end-user invocation. It is typically called from:

• iStore/Content administration forms that manage content types and their associated labels.
• Concurrent programs and data-load routines that bulk-populate label metadata during implementation or migration.
• Custom code and integration scripts that require a supported, validation-aware interface for creating, updating, or deleting label records without bypassing business rules.

Because the metadata records zero dependent packages, the API is a leaf-level utility, minimizing regression risk when modified. Callers should always check x_return_status against FND_API.G_RET_STS_SUCCESS and inspect the message stack via FND_MSG_PUB before proceeding, particularly given the small 115.2 version baseline (last modified November 2002), which suggests the package is stable and unlikely to have changed materially across the 12.1.1 and 12.2.2 releases.