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Overview

USER_PKG_SERIAL is a PL/SQL package body owned by the APPS schema in Oracle E-Business Suite. As documented in the ETRM repository for releases 12.1.1 and 12.2.2, it carries an API classification of OTHER and exposes a single documented entry point, GENERATE_SERIAL_NUMBER. Its name and procedure suggest a narrowly scoped utility function: producing unique serial numbers for consumption by other EBS components or by custom extensions.

The package is cataloged as VALID in the APPS schema. Unlike many EBS public APIs that wrap a business object such as an order, invoice, or employee, USER_PKG_SERIAL appears to be a low-level utility package. It is not part of a documented public API family, and it is not listed among the seeded, supported interfaces that Oracle documents for external integration. Nevertheless, it maintains the structural conventions common to EBS PL/SQL: it depends on FND_API and FND_MSG_PUB, indicating that it participates in the standard EBS error-handling and message-stack framework.

Key Procedures and Functions

The documented metadata lists one procedure or function: GENERATE_SERIAL_NUMBER. The procedure name indicates that its purpose is to generate a serial number value, presumably returning the generated value to the caller and, where invoked inside a DML context, making it available for assignment to a serial-numbered entity. The ETRM record does not expose the parameter list, so no signature is reproduced here. The single entry point confirms that the package is not a broad functional library but a targeted utility whose contract is limited to serial-number generation.

Tables Accessed

The documented metadata for USER_PKG_SERIAL does not list any tables referenced through APPS synonyms. Its documented dependencies are limited to other PL/SQL units and the SYS STANDARD package:

• APPS.FND_API — the standard EBS API framework, used for return-status and exception conventions.
• APPS.FND_MSG_PUB — the standard EBS message dictionary package, used to raise and manage messages on the message stack.
• APPS.USER_PKG_SERIAL — the package body references its own specification, a normal artifact of package-body compilation.
• SYS.STANDARD — the built-in PL/SQL package.

Because no application tables are documented as dependencies, the package does not appear to read or write business data directly. A serial-number generator of this kind would typically be implemented using sequences, timestamps, or deterministic derivation, rather than by querying a table. Any sequence used would not appear in the dependency list because sequences are not recorded as object dependencies in this form.

Usage Notes

The package is documented as not referenced by any other database object, which is consistent with a utility that is purpose-built for a specific integration point. It is most likely invoked from:

• Custom PL/SQL code or extensions that need a generated serial number without calling a full EBS public API.
• Forms or concurrent programs integrated with a serial-numbered business process, where a caller supplies the generated value to the relevant API.
• Interface or conversion routines that must stamp a unique serial identifier onto inbound data.

Because the parameter list and internal behavior are not exposed in the ETRM metadata, developers should verify the actual signature in the database before use and should treat the package as an internal, non-public utility. Direct invocation is feasible but unsupported, and behavior may vary between point releases. Where a supported serial-number facility exists in the relevant product module, that facility should be preferred.