Incrementing or Manipulating non date concurrent program parameters without a wrapper for scheduling

Recently I came across a scenario where I had to schedule a concurrent program which contained couple of parameters.

One of the parameter was a date parameters and one was a character parameter which was defaulted to a string value based on SYSDATE when submitted from SRS. This was done using program definition defaults.

The program was scheduled with increment date parameters on and we observed that the non date parameter was the same for all schedules. This is because Oracle only increments date parameters and doesn't honor the defaulting logic setup at the concurrent program definitions.

This is a classic problem and everybody knows the classic solution :

Write a wrapper that implements the defaulting logic and submit the program in question. This wrapper program can be then scheduled.

Oracle provides a much less intrusive and a straight forward approach to achieve this common requirement : Concurrent Request Incrementor

An example incrementor procedure is below. Note that we completely take over the incrementing logic and it becomes our responsibility to increment the data parameters too.

PROCEDURE parameter_incrementor

IS

   l_para1         VARCHAR2 (1000);

   l_defaulted_param    VARCHAR2 (1000);

   l_date_param   VARCHAR2 (1000);

   l_param4        VARCHAR2 (1000);

BEGIN

   -- get parameter1 value

   l_para1 := FND_RESUB_PRIVATE.GET_PARAMETER (1);

   -- get paramter4 value

   l_param4 := FND_RESUB_PRIVATE.GET_PARAMETER (4);

-- contruct the string parameter that needs to be used when resubmitting

-- adn aslo increment the date parameter

      SELECT    'XXXXX_'

             || l_para1

             || 'XXXXXXXXX_'

             || TO_CHAR (SYSDATE, 'MMDDYYYY_HH24MISS'),

             TO_CHAR (TO_DATE (l_param4, 'YYYY/MM/DD HH24:MI:SS') + 1,

                      'YYYY/MM/DD HH24:MI:SS')

        INTO l_defaulted_param, l_date_param

        FROM DUAL;

   -- setting parameter values

   FND_RESUB_PRIVATE.SET_PARAMETER (2, l_defaulted_param);

   FND_RESUB_PRIVATE.SET_PARAMETER (3, l_defaulted_param);

   FND_RESUB_PRIVATE.SET_PARAMETER (4, l_date_param);

EXCEPTION

   WHEN OTHERS

   THEN

      RAISE;

END parameter_incrementor;

Now this procedure can be given as the Incrementor function in the program definition window as shown below.

R12 - SQL Query to get payment method for a vendor site

Unlike in 11i, the payment method code for a vendor site is no longer present in ap_supplier_sites_all table in R12. This is now moved to the Oracle Payments module tables.

The below query can be used to get the payment method code for a given vendor site id in R12:

SELECT ieppm.payment_method_code

FROM ap_supplier_sites_all assa,

   ap_suppliers sup,

   iby_external_payees_all iepa,

   iby_ext_party_pmt_mthds ieppm

WHERE sup.vendor_id                     = assa.vendor_id

AND assa.vendor_site_id                 = iepa.supplier_site_id

AND iepa.ext_payee_id                   = ieppm.ext_pmt_party_id

AND NVL(ieppm.inactive_date, SYSDATE+1) > SYSDATE

AND assa.vendor_site_id                 = :vendor_site_id

AND ieppm.primary_flag                  = 'Y'

AND assa.pay_site_flag                  = 'Y';

Using a sequence to default a value in a table column without using triggers

Often times, a default/unique value might be needed to be inserted into a column of a table which can then act as a primary or unique identifier.

The usual methodology will be to do that using a row level trigger which fires on INSERT and updates the column value with the sequence value.

SQL> create trigger tab1
  2  before insert on tab1
  3  for each row
  4  begin
  5    if (:new.x is null)
  6    then
  7       :new.x := s.nextval;
  8    end if;
  9  end;
 10  /
Trigger created. 

This can be replaced by the below method from Oracle Database 12c.

SQL> create sequence s;
Sequence created.
SQL> create table tab1
  2  ( x int
  3      default s.nextval
  4          primary key,
  5    y varchar2(30)
  6  );
Table created.

SQL> insert into tab1 (x,y)
  2  values ( default, 'hello' );
1 row created.

SQL> insert into tab1 (y)
  2  values ( 'world' );
1 row created.

SQL> select * from tab1;

         X  Y
  ————————  ————————
         1  hello
         2  world 

Oracle Applications - Not all Rows have been Retrieved. Data may be inaccurate

This is a warning to indicate that the workbook query extracts a huge number of records.

You can avoid this error by doing as below:

•  Click on Tools -> Options

•     In the Query Governor Tab, make sure the “Limit retrieved query data to” check box is unchecked.

•         Refresh the worksheet. You should not be getting the error now.

Oracle Applications - Getting Journals posted after a cut off time - Oracle GL

select '="'||to_char(to_date(h.period_name,'MON-YY'),'MON-YY')||'"' as period_name
                           ,'="'||to_char(h.posted_date,'DD-MON-YYYY HH24:MI:SS')||'"' as posted_date
                          --,to_char(h.posted_date,v_date_format) as posted_date
                         -- ,to_char(h.posted_date,'DD-MON-YYYY HH:MI:SS') as posted_date
                           ,u2.user_name     as Posted_by
                          ,replace(u2.description,',',NULL)   as Posted_by_name
                          ,replace(replace(replace(b.name,',',NULL),chr(10),NULL),chr(13),NULL) as batch_name
                          ,h.name             as journal_name
                          ,replace(replace(replace(h.description,',',NULL),chr(10),NULL),chr(13),NULL) as description
                          ,h.je_source
                          ,h.je_category
                          --,h.date_created
                          ,'="'||to_char(h.date_created,'DD-MON-YYYY HH24:MI:SS')||'"' as date_created
                          ,u1.user_name     as Created_by
                          ,replace(u1.description,',',NULL)     as Created_by_name
                    from apps.gl_je_batches    b
                        ,apps.gl_je_headers    h
                        ,apps.gl_je_categories cat
                        ,fnd_user                u1
                        ,fnd_user                u2
                    where b.je_batch_id      = h.je_batch_id
                      and   h.created_by      = u1.user_id
                      and h.last_updated_by = u2.user_id
                      and h.je_category     = cat.je_category_name
                      and h.set_of_books_id = 1
                      --and h.period_name     in ('JUN-10')
                      and h.period_name     = 'APR-12'
                      and h.status             = 'P'
                      and h.posted_date >= to_date('4-MAY-2012 21:00:00','DD-MON-YYYY HH24:MI:SS')
        order by h.posted_date;

Oracle Applications - Query to get all responsibilities assigned to all active users

select  distinct responsibility_name ,y.user_name
       ,y.description
      , z.employee_number
      , z.full_name,
       z.first_name,
       z.last_name
        from apps.fnd_user_resp_groups x , fnd_user y , per_people_f z ,fnd_responsibility_tl a
              where x.responsibility_id = a.responsibility_id    
    and  x.start_date <=sysdate and (x.end_date is null OR x.end_date > sysdate)
    and y.user_id = x.user_id
    and  y.start_date <=sysdate and (y.end_date is null OR y.end_date > sysdate)
    and z.employee_number = y.user_name
    and  z.effective_start_date <=sysdate
    and (z.effective_end_date  > sysdate or z.effective_end_date is NULL)
    and language = 'US'
    order by employee_number nulls first

Copying data along with the Column headers from Data grid in Toad

When you need to copy data from the Toad Data grid, CTRL+V will not copy the column headers. If you need the Column headers to be copied, press CTRL+INSERT to copy the headers as well.