Monday, December 14, 2020

Oracle Fusion: Anonymous blocks (Procedural Call) data model in Oracle BI Publisher (Oracle Fusion)

 BI Publisher supports executing PL/SQL anonymous blocks. You can perform calculations in the PL/SQL block and return the result set. BI Publisher uses callable statements to execute anonymous blocks.

The requirements are:

  • The PL/SQL block must return a result set of type REF cursor
  • You must declare the out variable with the name, xdo_cursor;. This needs to be the first parameter in position in Data model. 
  • If you do not declare the name properly, the first bind variable is treated as an out variable type and binds with REF cursor.
  • Declare the data model parameter with name xdo_cursor. This name is reserved for out variable type for procedure/anonymous blocks.


Sample Script:

DECLARE
    TYPE refcursor IS REF CURSOR;
    xdo_cursor refcursor;
BEGIN
    OPEN :xdo_cursor FOR SELECT gl.name
                              , fnd_flex_ext.get_segs('GL', 'GL#', fnd.id_flex_num, gc.code_combination_id) concatenated_segments
                              , decode(nvl(gb.translated_flag, 'X'), 'R',(nvl(gb.begin_balance_dr, 0) - nvl(gb.begin_balance_cr, 0))
                                       , 'X',(nvl(gb.begin_balance_dr_beq, 0) - nvl(gb.begin_balance_cr_beq, 0)), - 99) begin_balance
                              , decode(nvl(gb.translated_flag, 'X'), 'R', 'No', 'X', 'Yes', 'XXX') is_functional_currency
                           FROM gl_ledgers gl
                              , gl_balances gb
                              , gl_code_combinations gc
                              , fnd_id_flex_structures_tl fnd
                          WHERE gc.chart_of_accounts_id = gl.chart_of_accounts_id
                            AND gl.ledger_id = gb.ledger_id
                            AND gc.code_combination_id = gb.code_combination_id
                            AND fnd.id_flex_num = gc.chart_of_accounts_id
                            AND fnd.application_id = 101
                            AND fnd.id_flex_code = 'GL#'
                            AND fnd.language = userenv('LANG')
                            AND gb.period_name = :p_period_name
                            AND gc.segment1 = :p_segment1
                            AND gc.segment3 = :p_segment3
                            AND gl.ledger_id = :p_pedger_id;

END;

Data Model:


Parameter Window:


Sample Output: