ANNOUNCEMENT: Headstart Utilities Patch 6.5.2.3 now available on Supplement Option!

All,
Subscribers of the Supplement Option can now download Headstart Patch 6.5.2.3 and Headstart for Apps patch 6.5.2.3
from My Oracle, using the iDevelopment Accelerators link in the Supplement Offering portlet.
The main purpose of this patch is to improve the performance of the CDM RuleFrame engine
when large transactions are involved.
During development and testing of this patch the following improvements of the CDM RuleFrame engine
were measured on an Windows 2000 laptop with RDBMS 8.1.7.1.1.
- 100 DML statements, 3 Business Rules per statement performance improved from 1.45 sec to 1.05 sec (28%)
- 500 DML statements, 3 Business Rules per statement performance improved from 23.760 sec to 8.48 sec (64%)
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- 2000 DML statements, 3 Business Rules per statement performance improved from above 300 sec to 48.22 sec (83%)
- 5000 DML statements, 3 Business Rules per statement performance improved from ??? to 143.41 sec
It evolves that the RuleFrame engine takes up more time for larger transactions now in a rather linear way.
This means that within 15 minutes more than 100.000 business rules can be validated
on a small windows 2000 laptop.
Besides this performance improvement, the patch also implements the following enhancements to CDM RuleFrame:
- The utility 'Create CAPI Custom Service' makes it possible to include a CAPI Custom Service
(that is, your own package or function) in more than one CAPI
- The utility 'Create VAPI Definition' can now also create VAPI's for subtypes (controlled by new utility parameter)
Furthermore, several Utilities bugs have been fixed in this patch. See the readme in the patch for more details.
If you don't have the Supplement Option, contact your local Oracle Consulting representative.
For more information, read the original announcement of the Supplement Option in this forum at
Re: Archiving the data .
kind regards,
The Headstart Team.

I was running just the base version of Headstart until yesterday, when I applied all 3 patches at once. On the base version this column wasn't being included in the CAPI, and now it is, so I guess the change could've come about in any of the patches.
The name of my table is reg_photos, and the column that has Complete=No is large_image.
The specific areas of the CAPI where it's included and which cause compilation errors are:
There's public cursors at the start of the package where the column is being selected:
-- public cursors
-- cursor to select one particular row
cursor c_rpho
( b_project_code in varchar2
, b_photo_no in number
) is
select rpho.rowid the_rowid
, rpho.project_code
, rpho.photo_no
, rpho.photo_type
, rpho.photo_date
, rpho.small_image
, rpho.large_image
, rpho.created_by
, rpho.creation_date
, rpho.last_updated_by
, rpho.last_update_date
from reg_photos rpho
where rpho.project_code = b_project_code
and rpho.photo_no = b_photo_no
-- cursor to select all rows
cursor c_rpho_all
is
select rpho.rowid the_rowid
, rpho.project_code
, rpho.photo_no
, rpho.photo_type
, rpho.photo_date
, rpho.small_image
, rpho.large_image
, rpho.created_by
, rpho.creation_date
, rpho.last_updated_by
, rpho.last_update_date
from reg_photos rpho
It's also included in function get_char_value but this isn't causing a compilation error:
elsif upper(p_column_name) = 'LARGE_IMAGE'
then
return l_row.large_image;
And also in procedure validate_row:
g_current_ind.large_image := true;
I guess it's easy enough to go in and comment all the references out, but I would've thought that columns of this nature should not be included in the CAPI in the first place?
Thanks,
Kim.

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