How do I use FND_GLOBAL.APPS_INITIALIZE to integrate with EBS 11i security?

Question

Hello,
We are trying to integrate APEX with Oracle Ebusiness Suite 11i. We are trying to integrate with the HR/Payroll application which uses FND_GLOBAL.APPS_INITIALIZE to set the security context to a user, responsibility and application id which defines who the session has access to for the session. When we make the call to FND_GLOBAL.APPS_INITIALIZE in either a before header process or in the VPD security attribute, we get no data. Using the same call in SQL*PLUS we get the data expected.
Any suggestions on how to get this to work? What are we missing?
Thanks,
-Eric

Answer 1

Hi Rod,
Thanks for the reply. I have not tried passing in the parameters yet. I currently have the following hardcoded in a before header process.
BEGIN
FND_GLOBAL.APPS_INITIALIZE(1003,51172,800);
END;
I do have FND_GLOBAL.USER_ID and FND_GLOBAL.RESP_ID in a report. The values returned are the same as those I have in the before header process.
For this user_id, responsibility_id and application_id I should get 1 row from per_people_f. It works in sqlplus, I get no data found in APEX.
Any further suggestions on what might be happening here?
Thank you,
Eric