Storing BLOB data with my own procedure

Hi guys,
I'm kind of new on APEX, already search through the forum and did not find something about my issue.
I have a procedure, that inserts a new record on a table, this new record has a BLOB column. Also the procedure does some parallel validations and insertions to other tables (totally unrelated but it depends on the unique ID generated for the row where the BLOB is).
I want to know if I use my own procedure for inserting a new BLOB will it populate the mimetype, filename, last_update and character_set columns? or, that can only be done by using the predetermined Form Wizard that APEX offers, with the Automatic Row Processing (DML).
I really need to use my procedure cause I have some extra validations and I depend of the unique ID that is generated in Real Time, and I dont think there is a way to modify an Automatic Row Processing.
And if I create a parallel process, how can I get the same ID APEX just used for the row with the Blob file, to update with other information I need to store after validating it?
I thought on retrieving the last ID generated to go back and insert what my procedure does but this can be risky as other user can be inserting a new blob record at the same moment.

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I have a procedure, that inserts a new record on a table, this new record has a BLOB column. Also the procedure does some parallel validations and insertions to other tables (totally unrelated but it depends on the unique ID generated for the row where the BLOB is).How can it be "totally unrelated" if it "depends on the unique ID generated for the row where the BLOB is"?
I want to know if I use my own procedure for inserting a new BLOB will it populate the mimetype, filename, last_update and character_set columns? Magically? No. You would have to use the Table WWV_FLOW_FILES Storage Type for the file browse item, transferring the BLOB from the <tt>apex_application_files</tt> view (the preferred way to access <tt>wwv_flow_files</tt>). This also contains columns for the file metadata:
select blob_content, filename, mime_type, last_updated
into ... /* procedure variables */
from apex_application_files
where name = :p1_blob_file /* BLOB file browse item */Character set information has to be handled using a separate item as in declarative BLOB support.

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