Create a Variable

Use this API to create a new Variable instance.

Name

CDR_PUB_DF_VARIABLE.CreateVariable

Signature

PROCEDURE CREATEVARIABLE( 
  P_API_VERSION  IN    NUMBER, 
  P_INIT_MSG_LIST  IN    VARCHAR2 := CDR_PUB_DEF_CONSTANTS.G_FALSE, 
  P_COMMIT  IN    VARCHAR2 := CDR_PUB_DEF_CONSTANTS.G_FALSE, 
  P_VALIDATION_LEVEL  IN    NUMBER := CDR_PUB_DEF_CONSTANTS.G_VALID_LEVEL_FULL, 
  X_RETURN_STATUS  OUT    VARCHAR2, 
  X_MSG_COUNT  OUT    NUMBER, 
  X_MSG_DATA  OUT    VARCHAR2, 
  PIO_NAMING  IN OUT    CDR_NAMING_VERSION_OBJ_TYPE, 
  PIO_VARIABLE  IN OUT    CDR_VAR_OBJ_TYPE, 
  PI_DEFCLASSIFICATIONCOLL  IN    CDR_CLASSIFICATIONS_COLL 
); 

Parameters

This API has standard parameters (see Standard Parameters) and the following parameters:

• PIO_NAMING (Mandatory) This is a parameter of table type CDR_NAMING_VERSIONS_OBJ_TYPE that contains CDR Naming Version attributes.

  For OBJECT_TYPE_RC enter $OBJTYPES$CDRVAR.

• PIO_VARIABLE (Mandatory) This is a parameter of table type CDR_VAR_OBJ_TYPE that contains attributes specific to Variables.

  The required attributes are: ORACLE_NAME, ORACLE_DATATYPE_RC, LENGTH, PRECISION, SAS_V8_NAME,SAS_LABEL, SAS_FORMAT, NULLABLE_FLAG_RC,DEFAULT_VALUE.

  Possible values for ORACLE_DATATYPE_RC are: $ORADATATYPES$DATE, $ORADATATYPES$NUMBER, and $ORADATATYPES$VARCHAR2.

  Possible values for NULLABLE_FLAG_RC are: $YESNO$NO, $YESNO$YES.

• PI_DEFCLASSIFICATIONCOLL By default, the variable is classified according to the subtype you assigned it in the CDR_NAMING_VERSION_OBJ_TYPE.

  If you want to override the default classifications for one or more classification levels, use this parameter. This is a collection of CDR_CLA_OBJ_TYPEs, which have 5 attributes, including CLA_LEVEL_ID and CLASSIFICATION_ID.

  If you want the definition to inherit its classifications for a particular level from its parent, enter the classification level ID and, for the CLASSIFICATION_ID, enter 0 (zero).

  If you want to explicitly assign one or more terms for a particular level, initialize a CDR_CLA_OBJ_TYPE for each term, entering the classification level ID and, for the CLASSIFICATION_ID, the term ID. The PAR_ attributes are not relevant to Variables. Do not enter any values for them.

  If you are not creating a new definition, do not enter values here.