Setting Organization Context in Oracle R12

For those of you who are trying to set the organization context within your SQL sessions or custom programs, there’s a new API you must call in R12.

In 11i the way of setting organization context in 11i was to execute the following statement:

dbms_application_info.set_client_info(ORG_ID);

However, in R12, the new way of setting the organization context is as follows:

mo_global.init(’AR’);
mo_global.set_policy_context(’S',ORG_ID);

The 'S' parameter indicates a single organization context. Replace ORG_ID with the ID of the operating unit you wish to use. You can also set a context for multiple operating units by setting the security profile. This is done by executing the following statement:

mo_global.set_org_access(NULL,SECURITY_PROFILE_ID,’ASO’);

Replace SECURITY_PROFILE_ID with the ID of the appropriate security profile. ‘ASO’ represents the application short name associated with the responsibility you’ll be using.