USING ERWIN TO IMPORT/Maintenance META DATA

[NEAR]

Although imports from Erwin are common, can a Framework model be updated and/or maintained from an external Erwin design model?

 

[NEAR]

I love it when i get to answer my own question... The fact is can only import from Erwin once! Other wise you risk over writing work you've already completed.

 

[samdw]

I am having problem importing ERwin model into Framework manager.
Does ERwin and cognos needs to be installed on the same machine for this to work?

And what is this AllFusion Repository option? The import wizard in Cognos says i should select the AllFusion Repositoty radio button while saving the ERwin as XML. But i dont see that radio button at all in the ERwin 'save as' dialog box, instead in 'save as' there is an option to select the 'save as' type as Allfusion Repository type, i selected that while saving the Erwin file as xml.

I am working with Erwin 7.3 and Cognos 8.4.

I am getting the following error while importing this xml file.

[WARNING] This file does not comply with the ERwin 'AllFusion Repository' XML format. Trying anyway...
[ERROR] [MBCM_E0015] Unexpected application error detected in (MIRCaErwin7XmlImport)
[ERROR] The tool failed with error code ERROR_IMPORT

Complete import error message:

[INFO] System Hardware: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T7250 @ 2.00GHz at 1995 MHz with 2003 MB RAM
[INFO] System Software: Microsoft Windows XP 5.1 x86 with Office: 12.0
[INFO] System encoding: Western European (windows-1252)
[INFO] Import tool: CA ERwin Data Modeler 7.0 Build 1679 and newer (

http://www.ca.com/us/products/product.aspx?id=260)

[INFO] Import interface: [Data Modeling] Data Store (Physical Data Model, Logical Data Model) via Native (.erwin) or Export (.XML) File from CaErwin7Xml <2010-04-22 13:25:56>
[INFO] Import bridge: 'CaErwin7Xml' 6.0.2 - Aug 20 2008 19:32:05
[INFO] File = C:\CR4772_NPICS\Testing ERwin7\TestCognosNPICSrelationalPDM20100308.xml
[INFO] Import UDPs = As metadata
[INFO] Import relationship name = From relationship name
[INFO] Import IDs = True
[INFO] Import subject areas = Imported as diagrams
[STATUS] Pre-processing the XML file...
[STATUS] Parsing the XML file...
[INFO] Detected ERwin 7 XML File Format version '7.3.2235'
[WARNING] This file does not comply with the ERwin 'AllFusion Repository' XML format. Trying anyway...
[STATUS] Importing user defined properties...
[STATUS] Importing model...
[STATUS] Target database detected as 'ORACLE 9.x'
[STATUS] Importing stored procedures and triggers...
[STATUS] Importing entities...
[STATUS] Importing relationships...
[STATUS] Importing diagrams...
[STATUS] Importing types...
[STATUS] Importing attributes...
[STATUS] Importing keys...
[STATUS] Importing graphical information...
[ERROR] [MBCM_E0015] Unexpected application error detected in (MIRCaErwin7XmlImport)
[ERROR] The tool failed with error code ERROR_IMPORT

Please help, this needs to be resolved urgently