Impossible to export / import bv and jc with error "Premature end of file"

Products

• CA Automic Dollar Universe

Issue/Introduction

While trying to backup the Business Views and Job Chains, the uniimp / uniexp commands fail with the following errors.

On uniexp output:
SEVERE: cannot find the BVI data file in [email protected]

In universe.log: 
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 |WARN |X|IO |pid=p.t| encodeFileResponse | unable to read file [/dollar_universe/data/exp/TXXXXXXXX.bvi]
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On uniimp output:
importing BVNAME.BV ... Error while creating business view BVNAME.BV. org.dom4j.DocumentException: Error on line -1 of document  : Premature end of file. Nested exception: Premature end of file.

When displaying the BV and JC from UVC, an empty object is displayed.

Environment

All OS

Cause

Business View and Job Chains were empty (not correctly created) .

Resolution

Business view and Job Chains were empty so they could not be exported / imported.
Solution: save the business view with some content on it.