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DMF and AX 2012 R2

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We have been using DMF (Data Migration Framework) for data import to AX 2012 (in a separate environment for test migration). We had some issues, but overall it worked fine. Now, we've upgraded to AX 2012 R2 and DMF doesn't seem to work anymore. All the processing groups, all the custom entities and all the mappings are gone after the upgrade. Then, we got surprised finding out that there is a new release on DMF or Data Import/Export Framework as it seems to be called now.

The technical guys are now preparing to install the new Data Import/Export Framework. Hopefully the installation will be successful.

We’ve put a lot of time and effort into creating several new custom entities, processing groups and doing all the mapping. The only thing left was actually to push the button a number of times to get the data from staging to target. That was not done because we were working in the Master Configuration Environment (MCE). After our work with DMF, MCE was upgraded to R2. After the upgrade all DMF-data was gone…

My question is if anyone knows if it’s possible and eventually how to keep the processing groups, custom entities, mappings and other “setup-stuff”, from the previous version?

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    I have kept some of my entities from RTM and installed them in R2. Sure there will be some new constructs in R2, and some things have changes. There are changes around addresses in R2 and how they are data modeled.

    During upgrade from RTM to R2, you need to uninstall DMF. In fact, the entire FPK is removed during upgrade.

    This means DMF needs to be freshly installed in the upgraded environment after the upgrade. Data is obviously lost, and you simply can't restore it back.

    DMF is not supposed to hold business critical data. The staging data and the execution history is only valuable during the process of moving the data into the target. Afterwards, you shouldn't be worried about losing DMF, unless you need it to document the flow.

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    Thanks for your help!

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    We could keep the custom target entities, but had to delete all the processing groups because of conflicts related to RecId's. When we created the processing groups again we were able to migrate data. For the next migration (still in test) we will install the new Import/Export Framework and start from scratch.

    Thanks again.

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