TDM Import/Export no longer supported in TcII 14.2

Teamcenter Integration for I-deas (TcII) 14.2 was released last year. As we always remind users in all I-deas-related communications: The Evolution of Excellence program for I-deas customers and all of its supported technical deliverables have been validated in production by real customer business results and technical achievement. Today, nearly all I-deas customers worldwide have completed their migration to NX and Teamcenter. There are very, very few sites who still need to open and reference legacy I-deas files, or use TcII, so the audience for this SFB is limited. But for the few sites who may use it, we wanted to update on you on a change to the TcII functionality. In the SFB announced the Release, we explained the following options are available to export I-deas data from Teamcenter, listed in order of recommendation:

1. Install the CMM for I-deas tool into your Teamcenter site. Use the tool to migrate your I-deas files into NX files, then open them directly from Teamcenter.
2. In Teamcenter, using the TDM Export option, export your I-deas data files as Package Files from your Teamcenter 14.2 database. We have now found that the TDM Export option no longer works, because it relied on Tc API's that have been deprecated. This was not discovered during the QA testing for TcII, because we deprecated all Data Sharing workflows in TcII 12 timeframe, so all those tests were removed from our TcII Test Suite. In hindsight, we should have left the few tests that covered interactive TDM Export. That would have allowed us to document and deprecate this workflow in the original Release Notes. Since we cannot update the Release Notes, this SFB will now serve as notice that TDM Export (and Import) commands, are no longer supported with TcII. We realize that this might create issues for the few sites who still have I-deas data in Tc, and who need to access it. For those sites, we have 2 short-term methods available:
3. Method 1: The same as described in the original SFB - use CMM.
4. Method 2: Use "Send to I-deas" to pull the required data from Tc into your open I-deas Modelfile. Save this Modelfile to your local disk. On the local machine (outside of Tc) startup I-deas using native TDM mode. Use the Manage -> Check-in command to upload the data from your Modelfile to your local TDM. We also understand that some sites may have larger amounts of I-deas data that they still need to "archive" out of Tc into a local TDM, for whom the TDM Export would have been more efficient that Method 2. To satisfy this requirement, we have just approved a new project to create a new, longer-term solution for this workflow. This new method will utilize the existing CMM framework to allow Export of an I-deas Package File (same as TDM Export) from within the CMM utility. A big benefit of this new method is that it will not rely on any of the existing TcII code, so the method can continue to exist as part of CMM in future Tc releases, even after TcII is retired after the TcII 14.2 release. Our current plan is to have this new method available in early 2025. If you have any issues with this process, or would like assistance in creating or executing your I-deas migration strategy (the few sites who have not already completed Migration from I-deas should all have a plan now for to complete your Migration to NX), please contact your local vendor or Siemens Support Center. Sincerely, Siemens Digital Industries Software