Essbase Studio - Import Catalog using an automatic process

Hello,
I'd like to make the process of importing Essbase Studio catalog more automatic in the customer environment. Instead of having to open Essbase Studio application every time I want to deploy a new version of the catalog ( either full or partial ), is there any way to export/import the catalog using a unix shell script or DOS command ?
Thanks in advance
Victor

I think the options will be quite limited for automating migrations until 11.1.2.3 where LCM supports Studio.
Cheers
John
http://john-goodwin.blogspot.com/

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You can obviuosly see why I said to back everything up first; if you messed up the export by not including the negatives, you could easilly delete your originals, and not have them _anywhere_, in which case you would have to restore from back up and try again.
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