Locations are lost when importing map.

I am trying to use mdl files and OMBPlus to move changes from our dev environment to our stage environment. When the tcl script executes the import the source and target modules lose their locations in our stage environment. Is there anyway for this not to happen?
Version: OWB 10gR2

Sounds like there may be some misunderstandings of what you can do, which is understandable since not sure how much some of the concepts are explained. Have a read of below...
OWB has a number of capabilities for consolidating metadata across repositories. If you have physically created (in UI or scripting via OMBCREATE LOCATION....) the same named locations in DEV and STAGE for example they will have different global identifiers (UOIDs). The default matching criteria when you import is to match by Universal Identifier (the UOID). So if the locations referenced from the module have different UOIDs in each repository, they will not match. Matching by name would setup the metadata correctly could be one solution (but not advised really). The advised mechanism would be to use MDL export for the locations and ensure the locations have the same UOID across your repositories.
Cheers
David

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