I would suggest trying "Import selected" so you can confirm that you do indeed only have one thing (the right thing) in your export file as it will show you the contents before importing.
-craig
"You can never have too many knives" -- Logan Nine Fingers
Sounds like this might be related to the following bug reported against 8.1:
"Clientside import fails to import server routines if server-only licence is applied. This affects the Designer and the clientside commandline inport tools, but not serverside import."
There is a client-side patch for this - the magic number is APAR JR31326. You could try asking your support provider for that.
8.1 has a command that you run on the server - DSXImportService.bat or DSXImportService.sh, depending on whether it is Windows or Unix.
In C:\IBM\InformationServer\ASBNode\bin by default.
You might want to check out the new Asset Import/Export capabilities of Information Server 8.1. And the ISManager tool. These use a new format, not DSX though, as they apply to more than just DataStage artifacts. So can't handle stuff from before 8.1.
In v8.1 there's Import / Export Manager, and also Information Server Manager. But what I need is to export DS objects from the server side (an AIX 5.3 box). I have a script that backups db2 databases xmeta + iadb, and I want it to backup DS jobs too. Do you know if there's any tool / command to do that in v8.1? Thanks!
Why not simply search for it? Use the search functionality if you are on Windows or the 'find' command from UNIX, it shouldn't be all that hard to turn it up.
-craig
"You can never have too many knives" -- Logan Nine Fingers