When you send the data map to the remote system, PowerExchange converts the data map into a platform-independent file on the remote system, which PowerExchange uses for data extraction during a bulk data movement operation. The original data map remains on the PowerExchange Navigator system, but if you change the local data map, the changes are not reflected in the remote data map until you send the data map to the remote system again.

You can import one or more data maps that were sent, or exported, to a remote system to the PowerExchange Navigator system. For each data map that you import, the data map remains on the remote system and a local copy is saved on the PowerExchange Navigator system.