An unexpected feature of Object Migration

An unexpected feature of the CA Gen object migration utility that sometimes catches us out is when you migrate an action block and the view matching of action blocks that use it is also affected.

Consider the example where AB1 uses AB2. If you add a new import view to AB2 and view match it to an existing view in AB1:

AB1:
USE AB2
IMPORTS: temp xxx to in xxx

and then migrate just AB2 to another model, if the view temp xxx in AB1 has common ancestry between the two models, then the view match is also migrated, which in effect modifies AB1 even though this had not been selected for migrate. However AB1 does not get a modified timestamp, so it looks like AB1 has not changed even though its view matching has.

This may not necessarily create a problem, but it does sometimes cause confusion.