The issue was with the AUTHOR field, it was set to a different user and I was logged in as another user while trying to import.
So changing the author field in the XML to the current logged in user solved the issue.

Hi, In Control-M Desktop, I can save existing schedules (drf files) locally as XML using the "File>Save As" option. Later when I try to open the same schedule from the previously locally saved XML file using "File>Open - File Type *.XML", it does not load the schedule. Any suggestions why I cant ope...