The error: TEIID31070 Empty model;There are no tables, procedures or functions defined in this model MM
suggest that one of the filtering (e.g., tableTypes, schemaPattern, excludeTables, etc.) properties was changed. The useQualifiedName isn't a filtering type property, it controls how the table or column is referenced in the metadata.
Can you try this, remove all the importer.x properties and then only use these 3:
<property name="importer.tableTypes" value="TABLE"/>
<property name="importer.schemaPattern" value="EPDM"/>
<property name="importer.useFullSchemaName" value="true"/>
but i need this property
<property name="importer.excludeTables" value="(?!(A1|CD)).*"></property>