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The Part Creation tool cannot set NONVER_ATTRIBUTE value to PART_NUMBER. This was supported earlier by ProINTRALINK Data Migrator 9.0 M0X0 utility.
The Windchill Part Creation Utility as of Windchill 10.x only accepts 3 different values:
Setting the value to anything different seems to default to auto if something different is selected.
Find also attached the information from the source code on the different settings:
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/*
1190 The following option controls how an existing part is searched and how the number is assigned for
1191 newly created parts.:
1192
1193 partNumbering
1194
1195 partNumber can be set to any of the following values - auto, docName, docNumber. These are discussed
1196 below.
1197
1198 PART_NUMBER_AUTO -
1199 An existing part is searched by matching the part's name against the
1200 CAD document's 'name' i.e. a part is said to be a match for the CAD document
1201 if the part's name = the value of the 'name' attribute of CAD Document.
1202 The comparison is case insensitive.
1203
1204 During part creation, the part is assigned an automatically generated number.
1205
1206 PART_NUMBER_EQUALS_DOC_NAME -
1207 An existing part is searched by matching the part's number against the
1208 CAD document's 'name' i.e. a part is said to be a match for the CAD document
1209 if the part's number = the value of the 'name' attribute of CAD Document.
1210 The comparison is case insensitive.
1211
1212 During part creation, the part is assigned a number equal to the CAD document's
1213 'name' attribute.
1214
1215 PART_NUMBER_EQUALS_DOC_NUMBER -
1216 An existing part is searched by matching the part's number against the
1217 CAD document's 'number' i.e. a part is said to be a match for the CAD document
1218 if the part's number = the value of the 'number' attribute of CAD Document.
1219 The comparison is case insensitive.
1220
1221 During part creation, the part is assigned a number equal to the CAD document's
1222 'number' attribute.
1223
1224 */
Needed Enhancement to support IBA values to set the partNumber.
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