Import from Erwin 7.3 Puts Column Comments in wrong section

There is a bug with the import for Erwin. Column comments are not put into the RDBMS Comments section, they are put in the regular comments section therefore when exported to DDL they do not get put in the database. We want the comments in the database and in Erwin there is only one section for comments. Anybody know a way around this? Or can it be fixed in the next release?

Hi,
there is a transformation that can be used for that - look at "Tools>Design rules>Transformations" - it's named "Copy comments to comments in RDBMS".
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