When the Generic reader is used, it is sometimes useful to pre-configure directives that would be specific to individual input formats. For example, to read from a PostGIS database, a collection of connection parameters must be specified.
There are two ways of accomplishing this. The first way, if you are using a mapping file, would be to just specify the settings using the format short name of the source reader. For example, these lines specify the seed file and cell library file for a design file reader:
ORACLE_8I_USER_NAME fme ORACLE_8I_PASSWORD fme