Many settings on the FeatureReader/Writer transformers are format agnostic (e.g. the transformer name). It would be great if the transformers could be configured to NOT re-read from database connections when these types of settings are changed.
I almost always pass in my connection details as attributes or published parameter values so having to navigate the file system to find an SDE connection file, or specify a database connection each time I make a minor change to the transformer settings is frustrating. It's a minor inconvenience, I know, but just one of the "little things" that I think could be easily fixed.
I used to be able to work around this in many cases by editing the settings directly in the Navigator pane but in FME 2017 this option has been removed as the settings are more tightly integrated with the transformer.
