Can FME provide commands/options in the FME mapping file to read the catalog file itself and extract fields from within it

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The CATALOG file is in ISO8211 format, and FME also includes a generic ISO8211 reader. You should be able to point at the catalog file (such as CATALOG.30) and get back a feature with no geometry for each record in the catalog file.

The features from a catalog file should have attributes such as:

     CATD_RCNM = `CD'
     CATD_RCID = 2
     CATD_FILE = `CA49995T.000'
     CATD_LFIL = `'
     CATD_VOLM = `V01X01'
     CATD_IMPL = `BIN'
     CATD_SLAT = 51.346667
     CATD_WLON = -112.850001
     CATD_NLAT = 51.383334
     CATD_ELON = -112.815001
     CATD_CRCS = `FFFFFFFFFFFFBD87'
     CATD_COMT = `'