Extending the Gateway server behavior

To support your enterprise requirements, you can extend the Gateway servers within IBM® API Connect to provide extra enforcement behavior.

Before you begin

Before you develop your extensions, consider the guidelines in the following topic:

About this task

API Connect Gateway servers uses a subset of DataPower® enforcement capabilities. You can supply DataPower® Extensions to customize these enforcement capabilities further.

The DataPower extensibility function can be used to perform actions that include schema validation, antivirus scanning, message filtering, authentication, and authorization, token translation, message enrichment, encryption & decryption, digital signing, and validation and message transformation. For more information, see IBM DataPower Version 7.5 documentation.

Procedure

To extend the default enforcement capabilities that are provided in IBM API Connect for the Gateway server, complete the following steps.

  1. In your IBM DataPower environment, develop the configuration that you want to add to your Gateway server.
  2. Test your enforcement configuration before you add the configuration to the Gateway server.
  3. When you complete the IBM DataPower configuration, save the enforcement objects and files as a DataPower exported .zip file.
    The package file is ready to be uploaded to the Gateway server by using the Cloud Manager.
  4. Copy your exported configuration .zip file to a centralized file system that the Cloud Manager can access. For more information, see Configuring your IBM DataPower Extensions.