Authoring policies

With the on-premise offering, you can control specific processing features in the Gateway server of IBM® API Connect by creating user-defined policies.

IBM API Connect enables organizations to easily promote business services as APIs to internal and external developer communities. API developers can rapidly create, proxy, assemble, and secure APIs through the API Designer user interface (UI). The API Designer assembly feature allows API developers to create complex REST or SOAP API operations that transform data, perform multiple service calls, aggregate data, and apply policies.

A policy is a piece of configuration that controls a specific aspect of processing in the IBM DataPower® Gateway server, or Micro Gateway server, during the handling of an API invocation at run time. IBM API Connect provides a number of different types of policies, but you can also create user-defined policies to provide more processing control.

See the following topics for more information about user-defined policies, and how to create and import them into IBM API Connect: