Re-staging a Product
If a Product in a Catalog has been retired, you can re-stage the Product so that it can re-enter the Product lifecycle. A re-staged Product moves to the Staged state, from where it can be published. The syndication feature in IBM® API Connect means that you can also re-stage a Product within a Space in a Catalog.
Before you begin
The Product that you are re-staging must be in the Retired state.
To complete the Product management tasks that are described in this topic, you must either be the owner of the API provider organization, or be assigned Manage permission for Products in the Catalog that contains the Product. If you have View permission for Products, you have read-only access to the Product management page. For information on configuring Product management permissions for a Catalog, see Creating and configuring Catalogs.
The syndication feature in IBM API Connect means that Products can be contained within a Space in a Catalog. In this case, to complete the Product management tasks that are described in this topic, you must either be the owner of the API provider organization, or be assigned Manage permission for Products in the Space that contains the Product. For information on configuring Product management permissions for a Space, see Managing user access in a Space.
About this task
You stage a Product so that the appropriate approvals, internally within the organization, can be given for it to then be published. For information on configuring Product lifecycle approvals for a Catalog, see Creating and configuring Catalogs. For information on approving requests, see Approving Product lifecycle and subscription requests. For information on publishing a Product, see Publishing a Product.
Procedure
To re-stage a Product, complete the following steps.