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.

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 documentation.

For information on the different types of gateway, see API Connect gateway types.

Important: Gateway server extensions must not be used to modify objects that cause the apic-gw-service object to restart, such as TLS Profiles, and Gateway Peering. Extensions that cause the apic-gw-service object to restart, lead to unpredictable behavior in the Gateway service.