Migrating application subscriptions to another Product

By using the Products view within a Catalog in API Manager, you can migrate application subscriptions between Products. The syndication feature in IBM® API Connect means that you can also use the Products view within a Space in a Catalog to migrate application subscriptions.

Before you begin

Your Product that you are migrating subscriptions from must be in one of the following states:
  • Published
  • Deprecated

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 in this Catalog, you will 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

Application developers initially subscribe their applications to one or more Plans in Products by using the Developer Portal. For more information, see Exploring APIs and Products in the Developer Portal. However, by using API Manager, for a chosen Product you can migrate one or more of its application subscriptions from one Plan to a Plan in another Product.

Procedure

To migrate Product subscriptions, complete the following steps:

  1. In the navigation pane of the API Manager UI, click Manage icon in the API Manager UI navigation pane Manage catalogs, then select the catalog that you want to work with.
    The Products page of the catalog opens, and all of the products available in that catalog are displayed.
  2. If the product that you want to work with is contained within a space, select the required space by completing the following steps:
    1. Click the Spaces tab.
    2. Select the space that you want to work with.
    The Products page of the space opens, and all of the products available in that space are displayed.
  3. Alongside the Product version that you want to work with, click the options icon options icon and then click Migrate Subscriptions.
  4. Select the Plan from which you want to migrate subscriptions, then click Next.
  5. Select the subscriptions that you want to migrate, then click Next.
  6. Select the Product that you want to migrate the subscriptions to, then click Next.
  7. Select the Plan that you want to migrate the application subscriptions to, and then click Migrate.

Results

The target Product has the migrated subscriptions, and those subscriptions are removed from the Product from which they were migrated.