Administering IBM z/OS Connect policies
Use IBM z/OS Connect policies to adjust how an API request is processed in IBM z/OS Connect, based on the HTTP header values sent in by the client.
There are two types of policy, but only one policy is applied to an API.
- Specific policies are applied only to selected API requests. You can define only
one specific policy per API. Specific policies are defined in the
zosConnectAPI
element. - Global policies are applied to requests for all APIs with no specific policy
defined. Global policies are defined in the
zosconnect_zosConnectAPIs
element.
Note:
- The terms specific and global refer to the way the policy is used, not the way it is defined.
- A specific policy can be applied only to requests for an API that is configured in server.xml.
- If a specific policy fails to load, then no policy is applied to requests for that API.
You create rule sets to define the condition and actions, then enable IBM z/OS Connect policies to apply those actions to API requests. A rule set contains one or more rules that define the condition and actions.
For a list of the properties that you can modify, see Valid properties for use in policy rules.