Replace the Old Product

Information about Lifecycle States

IBM API Connect provides capabilities for managing the lifecycle of your API Products. There are various states which an API Product can reside in, as well as controls around when you can move an API Product from one state to another.

The link below documents these states and how API Products flow from one state to another.

• The Product lifecycle

Open the API Connect Service on Bluemix

1. Log in to IBM Bluemix

2. Locate and click on the API Connect service on your Bluemix dashboard to launch your SaaS instance of the API Manager.

   

Replace the Old Product

1. Switch to the Dashboard view:

   

2. Click on the Sandbox catalog tile to open the catalog configuration screen.

3. The Products tab will list all of the API Products that this Catalog is currently managing.

   Notice that the inventory 1.0.0 product is in a Published state. This product was built for you in Lab 1 when you generated your Node.js microservice application.

   Also notice that your new Think Inventory product is available in a Staged state.

4. Click on the menu options for the Think Inventory product and select the Replace an existing product option.

   

5. Select the inventory 1.0.0 product, since this is the one we are replacing. Then click the Next button.

6. In order to maintain our consumers’ entitlements, we need to migrate their plan subscriptions.

   Both of our Products have plans called Default Plan, here you will choose to move subscribers from the inventory Product’s default plan to the Think Inventory Product’s default plan.

   In the drop-down menu, select Default Plan, then click on the Replace button.

7. The API Manager will take care of retiring the old product and publishing the new one.

Continue

Proceed to Test the OAuth Configuration.