Global scoped user-defined policy

As you should be aware by now, APIC uses a DataPower Gateway as its runtime for your APIs. Many API developers using APIC often have previous DataPower development experience and naturally ask the question "Why can't I use any of the robust features and functionality that the DataPower product offers?" This is a legitimate question, and many developers will take it upon themselves to create separate services on DataPower to implement this functionality, but this is not the way you should accomplish this. Much like you saw in the previous section of this chapter, APIC provides a way to package all of your DataPower-specific functionality into one shareable policy that can be shared and reused by all of your APIs by simply dragging it onto the assembly flow like any other policy. Unlike the Catalog UDP we discussed in the previous section, any global UDP created will be available to any API being developed in any Provider Organization...