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Global Policy

Global policy is an embedded set of policy instructions that handles elements and actions that are common for all connectors. Outbound from connector policy should leverage global policy to avoid having to redefine common elements and actions. Inbound to connector policy should not use global policy.

Leverage global policy in outbound policy files by writing the initial <Catalog> element as follows:

<Catalog version='1.0' globalextends='GLOBAL!'>

Global policy handles the following common outbound policy items: