diff --git a/bin/configure.sh b/bin/configure.sh
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..808c638
--- /dev/null
+++ b/bin/configure.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,45 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+################################################################################
+# This program and the accompanying materials are made available under the terms of the
+# Eclipse Public License v2.0 which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
+# https://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v20.html
+#
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: EPL-2.0
+#
+# Copyright IBM Corporation 2020
+################################################################################
+
+# Variables required on shell:
+# STATIC_DEF_CONFIG_DIR=${INSTANCE_DIR}/workspace/api-mediation/api-defs
+# ZOWE_EXPLORER_HOST
+# MY_API_NAME
+# MY_API_PORT
+
+echo 'sample-node-api configure begin'
+
+echo "LAUNCH_COMPONENT: ${LAUNCH_COMPONENT} "
+COMPONENT_DIR=$(dirname "${LAUNCH_COMPONENT}")
+echo "COMPONENT_DIR: ${COMPONENT_DIR}"
+
+# load config from env
+echo 'load sample-node-api config'
+. ${COMPONENT_DIR}/bin/env.sh
+
+echo 'Add static definition for sample-node-api'
+#configure based on env.sh
+sed -e "s/mymainframe.ibm.com/${ZOWE_EXPLORER_HOST}/g" \
+    -e "s/18000/${MY_API_PORT}/g" \
+    ${COMPONENT_DIR}/${MY_API_NAME}.yml \
+    > ${STATIC_DEF_CONFIG_DIR}/${MY_API_NAME}.ebcidic.yml
+
+echo 'change sample-node-api.ebcidic.yml encoding from ibm-1047 to ibm-850'
+# basically this yml file is only thing we need to do register our service with apiml
+# check if z/OS
+# iconv -f IBM-1047 -t IBM-850 ${STATIC_DEF_CONFIG_DIR}/${MY_API_NAME}.ebcidic.yml > $STATIC_DEF_CONFIG_DIR/${MY_API_NAME}.yml
+
+cp ${STATIC_DEF_CONFIG_DIR}/${MY_API_NAME}.ebcidic.yml $STATIC_DEF_CONFIG_DIR/${MY_API_NAME}.yml
+rm ${STATIC_DEF_CONFIG_DIR}/${MY_API_NAME}.ebcidic.yml
+chmod 770 $STATIC_DEF_CONFIG_DIR/${MY_API_NAME}.yml
+
+echo 'sample-node-api configure done'
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diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 6a4d1fd..8788935 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
     "dev": "nodemon src/index.js",
     "dev:https": "nodemon src/index.js --key sslcert/server.key --cert sslcert/server.cert",
     "start": "node src/index.js",
-    "build": "npm run clean && cp -r src dist/src && cp -r bin dist/bin && cp *.yaml.template dist && cp *.yaml dist && cp *.json dist && cp README.md dist && cp LICENSE dist",
+    "build": "npm run clean && cp -r src dist/src && cp -r bin dist/bin && cp *.yaml.template dist && cp *.yml dist && cp *.yaml dist && cp *.json dist && cp README.md dist && cp LICENSE dist",
     "clean": "rimraf dist && mkdirp dist"
   },
   "author": "",
diff --git a/sample-node-api.yml b/sample-node-api.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..9d0af3c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sample-node-api.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+#
+services:
+    - serviceId: sample-node-api
+      title: Sample-Node-API
+      description: Sample Node API
+      catalogUiTileId: sample-node-api
+      instanceBaseUrls:
+        - http://mymainframe.ibm.com:18000/
+      homePageRelativeUrl:  # Home page is at the same URL
+      routedServices:
+        - gatewayUrl: api/v1  # [api/ui/ws]/v{majorVersion}
+          serviceRelativeUrl:
+      apiInfo:
+        - apiId: com.ibm.sample-node-api
+          gatewayUrl: api/v1
+          version: 1.0.0
+          swaggerUrl: http://mymainframe.ibm.com:18000/api-docs
+          documentationUrl: http://mymainframe.ibm.com:18000/api-docs-ui
+
+catalogUiTiles:
+    sample-node-api:
+      title: Sample-Node-API
+      description: Sample Node API
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