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Session IDs

Each Business 360 REST API request must be authenticated. To authenticate your requests, you must get a session ID, and then add the session ID to the header of every request. The Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services (IICS) Identity Service issues the session ID.

Note: If your session ID expires, log in again to get a new session ID.

To get a session ID, submit a POST request with your credentials. For more information, see Authentication method .

The response returns a session ID. For example, you might receive the following response:

{
...
"sessionId": "XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX",
"sessionExpireTime": "2000-01-01T00:00:00.000Z",
...
}

To make a request, add the session ID you retrieved in to the IDS-SESSION-ID field of the request header.

The following example shows how to use a retrieved session ID in the request header:

POST https://use4.dm-us.informaticacloud.com/search/public/api/v1/search \
--header 'Accept: application/json \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json \
--header 'IDS-SESSION-ID: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX \

{
"entityType": "Example Entity"

}