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Session IDs

Each Reference 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 the following POST request with your credentials:

POST https://dm-us.informaticacloud.com/identity-service/api/v1/Login

{
"username": "myUser",
"password": "myPassword",
}

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

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

To authenticate your requests, add IDS-SESSION-ID: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX in the request header.

The following example shows how IDS-SESSION-ID is used in the request header:

POST https://use4-mdm.dm-us.informaticacloud.com/rdm-service/external/v1/model/export HTTP/1.1
Content-Type: application/json
Accept: application/json
IDS-SESSION-ID: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

{
"referenceDataSetIds":[
"56dbde1afe4d8257b6d7735e",
"a83fa4bda81df711caca4e71"
]
}