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Platform and service-specific REST APIs

Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services includes common functionality that is the platform on which the services in Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services are built. Each Informatica Intelligent Cloud service has functionality that is only applicable to that service, in addition to platform functionality.
For example, tasks are applicable to most services in Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services. To get a list of tasks in your organization, you use the platform resource, task. A mapping task is a type of task that is only applicable to the Data Integration service. To get details about a mapping task or create a mapping task, you use the Data Integration resource, mttask.
There are two versions of the Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services platform REST API. Use the version that includes the resource you need. You can use both versions in the same session however the base URL and headers are slightly different. For more information, see Platform REST API version 2 resources and Platform REST API version 3 resources.
For information about Data Integration resources, see Data Integration REST API.