Context
Change Type: Feature
Product area: Platform services
Component: REST API
Deployed at: eu.latest.cumulocity.com, apj.cumulocity.com, jp.cumulocity.com, cumulocity.com, us.cumulocity.com
Technical details
Build artifact: cumulocity (2026.111.0)
Internal ID: MTM-66381
Description
Cumulocity now provides a new REST API endpoint for looking up global identifiers
given a list of external identifiers. This endpoint allows to prepare batch inventory requests in situations
where external identifiers are known and global identifiers need to be looked up first.
This is useful in scenarios where recently added bulk inventory operations are needed. Those bulk inventory operations
require global identifiers, but in some customer systems only external identifiers are available. With the old API customers
needed to retrieve global identifiers one request per identifier. This new endpoint allows to prepare a bulk update request
for managed objects with much less HTTP overhead.
For details, refer to the identity search operation
in the Cumulocity OpenAPI Specification.