How to extract FX rates from DSS using Rest or SOAP

@annisumanth.yakkali

For REST API, you can download DSS postman sample collections from here.

Then try tutorial 3b: request intraday data.

You can use FX RIC such as EUR= or JPY=

This is my sample request:

POST https://hosted.datascopeapi.reuters.com/RestApi/v1/Extractions/Extract HTTP/1.1
Prefer: respond-async
Content-Type: application/json
Authorization: Token <your token here>
cache-control: no-cache
Postman-Token: fa889da2-34db-4448-9773-a9ce2fe8ef24
User-Agent: PostmanRuntime/7.1.1
Accept: */*
Host: hosted.datascopeapi.reuters.com
cookie: DSSAPI-COOKIE=R3148268809
accept-encoding: gzip, deflate
content-length: 991
Connection: close

{
  "ExtractionRequest": {
    "@odata.type": "#ThomsonReuters.Dss.Api.Extractions.ExtractionRequests.IntradayPricingExtractionRequest",
    "ContentFieldNames": [
      "RIC",
      "Ask Price",
      "Asset Type",
      "Bid Price",
      "Currency Code",
      "Exchange Code",
      "High Price",
      "Instrument ID",
      "Instrument ID Type",
      "Low Price",
      "Open Price",
      "Previous Close Date",
      "Previous Close Price",
      "Security Description",
      "Settlement Price",
      "Trade Date",
      "User Defined Identifier",
      "Volume"
    ],
    "IdentifierList": {
      "@odata.type": "#ThomsonReuters.Dss.Api.Extractions.ExtractionRequests.InstrumentIdentifierList",  
      "InstrumentIdentifiers": [{
        "Identifier": "JPY=",
        "IdentifierType": "Ric"
      },{
        "Identifier": "EUR=",
        "IdentifierType": "Ric"
      }]
    },
    "Condition": {
    "ScalableCurrency": true
    }
  }
}

And this is the sample result:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Set-Cookie: DSSAPI-COOKIE=R3148268809; path=/
Cache-Control: no-cache
Pragma: no-cache
Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8
Expires: -1
Server: Microsoft-IIS/7.5
X-Request-Execution-Correlation-Id: b3d4b16f-3130-421f-a753-2396eb2f56bc
X-App-Id: Custom.RestApi
X-App-Version: 11.2.662.64
Date: Sat, 06 Jan 2018 04:27:17 GMT
Connection: close
Content-Length: 1074

@{"@odata.context":"https://hosted.datascopeapi.reuters.com/RestApi/v1/$metadata#Collection(ThomsonReuters.Dss.Api.Extractions.ExtractionRequests.ExtractionRow)","value":[{"IdentifierType":"Ric","Identifier":"JPY=","RIC":"JPY=","Ask Price":113.1,"Asset Type":"MONY","Bid Price":113.06,"Currency Code":"JPY","Exchange Code":"RCT","High Price":113.06,"Instrument ID":"JPY=","Instrument ID Type":"RIC","Low Price":113.06,"Open Price":113.06,"Previous Close Date":"2018-01-05","Previous Close Price":113.06,"Security Description":"US Dollar/Japanese Yen FX Spot Rate","Settlement Price":null,"Trade Date":"2018-01-05","Volume":1},{"IdentifierType":"Ric","Identifier":"EUR=","RIC":"EUR=","Ask Price":1.2032,"Asset Type":"MONY","Bid Price":1.2028,"Currency Code":"USD","Exchange Code":"RCT","High Price":1.2028,"Instrument ID":"EUR=","Instrument ID Type":"RIC","Low Price":1.2028,"Open Price":1.2028,"Previous Close Date":"2018-01-05","Previous Close Price":1.2028,"Security Description":"Euro/US Dollar FX Spot Rate","Settlement Price":null,"Trade Date":"2018-01-05","Volume":1}]}

For WSDL, you can find more information from this document.

However, it is advisable to use REST API.

@anilsumanth.yakkali

What's your integration plan?

• FX list?
• Input data format? CSV or JSON?
  
• Which fields do you want? Rate/Last price only?
• The frequency of update? Daily?

The easiest solution would be writing a console application that fetches DSS's FX rate and updates exchange rates with SAP SDK. Then use Windows Task Scheduler to execute your program.

DSS has .NET SDK, and there are tutorials on DSS portal. You can follow the .Net SDK Tutorial 5 and change extraction request to IntradayPricingExtractionRequest and change fields to "Last Price".

You also need the RICs (Reuters Instrument Codes) of FXs that you want. You can use RIC search tool here.