OBIEE 11g reading the ORA_BIPS_NQID cookie on the narrative

Hi,
I need to get the session id that the BI returns upon logging. I saw the BI is storing it on a cookie named ORA_BIPS_NQID but wher I try to read it using javascript with the document.cookie the js cannot retrieve the value.
This was possible on 10g by also accessing the cookie named nQuireID.
Kindly help how to retrieve the session id on OBIEE 11g.
Thanks,
Arnold

Hi,
Please, did you succeed to retrieve the session id. I have the same problem.
Thanks.

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