I think I ran into a similar circumstance and it ended up being because (maybe?) I was including too many fields in the POST body. Check out the request body in this post. I narrowed my update down to just the attributes it had and it worked. dateType IdentityProfile attribute issue - #4 by AnamicaShroti
{
"displayName": "MyCustomAttr",
"name": "mycustomattr",
"searchable": true,
"sources": [{
"properties": {
"ruleName": "Cloud Promote Identity Attribute",
"ruleType": "IdentityAttribute"
},
"type": "rule"
}
],
"type": "string"
}