Skip to Main Content
IBM Sustainability Software - Ideas Portal


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against the products and services belonging to IBM Sustainability Software. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).


Shape the future of IBM!

We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:

Search existing ideas

Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,

Post your ideas
  1. Post an idea.

  2. Get feedback from the IBM team and other customers to refine your idea.

  3. Follow the idea through the IBM Ideas process.


Specific links you will want to bookmark for future use

Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

Status Future consideration
Categories Feature
Created by Guest
Created on Jul 27, 2026

Enhance public type system APIs to include missing parts

The already available public APIs for modification of type system like artifact types, attributes, data types, link types… are already allowing access to the main parts of type system.

Nevertheless, there are some parts missing:

  • Link constraints: We also have the need for all CRUD operations for link constraints, like for all other type system resources to be able to read, create, change, and delete them. Please consider, that our link constraints are mainly defined cross-component, so there is a global context necessary or the option to set them with unresolved target.
  • Link Validity: as we are usually enabling Link Validity together with the type system setup, we would like to also activate Link Validity through API. Please also consider idea ENGRMDN-I-831 with respect to Link Validity setting.
  • Type system propagation: Overall bulk type system changes seem to be feasible for multiple streams. But we did not find the possibility to automate the “accept changes” or “deliver changes” mechanism from one variant stream to other variant streams. So that the same change set(s) containing the desired changes is/are propagated automatically to the desired variant streams. So individual bulk changes seem to be possible, but variant bulk changes (where you want to apply one or multiple identical change sets over variants) seems to fall short. We are following here IBM proposal with using a type system stream per component from which the type system changes shall be delivered to the real project / variant streams.
Idea priority High
Needed By Yesterday (Let's go already!)