Since Angular is a client-side framework, I don't believe you can access a native IBM i API directly but anything running on IBM i that is a REST service is fair game to access for programs and data.
Your Angular client app would probably be making REST calls to an API that accesses the database, not trying to access the database directly.
The Angular app (and technically your REST service) could be served up locally from IBM i or as Jack mentioned you could serve the REST APIs form IBMi and serve the web app via an alternate server such as Power Linux, Windows, Linux elsewhere, docker, etc.....
If it's an internal app only, both the Web APIs and the Angular app could be served up directly from IBM i.
There are also tools that can allow you to build Apis over the 5250 data stream to your apps, but I wasn't sure if that was something you wanted.
Regards,
Richard Schoen
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Maybe I am missing some important piece of knowledge here. Is there a way to access an IBM API directly via Angular?
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The future of presentation technology for the platform is to present data via APIs to be consumed by 2nd-tier web applications, e.g., coded on a PowerLinux LPAR.
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If you're architecting presentation modernization in some other fashion, you're still piling up technical debt.
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I wasn't saying that it was not possible or extremely difficult. I was pointing out that the angular web app can't do direct SQL like most other languages can using ODBC or JDBC. It is just another piece to add to the learning curve of getting it working and supporting it.
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