The OpenEdge Hive

I'm supporting a QAD application. Over the past 4 years, I've taught myself Open Edge. I'm not expert by any means but I've written some solid maintenance / label printing programs.

I would like to connect to a Windows SQL database, so I can interface it to UPS / FedEx, etc.

What would I need on the Unix side? Do you have recommendations for a Unix ODBC driver?

Also I need some sample code of how I connect to SQL and send SQL commands / invoke stored procedures from a Progress program on Unix.

I would appreciate any guidance.