Pre-Installation Requirements for the Single-Tier "Lite" Edition ODBC Driver for Progress/OpenEdge, for Unix-like OS DBMS Requirements You need to know a variety of information pertaining to your target Progress/OpenEdge database: The Progress Startup Mode (Sockets or Shared Memory) The Single-Tier driver cannot connect over Shared Memory, so you may need to restart your Progress database in sockets mode Once running in Sockets mode, you need to know the TCP socket service name and/or port number The Progress SQL Engine Capabilities at Startup (4GL, SQL, Both) Progress 8 and earlier engines only support 4GL, and you can only use our SQL-89 drivers Progress 9 engines support both 4GL and SQL, and you can use either our SQL-89 or SQL-92 drivers OpenEdge 10 and later engines only support SQL, and you can only use our SQL-92 drivers Your Progress database server's hostname or IP address Whether or not your database queries fire 4GL triggers (primarily a concern for SQL-89 connections) Whether or not your database queries involve Array fields (primarily a concern for SQL-89 connections) Software Requirements Progress Client layer