pass connection to external procedure

I am writing a stored proc that calls out to an external procedure (Windows NT DLL). That DLL needs to do some database stuff, too, via ODBC (in C++). However, I do not want to establish another connection for each call into the DLL. Is there a way to communicate (pass) the database connection down to the DLL, so it can use it via ODBC? It seems to me that I must re-initialize the ODBC connection each time.

Am I missing something obvious?
thanks.

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