The SAS/Access interface to oracle cannot be loaded. ERROR

[Mastanvali]

Hi Team,

Few are able to access and few or not able to access. While trying to connect to db by using SAS

[Anand_V]

Hi @Mastanvali 

If few are able to connect then I believe the configuration is fine. I would suggest for the user who isn't able to login successfully to try connecting oracle from command line directly outside of SAS to validate he is able to connect. It's probably the environment variables required for oracle to function properly aren't set for few users. If user is able to connect from client, it should work from SAS as well.

https://go.documentation.sas.com/?docsetId=bidsag&docsetTarget=p1w3v98qca3sfzn1rzty2tngrfyq.htm&docs...

[Mastanvali]

Hi Anand,

we are using reflection to access the SAS and we are able to access Oracle db by using toad or sql developer. But using SAS only we are facing the attached issue.

Here surprising thing is where the required things regarding db related information paths we do not know exactly. Please assist me on this issue

[Anand_V]

Please see the steps below:

To use SAS/ACCESS Interface to Oracle, you must set the ORACLE_HOME environment variable.
In addition, you must make sure that the shared library path variable (the name of this variable is
operating system dependent) points to where the Oracle shared libraries are located. This is
required since the SAS/ACCESS Interface to Oracle executable uses Oracle shared libraries and
needs to know where they are located at your site.

If the environment variables are not set correctly, you will see error messages similar to the
following when connecting to Oracle from SAS:
ERROR: Could not load /app/SAS/SASFoundation/9.4/sasexe/sasora (86
images loaded)
ERROR: Could not load module
/app/SAS/SASFoundation/9.4/sasexe/sasora. Dependent module
libclntsh.a(shr.o) could not be loaded.Could not load module
libclntsh.a(shr.o).System error: No such file or directoryCould not
load module /app/SAS/SASFoundation/9.4/sasexe/sasora. Dependent
module /app/SAS/SASFoundation/9.4/sasexe/sasora could not be loaded. 
ERROR: The SAS/ACCESS Interface to ORACLE cannot be loaded.
ERROR: Image SASORA found but not loadable.
ERROR: Error in the LIBNAME statement.

Source: Configuration Guide for SAS 9.4 Foundation for UNIX Environments