Making work SAS 9.2 and Oracle 11

I have to make SAS talk to Oracle today. I'm not very familiar with these products yet, and I was very unhappy that SAS 9.2 don't want work with Oracle client 11.2.

I made a quick search and not found anything valuable that could help me from the first site.
I take a look at the log file and found that module sasora, which SAS/ACCESS used to communicate with Oracle, could could not load libclntsh.9.so. Do search what the it is and found that this is library from Oracle Client version 9.

Who know who is wrong Oracle developers which does not have common library which could be reused across different version of client, or SAS who make direct link to Oracle 9 client library and since when didn't update sasora, to match with new versions. Who cares? This thing happens and I have to figure out how to solve that.

I try find how to install Oracle client version 9, but didn't found it on official Oracle website. For sure maybe this installation exists somewhere in the Oracle Download Center, but seems that this is very aging version and Oracle try to forgate about it. So I do the same, cross finger and create libclntsh.so.9.0 as soft link to libclntsh.so.11.1.

So far, so good.

Quick and Dirty Fix:

function fix_sas2ora_link()
{
  ORA_HOME=/usr/lib/oracle/11.2/client64
  ln -s ${ORA_HOME}/lib/libclntsh.so.11.1 ${ORA_HOME}/lib/libclntsh.so
  ln -s ${ORA_HOME}/lib/libclntsh.so.11.1 ${ORA_HOME}/lib/libclntsh.so.9.0
}

Be very careful with such type of fixes, as nobedy know what happens.
Since I need this working today, I made decision leave with that.

Then couple hours after that I found on the SAS support forum page where described how to made quick fix that in more clean way.
http://support.sas.com/kb/37/613.html

Hurray, no need for dirty fixes any more.
Hopefully this is helps.