"ERROR: CLI error trying to establish connection..." occurs after you upgrade to SAS® Viya® 2026.03 LTS or SAS® Viya® 2026.05


After you upgrade to SAS Viya 2026.03 LTS or 2026.05, one of the following errors might occur:

ERROR: CLI error trying to establish connection: [SAS][ODBC SQL Server Wire Protocol driver]Unable to dynamically load client DLL S0openssl.so. : [SAS][ODBC SQL Server Wire Protocol driver]SSL Initialization failure.  

or

ERROR: CLI error trying to establish connection: [SAS][ODBC SQL Server Wire Protocol driver]Unable to determine the OpenSSL version for: /usr/lib64/libcrypto.so.1.1

A fix for this issue is planned for a future software release.

Workaround

To work around this issue, specify the following options in the ODBC data source:

SSLLibName=/usr/lib64/libssl.so.3 
CryptoLibname=/usr/lib64/libcrypto.so.3