Symptom
You are getting below error while changing the SAPSR3 (or any database user) password.
Scenario 1
You want to change the SAPSR3 password using the BRCONNECT tools but ended with,
BR0801I BRCONNECT 7.20 (36) BR0280I BRCONNECT time stamp: 2014-10-11 18.25.07 BR0828I Changing password for database user SAPSR3 ... BR1628E Invalid charcter '@' in database password BR0832E Changing password for user SAPSR3 failed BR0280I BRCONNECT time stamp: 2014-10-11 18.25.07 BR0804I BRCONNECT terminated with errors
Scenario 2
You are in the midst of executing the system copy and ended up with below error,
An error occurred while processing option SAP Business Suite 2005 > SAP ERP 6.0 Support Release 3 > Software Life-Cycle Options > System Copy > Oracle > Target System Installation > Central System > Based on AS ABAP > Central System
( Last error reported by the step: Process call ‘E:\usr\sap\SID\SYS\exe\nuc\NTAMD64\brconnect.exe -u / -c -f chpass -o SAPSR3 -p XXXXXX’ exits with error code 5. For details see log file(s) brconnect.log.).
You can now:
Choose Retry to repeat the current step.
Choose Log Files to get more information about the error.
Stop the option and continue later.Log files are written to C:/Program Files/sapinst_instdir/BS2005/ERP60SR3/LM/COPY/ORA/SYSTEM/CENTRAL/AS-ABAP.
Solution
Scenario 1
Do not use @ while changing the password. You need to run the BRCONNECT query again without @ in the password.
Scenario 2
In this case, you need to stop the installation and run the system copy with the new option. When comes to SAPSR3 password – Enter a new password without @.
