Characters Supported for Installation and Configuration

The following characters are supported during installation and configuration with EPM System Installer and EPM System Configurator.

Table 18. Characters Supported for Installation and Configuration

FieldsSupported CharactersBlocked Characters
PATHAlphanumeric, dash (-), underscores (_), periods ( . ), and tildes (~). Tildes are supported only on Microsoft Windows. All others
Host name

Alphanumeric, dash (-), and dot(.).

EPM System supports IPv6 addresses. However, during installation and configuration, you must enter the host name, not the IPv6 address.

All others
User nameAlphanumeric characters including non-English (extended and double-byte) characters, except for the blocked characters

+ * / # [ ] { } ( ) ; : , @ ! “

Clusters, database names, and other general fields such as DSN namesAlphanumeric characters including non-English (extended and double-byte) characters, except for the blocked characters

+ . - * \ / # [ ] { } ( ) ; : , @ ! “