App Auto scaler or Usage Service errands is failing in TAS installation

Products

• VMware Tanzu Application Service for VMs

Issue/Introduction

App Auto Scaler or Usage Service errands may fail with following error when using an external database with TAS.
 

2023-08-14T08:05:54.81+0000 [APP/PROC/WEB/0] OUT time="2023-08-14T08:05:54Z" level=fatal msg="Failed to initialize repository handlerparse \"mysql://bosh:********@tasrds01.abcdef.us-east-1.rds.amazonaws.com:3306/autoscale\": invalid port \":>somestring>\" after host"

Environment

Product Version: 2.13

Resolution

This is a parsing error caused by passwords for "Autoscaling service database password" or "Usage Service database password" in TAS -> Databases containing a question mark character (?) which is breaking parsing process for those 2 errands.