Characters permitted for passwords in Automic

Products

• CA Automic Workload Automation - Automation Engine

Issue/Introduction

Allowed characters that can be used in passwords for Automation Engine objects as well as in prompt sets

Environment

Automation Engine Version: 21.0.x and 24.0.x

Resolution

The only special character " & " is prohibited from being used in automic passwords.
Since the automation engine script is overruled by it. 

Additional Information

If you are using & as a character in the password, you will be seeing an error like below on the AWI on the details section for the particular object.

U00021719 Syntax error in object 'XXXXXXXXXX', line '00000'. 'U01001308 Variable '&****' has not yet been defined.'.