colon is a meta (special) character in asadmin. It's used as a separator for multiple property values.
e.g.
Usage: create-jdbc-connection-pool --datasourceclassname classname [--terse=false] [--echo=false] [--interactive=true] [--host localhost] [--port 4848|4849] [--secure | -s] [--user admin_user] [--passwordfile file_name] [--restype res_type] [--steadypoolsize 8] [--maxpoolsize 32] [--maxwait 60000] [--poolresize 2] [--idletimeout 300] [--isolationlevel isolation_level] [--isisolationguaranteed] [--isconnectvalidatereq=false] [--validationmethod auto-commit] [--validationtable tablename] [--failconnection=false] [--allownoncomponentcallers=false] [--nontransactionalconnections=false] [--description text] [--property (name=value)[:name=value]*] jdbc_connection_pool_id
That's the reason why you need to escape the ":".
HTH,
Jane
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