Bug ID 2047189: On rSeries system, FIPS partition name should use escape sequence for special characters.

Last Modified: Mar 24, 2026

Affected Product(s):
F5OS F5OS-A(all modules)

Known Affected Versions:
F5OS-A 1.8.3

Opened: Sep 03, 2025

Severity: 3-Major

Symptoms

Partitions are created with truncated names when the name contains a special character. appliance-1(config)# fips set-partition name T!est keys 1000 accel-devs 2 Value for 'so-password' (<string, min: 7 chars, max: 30 chars>): ******** result fips partition T has been created appliance-1(config)# exit appliance-1# show fips partitions OCCUPIED ACCEL FIPS SESSION SESSION PCI NAME KEYS DEVS BACKUP STATE KEYS COUNT ADDRESS ---------------------------------------------------------------- T 3100 2 disabled -1 0 0 c3:10.4 appliance-1#

Impact

The partitions are not created with expected name.

Conditions

-- Creating a partition -- Special characters like ; and ! are used in partition name.

Workaround

None

Fix Information

None

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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