I am trying to login to remote DB2 using clpplus but can’t login as password contains @. clpplus -nw user/p@sswd@145.xx.xx.212:60000/Dbname but it fails saying: Is there any work around of it? Answer With the bash shell, enclose the password with ‘ and additionally escape the @ with @ (and the same for any special character inside the password, i.e. escape