in webapps/jasperserver/WEB-INF/flows/reportDataSourceBeans.xml edit this line: <entry key="dbName"> <value><![CDATA[^[p{L}p{M}p{N}s.,-}{]+$]]></value> </entry>[/code]to: <entry key="dbName"><value><![CDATA[^[p{L}p{M}p{N}p{Pc}s.,-}{]+$]]></value> </entry>[/code] you can do this with the other entries in the same area in this file as well: * dbHost * sName * .. After editing this - I could enter in the database name, though there is another bug with autocompleting the database url. For this you probably should edit some java code. Workaround: configure a JNDI Datasource: http://community.jaspersoft.com/wiki/data-source-troubleshooting