History Data Copy Job Failing with ORA-01017: invalid username/password in 8.0.5 (Doc ID 2478871.1)

Symptoms

HDC job is failing with the below errors while running the BATCH.

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Exiting Job at : Thu Nov 01 11:35:47 PGT 2018 with code -1
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[Fri  02/11/2018 07:03:13] [HDC] [ INFO] - HDC - Message 265110: Starting Historical Data Copy at Fri Nov 02 19:03:13 PGT 2018
[Fri  02/11/2018 07:03:14] [HDC] [FATAL] - HDC - Message 265118: Exception starting HDC: Error reading meta data from DB: java.sql.SQLException: ORA-01017: invalid username/password; logon denied

[Fri  02/11/2018 07:03:14] [HDC] [ INFO] - HDC - Message 270024:
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Exiting Job at : Fri Nov 02 19:03:14 PGT 2018 with code -1
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However the user credentials are working fine in all the other jobs/tasks, we tried manually connecting to the data base , we dont have any issue with user credentials.
But in this particular job we are facing this issue.



Please let me know, if we need to apply any patch for this issue.

Cause

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