3654684 - AS Java startup issue post maintaining/adding custom filter

System fails to start after adding a filter to disable a particular service.

• System fails to start with error message:
  Loading services.
  ERROR: Server process failed to start due to:
  java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Invalid filter format disable:*:sap.com:XYZABCD
    at com.sap.engine.lib.config.impl.filters.ComponentFilterImpl.<init>(ComponentFilterImpl.java:52)
    at com.sap.engine.lib.config.impl.filters.FilterHandlerImpl.parseLine(FilterHandlerImpl.java:143)
  [...]

Also while opening configtool and selecting template, observed the following error:

• In configtool.trc:
  #Warning#configtool#
  com.sap.ASJ.cft.000176#BC-JAS-ADM-ADM-CFT#sap.com~tc~je~configtool#C0000A9ACC5C0000000000011D73D52D###configtool########Thread[AWT-EventQueue-0,6,main]#Plain##
  Can't load filters for 'ZATPL_AIO' on custom template level.
  java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Invalid filter format disable:*:sap.com:XYZABCD
    at com.sap.engine.lib.config.impl.filters.ComponentFilterImpl.<init>(ComponentFilterImpl.java:52)
    at com.sap.engine.lib.config.impl.filters.FilterHandlerImpl.parseLine(FilterHandlerImpl.java:143)
  [...]

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