Changing access password - error - we can't change user password without using the REPLACE

In using datamover issuing the "change_access_password <symbolicid> <newpwd>" command ... when I execute this command I get the following error

Stmt #: 782  Error Position: 0  Return: 28221 - ORA-28221: REPLACE not specified Failed SQL stmt: ALTER USER SYSADM IDENTIFIED BY <newpwd>;

I know security has changed and we can no longer change our passwords on the database side without using the REPLACE ... how do we work around this when issuing the datamover change_access_password command?