Upgrade ABL Applications

OpenEdge Release 13 introduces several changes that may require you to upgrade your ABL applications, depending on the features and functionality they use. Follow these guidelines:

1. Remove unsupported code—Remove any use of the following methods and attributes which are no longer supported in OpenEdge 13:
   • The AUDIT-POLICY:ENCRYPT-AUDIT-MAC-KEY() method. Replace this with SECURITY-POLICY:ENCODE-PASSWORD().
   • The ALLOW-PREV-DESERIALIZATION attribute of the SECURITY-POLICY system handle
2. Update application code—Modify your ABL application code in the following cases:
   • Use the SECURITY-POLICY:ENCODE-PASSWORD() method to produce encoded values (such as passwords) that may need to be compared to an unencoded value. To perform the comparison, use the SECURITY-POLICY:VALIDATE-PASSWORD() method.
   • Use the GENERATE-PASSWORD-HASH function to create one-way hashes of values. This should replace any use of ENCODE() for values that do not need to be compared to an unencoded value.