Extended Drilldown - Show Path to Top - loses focus on current selected Location

Extended Drilldown does not work in the same fashion as the standard drilldown when using "Show Path to Top".

Focus is lost from the original location and all paths are opened so that the user can no longer identify the location currently selected.

This was reported after demonstrating the fault to IBM. We believe this to be a fault / bug but we got this reply:

Dev has completed their investigation into the difference in behavior between the standard drilldown and the extended drilldown, their findings is that although the behavior is different, it was implemented this way due to a limitation of the framework, the original drilldown is based on one table (LOCATIONS table) on the Locations tab, however, the Extended (new) drilldown has a mixture of objects in single tree. While they acknowledge that Show Path to Top in old drilldown is one path from the current node to the top node - a clear path but in extended drilldown, it found the top node and behaves from the top/down of the drilldown, a fix is outside the scope of an IFIX and therefore has been declined for an APAR.

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