Job operator restart failed step issue

[vatsla20]

Bug description
I have a spring batch job with eg : 4 steps, the second steps fails and the flow is such that I need to update details so it goes on to the 3rd and 4th steps marks them as complete.
In the end of the job I update the job execution with status and exit status as failed and restart the job.
Step execution :

1. Status - completed , exitstatus - completed
2. Status - failed , exitstatus - failed
3. Status - completed , exitstatus - completed
4. Status - completed , exitstatus - completed
   Job execution status failed and exit status failed

On restart non of the steps are executed again and the job ends successfully.
I want to restart the job from the failed step.

Now if I try to fail the last 3 steps
Step execution :

1. Status - completed , exitstatus - completed
2. Status - failed , exitstatus - failed
3. Status - failed , exitstatus - failed
4. Status - failed , exitstatus - failed
   Job execution status failed and exit status failed

Here only the step 4 is executed on the restart, it's taking only the last failed step.
Environment
Please provide as many details as possible: Spring batch version - 5.1.2
Java version 17

Steps to reproduce
Given above

Expected behavior
How can I make the job restart from the second step which is the actual failed step

[fmbenhassine]

Thank you for opening this issue. The job should restart from the first failed step (step 2 in your case). I do not exclude this to be a bug in Spring Batch, however, I would like to be able to reproduce the issue with an example.

Can you please provide a complete yet minimal example that reproduces the problem? You can start from the project template as explained in Issue Reporting Guide. Thank you upfront.