Restarting an ABANDONED step

[binoy.mathew]

Hi

I need to restart a job which has the failed step marked as "ABANDONED".

This is the scenario.
I have 4 steps in my job, A --> B --> C --> D. Step D needs to be executed regardless of any previous step failing. So I specify a <next on="*" to="stepD" /> in step C configuration.

Now, if step C fails, I move on to step D. The problem is that step C gets marked as "ABANDONED" and not "FAILED" by the framework. So when I restart this job, it does not allow me to restart step C.

Is there some way in which I can prevent step C from being marked as "ABANDONED" or some way in which I can set step C status back to "FAILED" in step D?

(I am using Batch 2.0).

Thanks for your help.

[LionelFromParis]

I have exactely the same problem
Is it a way to force the status to FAILED instead of ABANDONNED into a flowJob ???