Spring Batch step configuration: infinite loop

Question

everyone. I'm using Spring Batch. I have a job composed of 3 step: Step1, Step2, Step3. With these 3 steps I configured a loop of this kind:

      +--> Step1 --> Step2 --> Step3 --+
      |                                |
      +--------------------------------+

I want to execute this loop for 3 times.

At the end of the 1st iteration, Spring Batch has an instance of the execution of each step: each step execution instance has a status BatchStatus.COMPLETED and an exit status ExitStatus.COMPLETED.

During the 2nd iteration, the Step1 completes successfully; the Step2 fails.

Now, if I try to re-run the job, Spring Batch does not execute Step1: it's COMPLETED; so it executes Step2. Step2 completes successfully and now the problem arises: Spring Batch does not execute Step3: there is a step execution instance of Step3 in db that is COMPLETED (that one created after the 1st iteration); at the same time it does note execute Step1 for an analogous reason. So it executes Step2 in an infinite loop!

What can I do? I would like that at the 2nd attempt of executing the job, after the Step2, the Step3 is executed, and then the Step1 and so on.

Thanks in advance.