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**[Michael Minella](https://jira.spring.io/secure/ViewProfile.jspa?name=mminella)** commented 1. Does this issue persist in the 3.0.x branch? 2.2.x is no longer maintained. 2. How is this issue different from [BATCH-2403](https://jira.spring.io/browse/BATCH-2403) which you point out?

**[Erwin Vervaet](https://jira.spring.io/secure/ViewProfile.jspa?name=klr8)** commented [Michael Minella](https://jira.spring.io/secure/ViewProfile.jspa?name=mminella), 1. We're still on 2.2.7 so I haven't verified that yet. I'll upgrade and test this next week. 2. [BATCH-2403](https://jira.spring.io/browse/BATCH-2403) is ultimately about the noRetry...

**[Albert Strasser](https://jira.spring.io/secure/ViewProfile.jspa?name=your2fat)** commented Hi Erwin, You might be correct that we are looking at 2 different issues here. My assumption was that just checking if an exception was fatal (last...

**[Erwin Vervaet](https://jira.spring.io/secure/ViewProfile.jspa?name=klr8)** commented I can now also confirm that the problem is reproducible with Spring Batch 3.0.4. Attached you can find DEBUG level Spring Batch logging for an occurrence of...

**[Erwin Vervaet](https://jira.spring.io/secure/ViewProfile.jspa?name=klr8)** commented As a _temporary work-around_, we're now forcing a transaction flush (using `EntityManager.flush()`) from inside our ItemProcessor. This way Spring Batch will correctly retry or fail the batch...

**[Erwin Vervaet](https://jira.spring.io/secure/ViewProfile.jspa?name=klr8)** commented [Michael Minella](https://jira.spring.io/secure/ViewProfile.jspa?name=mminella), Can you given any feedback related to this issue? Given that if confirmed this is a critical bug I would say this has some priority.

**[Andrei Amariei](https://jira.spring.io/secure/ViewProfile.jspa?name=andrei.amariei)** commented Also affected by this issue. I attached [^step_succeeds_when_commit_fails.patch] that adds a failing test to _spring-batch-samples_ module, maybe it helps moving it forward.

**[Erwin Vervaet](https://jira.spring.io/secure/ViewProfile.jspa?name=klr8)** commented Thanks for that [Andrei Amariei](https://jira.spring.io/secure/ViewProfile.jspa?name=andrei.amariei)!

**[Andrei Amariei](https://jira.spring.io/secure/ViewProfile.jspa?name=andrei.amariei)** commented One concern I have with flushing is that it can add side effects to an unsuccessful _write_ phase. For example: * given inputs are entities and hibernate's...