Pause Spring Batch Steps by using the JobExecutionDecider

[jgoldverg]

Currently we have no way of pausing spring steps. All what we have been able to do is limit of the size of the Step pool to thereby control concurrency slowly.

What we want to implement is the ability to pause a step and then continue it based on some business logic. This apparently can be done
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/77100754/how-to-implement-custom-controller-that-will-allow-me-to-stop-a-step-in-spring-b/77102852#77102852

In the event this is not sufficient we will see what other possible solutions we have.