1. What is the nature and description of the request?

The customer is requesting native support in Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 to pause and resume job executions. This feature would allow a running job to be paused mid-execution and resumed later without restarting or failing the job.

2. Why does the customer need this? (List the business requirements here)

• The customer has deployment pipelines that depend on external validations or manual approvals between job steps.

• They need the ability to pause execution at a controlled step in the job. This helps avoid job failures, resource wastage, or re-execution of complex playbooks from scratch.

3. How would you like to achieve this? (List the functional requirements here)

• Preserve job state, environment, and output logs during pause to allow seamless continuation.

• Ensure that resuming does not re-run completed steps but continues from the exact paused point.