SAP progress indicator bar to show percentage complete within ABAP report

The progress indicator adds a small timer in the lower left corner of the SAP screen. It not only provides the user with an indication of percentage completeness but also stops reports timing out. It does this by reseting the timeout timer whenever it is called.

UPDATE!!!
Progress indicator no-longer prevents timeout in later versions of SAP so you can use TH_REDISPATCH


*&************************************************************
*& DESCRIPTION: Demonstrate Progress indicator               *
*&************************************************************
REPORT  zprogind.

TYPES: BEGIN OF t_mara,
         matnr LIKE mara-matnr,
       END OF t_mara.
DATA: it_mara TYPE STANDARD TABLE OF t_mara INITIAL SIZE 0,
      wa_mara TYPE t_mara.
DATA: mara_lines TYPE i,
      gd_percent TYPE i.


**************************************************************
*START-OF-SELECTION.
START-OF-SELECTION.

  SELECT matnr
    INTO TABLE it_mara
    FROM mara.

  CHECK sy-subrc EQ 0.
  mara_lines = sy-dbcnt.
  clear: gd_percent.

  LOOP AT it_mara INTO wa_mara.
    PERFORM progress_bar USING 'Retrieving data...'(001)
                               sy-tabix
                               mara_lines.
*    WAIT UP TO 2 SECONDS.
  ENDLOOP.

  WRITE: /20 'Report is "Complete" OK'.


*&---------------------------------------------------------------------*
*&      Form  PROGRESS_BAR
*&---------------------------------------------------------------------*
FORM progress_bar USING    p_value
                           p_tabix
                           p_nlines.

  DATA: w_text(40),
        w_percentage TYPE p,
        w_percent_char(3).

  w_percentage = ( p_tabix / p_nlines ) * 100.
  w_percent_char = w_percentage.
  SHIFT w_percent_char LEFT DELETING LEADING ' '.
  CONCATENATE p_value w_percent_char '% Complete'(002) INTO w_text.

* This check needs to be in otherwise when looping around big tables
* SAP will re-display indicator too many times causing report to run
* very slow. (No need to re-display same percentage anyway)
  if w_percentage gt gd_percent or p_tabix eq 1.
    CALL FUNCTION 'SAPGUI_PROGRESS_INDICATOR'
        EXPORTING
           percentage = w_percentage
           text       = w_text.
   gd_percent = w_percentage.
  endif.
endform.                    " PROGRESS_BAR

SAP percentage complete progress indicator bar for your ABAP reports