You can used the  message command to get feedback from your background programs.  The message will be display on the Job Log Entries.  With the message command you can display the routinue and the variable data field the program is processing.

• Transaction SM37 and hit Enter
• Double click on your program name and the job entries log is shown

* double click on z1 to check whether is it created.
* create a message number in z1  e.g. 001 & & & &
report zxxxx message-id z1.

message i001 with 'Start of loop'.

loop at ....
    message i001 with mara-matnr.
endloop.

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