In my article about cl_progress_indicator I've mentioned that sometimes progress showing is more time consuming than the action which is described by it, so you must be careful when using progress ...
I know that many times showing any progress information isn't something that developer likes to have in his program, especially when it's so fast that progress indicator only slows it down horribly, ...
... you have several systems in your workspace, it will take a while to logon to all the systems. The progress you can follow in the Progress View.
Beside the preferences page a new view is ...
... don't want to use it at the moment then you could use FM TH_REDISPATCH with the check_runtime parameter equal to 0. You could also you FM SAPGUI_PROGRESS_INDICATOR for the same purpose but keep in ...