Luis Semedo Duarte wrote:

> but it does take a lot of time to process it.
> Is there any way to output status messages back to the user/app?

Why don't you simply output the messages from the application that does
the import of data?

> Is there any similar functionality is FB?

Maybe you could use an external table and insert rows into it, rows
containing progress information.

Or, you could use a generator (you'd need a separate generator for that
import process) and increase its value. This will only give you a single
numeric value, but maybe that's enough.

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