---
title: "Immediate and Background Runs"
description: "Small runs finish while you wait; larger ones run in the background, appear under Background Jobs and can be paused, resumed and stopped."
source: "https://help.rikaiso.com/public-cloud/2026.2/immediate-vs-background-runs"
edition: "public-cloud"
editionLabel: "S/4HANA Public Cloud"
version: "2026.2"
latest: true
language: "en"
section: "Working with Master Data > Processing Records into SAP"
updated: "2026-11-05"
---

# Immediate and Background Runs

> Small runs finish while you wait; larger ones run in the background, appear under Background Jobs and can be paused, resumed and stopped.

> **Draft brief for authors.** Replace with the final text; keep the concept-page structure.

**Page type:** Concept · **Audience:** Processor

**Contains:** when a run goes to the background; the time box of an immediate run and its continuation; what you see in each case (result dialog vs Background Jobs row); an immediate run is listed under Background Jobs while it lives and can be stopped, never paused; background runs survive restarts and are resumed by themselves for integration-user tables.

**Related information:** `processing-now`, `following-a-background-run`, `pause-resume-stop`.

**Source in the product repository:** `.claude/rules/mass-processing.md` (D41, INLINE header 2026-10-27).