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>    If I'm reading your question correctly, you'll cringe when you read the
> answer...
>      :REPORT OUT.HPSPOOL
>      or
>      :REPORT @.HPSPOOL

well, yes, i'm cringing 8-}  i guess i'm wanting something abit more
sophisticated than good ol' report.  what i've been playing with (but not having
much success) is -- from inside the shell...
/SYS/PUB: callci "diskuse /HPSPOOL"|tail -1 > temp

now, temp (yes, it's badly named...) contains almost exactly what i want:
    360416       10336   /HPSPOOL/

where i've been running into trouble is trying to get a time stamp onto that
'record' in one swell foop :-)  one of my fellow (unix, poor frank) admins
suggested setting a variable with the above command (less the final >) then
echoing the variable along with `date` (gee, did you ever think you'd see an
mpe-er deliberately back quoting? :-) out to a file.  something like...
/SYS/PUB: export V='callci "diskuse /HPSPOOL"|tail -1'
/SYS/PUB: echo $V `date` > temp

what i'm getting, however, is literally the contents of V along with a time stamp
:-(

any suggestions?            - d

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