I wrote to Donna Garverick:

> I think what you mean to do is this:
>
>             export V=`callci 'diskuse /HPSPOOL' | tail -1`
>             echo $V `date` > temp

Donna replies:

> i failed to mention that i tried glenn's export suggestion...
>
> /SYS/PUB: export V=`callci 'diskuse /HPSPOOL' | tail -1`
> export: "/HPSPOOL/" is not an identifier
> /SYS/PUB:

Unfortunately, in fast and furious testing, I made an assumption. (D-oh!)
The problem is really that "export" cannot handle the double duty as given
above.  A solution is to split that statement in two:

        export V
        V=`callci 'diskuse /HPSPOOL' | tail -1`
        echo $V `date` > temp

--Glenn