If you add use strict; use warnings; at the beginning of your script, Perl will tell you what you are doing wrong.

UPDATE: I cannot test this but I guess you need a chomp. Here is how I would write it:

use strict;
use warnings;

sub ReadPolicies {
    my $type = shift;
    my @Policies = `/opt/OV/bin/opctemplate -l | grep -i $type | awk '
+{print \$2}'`;
    return @Policies;
}

for( ReadPolicies( "DBSPI" ) ){
    chomp; # not sure this is required....
    my $cmd = "/opt/OV/bin/opctemplate -e $_";
    print "$cmd\n";
    my $output= `$cmd`;
    print "$output\n";
}

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