On TS3500s, I believe the library control interface for a partition is assigned to one of the tape drives in that partition. Thus, with no drives, there can be no control of the partition. I believe the answer is that this is not possible - you must have at least one drive assigned to each partition.
..Paul At 11:25 AM 1/9/2013, Thomas Denier wrote: >I am in the process of setting up a test environment for our Version 6 >TSM servers. The servers run under zSeries Linux and are currently at >the 6.2.2.0 level. The main motivation for setting up a test environment >at this time is to support an upgrade in the near future. > >Our production environment uses a TS3500 tape library with the ALMS >feature. We will need tape infrastructure available to the test >environment for some tests, but we do not wish to have any tape drives >permanently attached to the test environment. Is it possible to have a >logical library remain in existence with tape volumes assigned but with >no tape drives assigned? > >Thomas Denier >Thomas Jefferson University -- Paul Zarnowski Ph: 607-255-4757 CIT Infrastructure / Storage Services Fx: 607-255-8521 719 Rhodes Hall, Ithaca, NY 14853-3801 Em: p...@cornell.edu