There is a dynamic drive sharing capability, but be aware that you cannot use 
it if you are also using drive encryption.

At 05:01 PM 1/9/2013, Remco Post wrote:
>You need at least one drive in your alms partition with a control path, but, 
>that drive can (I think) also be in another alms partition. Just make sure 
>it's only used actively in either PR or in Test at one time.
>
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>Met vriendelijke groeten/Kind regards,
>
>Remco Post
>r.post AT plcs DOT nl
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>
>
>Op 9 jan. 2013, om 17:25 heeft Thomas Denier <Thomas.Denier AT 
>JEFFERSONHOSPITAL DOT ORG> het volgende geschreven:
>
>> 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


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