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


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