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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Remco Post
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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