Spams Nospams Specifies whether to enable the creation of space area management (SPAM) pages or to disable the creation of SPAM pages (Nospams) for specified storage areas when converting read/write storage areas to write-once storage areas or vice versa. This qualifier is not permitted with a storage area that has a uniform page format. When SPAM pages are disabled in a read/write storage area, the SPAM pages are initialized, but they are not updated. The Spams qualifier is a positional qualifier.