Standard and non-standard dispersed storage network data access

A computing device of a dispersed storage network (DSN) comprises:

• a memory;
• an interface;
• a processing module, wherein the processing module is operably coupled to the memory and the interface, and wherein the processing module is operable to:
• receive, via the interface, a non-standard data access request regarding a set of encoded data slices, wherein a data segment of data is dispersed storage error encoded into the of encoded data slices, wherein the set of encoded data slices are stored in a set of storage units of the DSN, and wherein the non-standard data access request includes a set of network identifiers of the set of storage units, a data identifier corresponding to the data, and a data access function;
• convert the non-standard data access request into one or more DSN slice names;
• determine whether the one or more DSN slice names are within a slice name range allocated to the computing device;
• and
• when the one or more DSN slice names are within the slice name range, execute the data access function regarding one or more encoded data slices corresponding to the one or more DSN slice names.