A method begins with receiving data objects. As the data objects are received, the method continues by assigning a data type identifier to each data object based on the data object being a data type. The method continues with sending data objects having a first data type identifier to a first group of computing devices and sending data objects having a second data type identifier to a second group. The method continues with interpreting, by the first group, the data objects having the first data type identifier to sort, based on sorting criteria the data objects into a first processing category and a second processing category. The method continues with dispersed storage error encoding the data objects in the second processing category based on short term storage error encoding parameters to produce pluralities of sets of encoded data slices and sending the slices to storage and execution units.