In addition to be started by the centralized daemon 'dscheck', request processes can be started manually by DSS specialists can process manually, providing request indices while executing Action -BR (-BuildRequest) of 'dsrqst'. A request can only be processed manually by a specialist who is listed as the one who controls the request.
Data files of a processed request are staged on RDA Server temporarily for online download or access via NCAR internal computers. DSS specialist can also urge a request manually at due time by providing the request index to run 'dsrqst' with Action -PR (-PurgeRequest).
Request information can be processed and purged via Actions in this section:
| Process Partitions | run 'dsrqst' to process one or multiple |
| Purge Individual Requests | run 'dsrqst' to purge one or multiple due requests |
| Change Purge Time | change purge time of online requests for them |
| Clean Request Information | clean one or multiple requests by deleting the files |
| Unlock Request Information | unlock one or multiple request records for |
| Interrupt Requests | interrupt Queued requests by setting their |
| Unlock Partitions | unlock one or multiple partition records for |
| Interrupt Partitions | interrupt Queued partitions by setting their |
| Restore Purged Requests | recreate a request that is purged already |
| Restore Purged Requests | recreate a request that is purged already be restore the request and its file information saved in the purge records |