Can you paginate Workday RaaS responses?

I've seen the question, "Can you paginate Workday RaaS (Report as a Service)?" pop up at least two times in the past few months.

The short answer - "You can't paginate RaaS requests in Workday."

Kind of a bummer since sometimes the response time or response size can exceed predefined maximum limits for third party integration tools.

Research

I found two brainstorms (currently being replaced with the Ideation Hub) that requrested RaaS pagination, but neither were implemented.

• 2014 Request - Status: Closed
• 2020 Request - Status: More Information Needed

Work arounds

I tried brainstorming some workarounds and came up with 5 ideas. They are somewhat organized by least to most disruptive to an existing RaaS integration approach.

• Optimize filters to reduce data or speed up the report.
• Optimize prompts (URL parameters) to reduce data or speed up the report. Consider running the report one time for each org division or something similar.
• Split the report into smaller reports with fewer fields.
• Switch to a SOAP API request with pagination, like Get_Workers.
• Use the task Convert Report to WQL Query since WQL does support pagination.