diff --git a/platform/viewer/public/config/idc.js b/platform/viewer/public/config/idc.js
index 9346217fb..e1ec83799 100644
--- a/platform/viewer/public/config/idc.js
+++ b/platform/viewer/public/config/idc.js
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ window.config = function(props) {
     disableMeasurementPanel: true,
     routerBasename: '/',
     enableGoogleCloudAdapter: true,
+    splitQueryParameterCalls: true, // Allows the user to split QIDO SeriesInstanceUID filters into multiple calls, if the server does not support multi-valued query parameters.
     enableGoogleCloudAdapterUI: false,
     showStudyList: true,
     filterQueryParam: true,
diff --git a/platform/viewer/src/connectedComponents/ViewerRetrieveStudyData.js b/platform/viewer/src/connectedComponents/ViewerRetrieveStudyData.js
index b7f7a9dc2..9ad349b30 100644
--- a/platform/viewer/src/connectedComponents/ViewerRetrieveStudyData.js
+++ b/platform/viewer/src/connectedComponents/ViewerRetrieveStudyData.js
@@ -341,7 +341,10 @@ function ViewerRetrieveStudyData({
         }
       }
 
-      if (appConfig.enableGoogleCloudAdapter) {
+      if (
+        appConfig.splitQueryParameterCalls ||
+        appConfig.enableGoogleCloudAdapter
+      ) {
         retrieveParams.push(true); // Seperate SeriesInstanceUID filter calls.
       }