Extend parameter functionality by adding custom LOV

I would like the ability to create a custom list of values for a parameter that the report/dashboard user can select from. Currently, parameters are limited to a free-form text field that the user must enter text for. This requires the user to know exactly what text needs to be entered as a parameter.

It would be very helpful to have the option as a report developer to set a predefined LOV for a parameter so the user can select the parameter value from a list of options.

The use cases for this are many. One example is that I have a database function used for tuning query performance based on configuration options for an aggregate function. A report user would never know what to enter as db function parameters without reading some documentation that wouldn't make sense to them. Instead, if they had a LOV to select from with user friendly options at report runtime then they would intuitively know how to use the parameter/filter.

This would be great to have this along with the ability to have a code and display name configuration much like how reference codes are configured. The code value would be what I would actually feed to the db as a SQL parameter and the display name would be the option the user would see that is connected to the code value.

Currently, the only way I can think of to do something like this is a long workaround to create a virtual table with this kind of code/display name as a lookup table, join to the data table, and then use the values in the virtual table as filter options. That is far from ideal and requires unnecessary SQL joins.

Thanks