Can OBIEE automatically update a filter if underlying data changes?

Suppose there is a saved request that shows some data set, and it uses the following filter: "Country_Name is equal to / is in USA".
Now suppose that the value in the underlying data source changes from "USA" to "United States". The aforementioned request would now return no data, since there is no "USA" anymore.
Other than changing the way the request was initially designed (i.e. setting the filter to use the Country_ID instead of Country_Name), how would you handle this case? Is there an approach to use in OBIEE that would handle updating the filter automatically? Is this simply bad report design? Do you build something into the ETL process that triggers some action (either manual or automated) if dimension tables are updated? I could probably do an XML Search and Replace in the catalog upon learning that the value changed, but I'm wondering if there is a better way.
Any thoughts?

First of all: The best way to avoid this is to use saved filters in your report... then you only need to change these filters, instead of every single report.
I don't think it is possible to automatically change the underlying filters of a report when data changes.
About ETL: when you implement a Type 2 Slowly Changing Dimension you will create a new record for the dimension when the value of a column changes, to preserve the history. This means you will get two records with two row_ids. In your fact table you will use the dimension's new row_id for new data.
For your report this means that it will give the same results for old data (because it filters on "USA"), but it won't show the new data, since it doesn't filter on "United States". So I don't think this ETL approach will solve your problem.
Maybe a Type 3 Slowly Changing Dimension can help you. This means that you will preserve the history in the same record, using 2 columns for example "Current Country" and "Prior Country". This can solve your problem because you will filter on the same records (which is not the case in Type 2 SCD). But it means you will get two country columns, which is not the most elegant solution maybe..
So maybe going through all your reports is the best way to solve your problem for now and encourage the report builders to use saved filters in their reports.
Regards,
Stijn

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