From 9db4d5f4f957c460953eee46f59624f484399d45 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Aditya-ranjan-16 <aditya16ranjan@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2025 13:10:43 +0530
Subject: [PATCH 1/3] feat: Add UI regex validation

---
 ibm_catalog.json | 17 +++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/ibm_catalog.json b/ibm_catalog.json
index 0c8ff39..9004e3a 100644
--- a/ibm_catalog.json
+++ b/ibm_catalog.json
@@ -245,7 +245,13 @@
             {
               "key": "prefix",
               "required": true,
-              "description": "The prefix to add to all resources that this solution creates. To not use any prefix value, you can enter the string `__NULL__`."
+              "value_constraints": [
+                {
+                  "type": "regex",
+                  "description": "Prefix must begin with a lowercase letter and may contain only lowercase letters, digits, and hyphens '-'. It must not end with a hyphen('-'), and cannot contain consecutive hyphens ('--'). It should not exceed 16 characters.",
+                  "value": "^$|^__NULL__$|^[a-z](?!.*--)(?:[a-z0-9-]{0,14}[a-z0-9])?$"
+                }
+              ]
             },
             {
               "key": "existing_resource_group_name",
@@ -748,7 +754,14 @@
           "configuration": [
             {
               "key": "prefix",
-              "required": true
+              "required": true,
+              "value_constraints": [
+                {
+                  "type": "regex",
+                  "description": "Prefix must begin with a lowercase letter and may contain only lowercase letters, digits, and hyphens '-'. It must not end with a hyphen('-'), and cannot contain consecutive hyphens ('--'). It should not exceed 16 characters.",
+                  "value": "^$|^__NULL__$|^[a-z](?!.*--)(?:[a-z0-9-]{0,14}[a-z0-9])?$"
+                }
+              ]
             },
             {
               "key": "existing_resource_group_name",

From e4eeddcb8f6f0ff7cdc3174038a7a2889c01d2c5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Aditya-ranjan-16 <aditya16ranjan@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2025 13:25:39 +0530
Subject: [PATCH 2/3] fix

---
 solutions/fully-configurable/variables.tf | 2 +-
 solutions/quickstart/variables.tf         | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/solutions/fully-configurable/variables.tf b/solutions/fully-configurable/variables.tf
index 19de48a..410ddec 100644
--- a/solutions/fully-configurable/variables.tf
+++ b/solutions/fully-configurable/variables.tf
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ locals {
 variable "prefix" {
   type        = string
   nullable    = true
-  description = "The prefix to be added to all resources created by this solution. To skip using a prefix, set this value to null or an empty string. The prefix must begin with a lowercase letter and may contain only lowercase letters, digits, and hyphens '-'. It should not exceed 16 characters, must not end with a hyphen('-'), and can not contain consecutive hyphens ('--'). Example: prod-0205-ocpai. [Learn more](https://terraform-ibm-modules.github.io/documentation/#/prefix.md)."
+  description = "The prefix to add to all resources that this solution creates (e.g `prod`, `test`, `dev`). To skip using a prefix, set this value to null or an empty string. [Learn more](https://terraform-ibm-modules.github.io/documentation/#/prefix.md)."
 
   validation {
     # - null and empty string is allowed
diff --git a/solutions/quickstart/variables.tf b/solutions/quickstart/variables.tf
index 59c2aef..95e8fe6 100644
--- a/solutions/quickstart/variables.tf
+++ b/solutions/quickstart/variables.tf
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ variable "provider_visibility" {
 variable "prefix" {
   type        = string
   nullable    = true
-  description = "The prefix to be added to all resources created by this solution. To skip using a prefix, set this value to null or an empty string. The prefix must begin with a lowercase letter and may contain only lowercase letters, digits, and hyphens '-'. It should not exceed 16 characters, must not end with a hyphen('-'), and can not contain consecutive hyphens ('--'). Example: prod-0205-ocpai. [Learn more](https://terraform-ibm-modules.github.io/documentation/#/prefix.md)."
+  description = "The prefix to add to all resources that this solution creates (e.g `prod`, `test`, `dev`). To skip using a prefix, set this value to null or an empty string. [Learn more](https://terraform-ibm-modules.github.io/documentation/#/prefix.md)."
 
   validation {
     # - null and empty string is allowed

From 248f5f98278dd9916bbb0c148c9cbd6a13a29636 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Aditya-ranjan-16 <aditya16ranjan@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2025 15:14:49 +0530
Subject: [PATCH 3/3] update catalog

---
 ibm_catalog.json | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/ibm_catalog.json b/ibm_catalog.json
index 9004e3a..b30b16a 100644
--- a/ibm_catalog.json
+++ b/ibm_catalog.json
@@ -245,6 +245,10 @@
             {
               "key": "prefix",
               "required": true,
+              "default_value": "dev",
+              "random_string": {
+                "length": 4
+              },
               "value_constraints": [
                 {
                   "type": "regex",
@@ -755,6 +759,10 @@
             {
               "key": "prefix",
               "required": true,
+              "default_value": "dev",
+              "random_string": {
+                "length": 4
+              },
               "value_constraints": [
                 {
                   "type": "regex",