diff --git a/asterixdb/asterix-app/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/api/common/APIFramework.java b/asterixdb/asterix-app/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/api/common/APIFramework.java
index 8344d41..0bdc987 100644
--- a/asterixdb/asterix-app/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/api/common/APIFramework.java
+++ b/asterixdb/asterix-app/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/api/common/APIFramework.java
@@ -443,7 +443,7 @@
 
     // Gets the parallelism parameter.
     private static int getParallelism(String parameter, int parallelismInConfiguration) {
-        IOptionType<Integer> integerIPropertyInterpreter = OptionTypes.UNSIGNED_INTEGER;
+        IOptionType<Integer> integerIPropertyInterpreter = OptionTypes.INTEGER;
         return parameter == null ? parallelismInConfiguration : integerIPropertyInterpreter.parse(parameter);
     }
 
diff --git a/asterixdb/asterix-app/src/test/resources/runtimets/queries_sqlpp/replication/bulkload/bulkload.12.query.sqlpp b/asterixdb/asterix-app/src/test/resources/runtimets/queries_sqlpp/replication/bulkload/bulkload.12.query.sqlpp
index cd777cf..92284f0 100644
--- a/asterixdb/asterix-app/src/test/resources/runtimets/queries_sqlpp/replication/bulkload/bulkload.12.query.sqlpp
+++ b/asterixdb/asterix-app/src/test/resources/runtimets/queries_sqlpp/replication/bulkload/bulkload.12.query.sqlpp
@@ -18,5 +18,5 @@
  */
 
 use tpch;
-
+SET `compiler.parallelism` "-1";
 select value count(*) from LineItem;
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