Thousands separator when displaying year in dashboard prompts

In our reports, when we include just the year field in prompts, they display with a thousands separator (e.g. 2,012 for the year 2012)
Does anybody have any ideas on how to fix this. We are on 10.1.3.4 but any hint would be helpful.

Change the year column data type to INT in the physical later. Or you can change the column properties of the column in Answers.
Hope it helps.
Regards,
Kalyan Chukkapalli
http://123obi.com

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