Nate was a founding member of the International DB2 Users Group (IDUG). He was recognized by IBM as an Information Champion in 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2016. His main activity is linked to DB2 for z/OS and LUW performance. Currently, he is Executive Senior VP of Tcorem and President of Nate Murphy & Associates. Specializing in the conversion and testing of COBOL external stored procedures to native stored procedures. Nate Murphy has fifty one years of mainframe innovative information technology experience. He has an extensive background in continuous operational mainframe mission-critical database management systems and testing. He is one of those rare ‘fifth level’ assembler programmers. He is currently president of the Tridex DB2 LUW & z/OS database users groups in NY and member of the Philadelphia DB2 database users group (DVDUG) Board of Directors.Nate took an early retirement offer from IBM in 1990 and establishing Nate Murphy & Associates to conduct DB2 Vendor Fairs throughout the US in conjunction with IBM and local DB2 Users Groups. Prior to retirement Nate worked in several positions in the IBM DP Division, as an IMS database, application development and data elements specialist. He was an early advocate of relational technology and worked with relational icons such as C J Date, Dr. E F Codd. Nate was instrumental in the creation of the International DB2 Users Group (IDUG) and a founding member. Title: (New) The inception of #IDUGDB2 through the eyes of one of its founding membersPosted by: Dan Luksetich in IDUG: International DB2 Users GroupLink: https://www.linkedin.com/comm/groups/46747/46747-6152173979546238978?midToken=AQEQ62GOpPIhgQ&trk=eml-b2_anet_digest_of_digests-hero-15-plain%7Etext%7Elink&trkEmail=eml-b2_anet_digest_of_digests-hero-15-plain%7Etext%7Elink-null-rh6a6%7Eipwwav8v%7Ept