DB2: database hangs while trying to execute simple select query on specific table
I am not sure if I understand your problem. You say that the database hangs on a query, that means that all tables, views, etc, are blocked. However, you say that other tables are accessible, that means that the database is not hung, it is just an access to one table.

You used "db2 restart db", however it is for other things, for example when you need to restart the database once it has crashed, but I think your db has not crashed, just it is blocked.

I think your problem is a concurrency problem, the database has to be processing a big query on the table, putting an exclusive lock (or something similar) and the other queries cannot read the data with the current isolation level.

In order to see if this is the problem, try to get snapshots to see which table are accessed and check the lock list.

You can change the isolation level in the query, for example adding "WITH UR" at the end, if this isolation level is appropriated.

Other problems "could" be related to transaction logs (flush issue), busy or not enough agents, prefetchers issue, small bufferpool, expensive access plan. Well, you have to see the db2diag to have more clues about your problem.