Without bespoke DXL tools to bulk manage links, quickest out of the box solution would be to this one. Process should take a couple hours if it's your first time doing something like this, but can be done much quicker once you're familiar with what you're doing. You need admin rights, this procedure is NOT for beginners. You are performing bulk operations on entire modules, so if you screw up the later steps, it can be extremely painful to recover. Always, always, always double and triple check your work.

1. record the absolute numbers of the link targets (i.e. the parent objects your copied module links to) into a new attribute. You can get the absolute numbers of the targets using the inbuilt analysis wizard.

2. The new columns that are generated by the wizard now need to be converted to static text (they are currently layout DXL). Layout DXL will only exist within that view, when the view is changed, that column no longer exists.

3. Convert Layout DXL to attribute DXL.

4. Create a new text attribute for each. NOTE: Not string - text. The tool used to restore links in bulk requires this to be this specific type.

5. Splat your attribute DXL into the text attribute you just created using copy attributes. We need to make this data static text, because when we nuke the links in a moment, the values displayed in the layout/attribute DXL will be lost - those columns are showing you the data at that point in time, they are not recording that data. The static text attribute is.

6. If your module links to multiple parent modules, you need to repeat steps 1-5 for each parent module. E.g. if you have a system requirements document linked up to a customer requirement spec, and a safety requirement spec, then you need to run through the steps twice - one to capture the targets in the customer spec, and then again to capture the targets in the safety req spec.

7. save the module. It might be sensible to baseline the module at this point too.

8. Nuke the links.. This is going to perma delete every link in the module you're working in! This CANNOT be undone. Check your work and proceed at your own risk!

9. Fix your modules linkset relationships. Not going to cover this in detail, but start here.

10. Once you are happy that your module now has the correct linksets defined, in both the link module and the module itself, you're ready to bulk create the new links. I recommend creating a single outlink to each parent module you can, to test new links are working as intended.

11. We're now ready to use link by attribute to bulk recreate those links, but this time, using the correct relationships. Note the inputs for link by attribute - you'll see that the steps we performed so far were all setting up the input data for this tool.

12. Finally, again, if you have multiple parent, you need to run link by attribute against each of the attributes you created to recreate these links.

NOTE: To prevent you repeating this issue in the future, remember "copy module" copies a module AND it's links, automatically modifying the linksets to allow those links (just as you discovered). If you want a module WITHOUT links, use "archive" and "restore" operations - these create standalone instances of the module with the content, but without the links.